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华盛顿讯——一名联邦法官周二认定，亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克、前国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆以及其他特朗普政府高级官员参与了一场协调一致的运动，旨在散布关于一名前联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）官员的虚假信息，并诋毁她的人品。
美国治安法官威廉·菲茨帕特里克谴责特朗普政府的行为是“令人发指的”，称其针对玛丽·科曼斯的行动“毫无正当理由地在职业上和人身上攻击了一名政府官员”。
科曼斯是一名职业公务员，最近担任FEMA首席财务官，直至2025年2月被无理由解雇。
尽管科曼斯被告知，她被解雇是行使总统罢免行政官员权力的结果，但国土安全部发布的新闻稿却虚假指控她“绕过”机构负责人，为非法移民在纽约市豪华酒店支付“离谱”费用。特朗普政府还指控她违反了特朗普总统第二任期首日签署的一项行政命令，该命令要求联邦机构暂停向为非法入境美国移民提供服务的非政府组织提供资金。
但根据法庭记录，向州和地方政府继续付款的决定——包括两次支付给纽约市的款项——是由国土安全部和FEMA的高级官员做出的，并得到了政府效率部（DOGE）员工的批准。该部门是由马斯克监督的削减成本专项工作组。正是因为得到了这一批准，科曼斯才被要求继续向州和地方政府付款。
但法庭发现，国土安全部和包括诺姆、马斯克以及诺姆的高级助手科里·勒万多斯基在内的高级政府官员，针对科曼斯发表了一系列他们明知是虚假的言论。
“这些事实证明，包括时任国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆和埃隆·马斯克在内的高级政府官员，发起了一场协调一致的公关运动，以诋毁科曼斯女士的个人和职业声誉，”菲茨帕特里克写道。“令本法庭难以理解的是，这些官员竟然选择动用联邦政府的权力，对付一位有着无可挑剔的公共服务记录的普通雇员。”
作为针对科曼斯的抹黑运动的一部分，时任政府特殊雇员并监督DOGE的马斯克在X平台上分享了她的照片，并虚假指控科曼斯所谓的“犯罪行为”，即涉嫌向纽约市酒店拨付数百万美元。法庭表示，马斯克知道，或者本应知道，他的DOGE员工已经批准了这些付款。菲茨帕特里克还指出，这条附有科曼斯照片和对其行为虚假描述的社交媒体帖子“显然是为了让她感到恐惧”。
“发布科曼斯女士的照片没有任何合法的政府利益可言，不过是国家批准的恐吓行为，”菲茨帕特里克写道。
法官还表示，诺姆和勒万多斯基向极右翼阴谋论者劳拉·卢默提供了关于科曼斯的虚假信息，指望她将这些信息传播给她的社交媒体粉丝。
“仅凭虚假陈述，高级政府官员就发起了一场预谋运动，诋毁科曼斯女士——一名无党派的职业公职人员——的个人和职业声誉，”菲茨帕特里克认定。“他们的意图是尽可能广泛地传播关于科曼斯女士的虚假和贬损信息。”
菲茨帕特里克的这一裁决源于一场澄清名誉的程序，该程序是在一名联邦法官于7月裁定科曼斯被解雇时未获得正当程序后启动的。
科曼斯于2025年7月提起诉讼，对自己被解职提出质疑，并辩称国土安全部和FEMA通过虚假指控她向纽约市酒店拨付数百万美元，损害了她的声誉。
法官表示，特朗普政府官员对科曼斯提出的所有指控——包括她参与犯罪活动、滥用联邦资金以及“洗白”“被禁止的资金”——都不属实。
“针对科曼斯女士的攻击完全基于虚假信息，许多政府官员在发表这些指控时就知道它们是不真实的，”菲茨帕特里克说。“不顾真相，也不考虑对科曼斯女士个人和职业造成的影响，政府官员利用他们接触大众媒体的渠道，传播虚假信息。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系国土安全部以及马斯克和诺姆的律师置评。
Judge finds Elon Musk, Kristi Noem engaged in premeditated campaign to smear ex-FEMA official
2026-10-15T16:25:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: October 15, 2026 / 4:26 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday found that billionaire Elon Musk and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as other senior Trump administration officials, engaged in a coordinated campaign to spread false information about a former FEMA official and impugn her integrity.
U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick condemned the Trump administration for what he said was “outrageous” conduct targeting Mary Comans, who he said was “professionally targeted and personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason.”
Comans, a career civil servant, was most recently the chief financial officer at FEMA until she was fired in February 2025 without cause.
While Comans was told that her firing was an exercise of the president’s power to remove executive officials, the Department of Homeland Security published a press release that falsely accused her of “circumventing” agency leaders to make “egregious” payments to New York City for luxury hotels for undocumented migrants. The Trump administration also accused her of violating an executive order signed by President Trump on the first day of his second term that directed federal agencies to pause funding to nongovernmental organizations providing services to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
But the decision to continue payments to state and local governments, including two issued to New York City, was made by senior officials at DHS and FEMA, and was approved by employees with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the cost-cutting task force that was overseen by Musk, according to court records. Because of that approval, Comans was told to continue the payments to the state and local governments.
Still, DHS and senior administration officials, including Noem, Musk and Corey Lewandowski, who served as a top aide to Noem, made a series of statements about Comans that they knew were false, the court found.
“These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans,” Fitzpatrick wrote. “For reasons unfathomable to this Court, officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service.”
As part of its campaign targeting Comans, Musk, who served as a special government employee and oversaw DOGE, shared a photo of her on X and falsely accused Comans of engaging in “criminal action” by allegedly funneling millions of dollars to hotels in New York City. The court said Musk knew, or should’ve known, that his DOGE employees approved the payments. Fitzpatrick also said the social media post with Comans’ photo and false characterization of her actions “was clearly intended to make her afraid.”
“Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation,” Fitzpatrick wrote.
The judge also said that Noem and Lewandowski provided false information to Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, about Comans with the expectation that she would disseminate it to her social media followers.
“Armed only with false statements, high-ranking government officials undertook a premeditated campaign to impugn the personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans, a nonpartisan, career public servant,” Fitzpatrick found. “Their intent was to disseminate false and derogatory information about Ms. Comans as widely as possible.”
The decision from Fitzpatrick stemmed from a name-clearing proceeding that was conducted after a federal judge ruled in July that Comans was fired without due process.
Comans had filed a lawsuit in July 2025 that challenged her removal and argued that DHS and FEMA harmed her reputation by falsely accusing her of funneling millions of dollars to New York City for the hotels.
The judge said all of the accusations leveled against Comans by Trump administration officials, including that she engaged in criminal activity, misspent federal funds and laundered “forbidden funding,” were not true.
“The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the accusations were untrue at the time they were made,” Fitzpatrick said. “With no regard for the truth and with no consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information.”
CBS News has reached out to DHS and to attorneys for Musk and Noem for comment.
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