New Facts: OIG reports serious misconduct by Chavez-DeRemer

The Labor Department’s inspector general found Lori Chavez-DeRemer drank during working hours and kept alcohol on federal property, both barred by department policy. It also found staff in her office drank on duty. She resigned in April after roughly a year as secretary.

The watchdog also found that on a personal trip she made a staffer go to a strip club and told a member of her security detail to place money on a dancer. It concluded she maintained an inappropriately close relationship with a bodyguard, though investigators did not find sufficient evidence of a romantic or sexual relationship. The findings formally substantiate the alcohol‑policy violations.

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