br According to the Office of Special Counsel, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly violated federal law in February this year when he instructed a crowd of people to vote for Donald Trump. The OSC said in a letter that O’Rielly violated the Hatch Act when he told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference to “make sure President Trump gets re-elected." The Hatch Act, which was passed back in 1939, forbids federal employees from "engaging in partisan political activity while on the job.