Overview
- MS NOW reported Thursday that at least three Equal Employment Opportunity complaints accuse Lori Chavez-DeRemer of running a toxic workplace and retaliating against women who reported her husband.
- Two young staffers allege Dr. Shawn DeRemer touched them without consent at Labor Department offices late last year, and one filed a December police report that sources say is partly supported by security video.
- The Metropolitan Police Department later closed its inquiry finding no evidence of a crime, yet it barred Shawn DeRemer from entering the agency.
- The Labor Department’s inspector general opened a separate investigation into the secretary and senior aides after a complaint, a step that can lead to administrative findings inside the agency.
- Lawyers for Chavez-DeRemer and her husband deny wrongdoing, and an Office of Congressional Workplace Rights report lists a $98,650 settlement tied to her former Hill office without saying who was involved or what was alleged.