U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from the department’s headquarters after allegations \u200bby at least two female staff members that he had sexually assaulted them, the New York Times reported on \u200bThursday, citing people familiar with the decision and a police report. The \u200bwomen told department officials that \u2060Chavez-DeRemer’s husband Shawn DeRemer, an anesthesiologist, had touched them inappropriately at the department’s building on Constitution Avenue in \u200bWashington, according to \u200cthe Times. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department on January 24 filed a police report that said a complainant reported a sexual contact against her will \u200bat the Labor Department’s Constitution Avenue building on December 18, a copy of the police report seen by Reuters showed. Asked by Reuters about the report, a police \u200cspokesman said the department’s \u200csexual assault unit \u200bwas investigating the incident but did not confirm whether it was the same incident involving DeRemer. The
spokesman said the police report was the only one associated with the Labor Department’s address from the last three \u200bmonths. The Labor Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. DeRemer could not be reached for a comment. The New York Times said one of the incidents \u200boccurred on the morning of December 18 and was recorded on office security cameras. The video showed DeRemer giving one of the women an extended embrace. It was reviewed as part of a criminal investigation, the paper said. DeRemer was barred from entering the department premises after \u200cwomen described the incidents to investigators, the newspaper said. The women’s concerns about DeRemer were raised in January as part of an internal probe by the department’s inspector \u2060general into alleged misconduct by \u200bChavez-DeRemer and her senior staff, the Times said. The New York Post was first to report about the investigation at the Labor Department that had forced several members in Chavez-DeRemer’s inn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from the department’s headquarters after allegations \u200bby at least two female staff members that he had sexually assaulted them, the New York Times reported on \u200bThursday, citing people familiar with the decision and a police report. The \u200bwomen told department officials that \u2060Chavez-DeRemer’s husband Shawn DeRemer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n