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Deborah Gore Dean is a former United States federal employee, convicted in the infamous HUD scandal during the Ronald Reagan presidency.

Gore was a Georgetown socialite and the niece of onetime Maryland GOP leader Louise Gore.

Between 1982-1987, Gore worked for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

It has been alleged that she used her family and social connections to get an important promotion at HUD, as in July 1984, she was promoted to Executive Assistant to HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce, and in 1987, she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to become an Assistant Secretary of HUD. Prior to her HUD promotion, Dean was a 28 year-old short-time staff member in the Reagan presidential campaign, her only other experience being tending bar.

In the spring of 1989, the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported apparent mismanagement of a HUD program aimed at upgrading substandard housing for low-income tenants. According to the Inspector General, top Department officials had, from 1984 to 1989, allocated hundreds of millions of dollars of program funds on an informal, undocumented and discretionary basis. It was alleged that HUD had lent money to favored Republican land developers to finance the renovation of homes for middle-class people, rather than for the poor people that the "Section 8" program had been intended to assist.

On October 26, 1993, a jury convicted Dean of three counts of conspiracy to defraud the federal government, one count of having accepted an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and four counts of engaging in a scheme to conceal material facts. The district court sentenced Dean to two concurrent terms of twenty-one months' confinement on the first two conspiracy counts and fined Dean $2,500 on each of those counts. On each of the remaining counts, the court sentenced Dean to twenty-one months' confinement, to run concurrently with each other and with the sentences imposed under the first two conspiracy counts.

Dean, who had became an antiques dealer in Washington, D.C., stayed out of jail through appeals (appealing all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States) until 2002, when she was resentenced to six months of home confinement.

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