Case with security, messages with inappropriate requests, alcohol during work: United States Secretary of Labor leaves, for several reasons.

The United States Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemerwill leave the Trump administration to take a role in the private sector, the White House announced this week.

The departure comes after several months of political and media pressure, in a context marked by allegations of misconduct in the workplace and abuse of power, and by a formal investigation conducted by the Department of Labor’s inspector general.

According to the agency, the investigation was opened in January and focuses on allegations that Chavez-DeRemer He may have maintained a relationship with a member of security, consumed alcohol during work and promoted official events to facilitate travel of personal interest.

Initially, the White House and the Department of Labor rejected the allegations as unfounded, but as new information emerged, the defense lost strength. Among the potentially most compromising elements of a report yet to be released will be, according to the North American press, text messages sent to younger female employees with requests deemed inappropriateallegedly involving Donald Trump’s own administration employee, but also her husband and even her father.

From what has been made public so far, the full content of the text messages has not been disclosed. But according to the report, there is a message in which Chavez-DeRemer asked an employee to bring wine to her hotel room and some employees were instructed by Chavez-DeRemer and a former deputy chief of staff to “pay attention” to the family of the new casualty of the Trump administration.

Republican sources close to the White House say these messages would have been decisive in precipitating the resignation. “The text messages were the last straw,” said a Republican close to the Trump administration, quoted by the newspaper, about the SMS reported by on Thursday.

The way in which the departure was announced also drew attention: unlike recent departures of other members of the executive, the communication was not made by President Donald Trump, but by a White House advisor — Steve Cheung, at .

Keith Sonderling, assistant secretary of Labor, will assume leadership of the conservancy on an interim basis.

This is already the third casualty in this second Trump Administration, following the dismissals of Internal Security and Justice.

Case with security, messages with inappropriate requests, alcohol during work: United States Secretary of Labor leaves, for several reasons.

The United States Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemerwill leave the Trump administration to take a role in the private sector, the White House announced this week.

The departure comes after several months of political and media pressure, in a context marked by allegations of misconduct in the workplace and abuse of power, and by a formal investigation conducted by the Department of Labor’s inspector general.

According to the agency, the investigation was opened in January and focuses on allegations that Chavez-DeRemer He may have maintained a relationship with a member of security, consumed alcohol during work and promoted official events to facilitate travel of personal interest.

Initially, the White House and the Department of Labor rejected the allegations as unfounded, but as new information emerged, the defense lost strength. Among the potentially most compromising elements of a report yet to be released will be, according to the North American press, text messages sent to younger female employees with requests deemed inappropriateallegedly involving Donald Trump’s own administration employee, but also her husband and even her father.

From what has been made public so far, the full content of the text messages has not been disclosed. But according to the report, there is a message in which Chavez-DeRemer asked an employee to bring wine to her hotel room and some employees were instructed by Chavez-DeRemer and a former deputy chief of staff to “pay attention” to the family of the new casualty of the Trump administration.

Republican sources close to the White House say these messages would have been decisive in precipitating the resignation. “The text messages were the last straw,” said a Republican close to the Trump administration, quoted by the newspaper, about the SMS reported by on Thursday.

The way in which the departure was announced also drew attention: unlike recent departures of other members of the executive, the communication was not made by President Donald Trump, but by a White House advisor — Steve Cheung, at .

Keith Sonderling, assistant secretary of Labor, will assume leadership of the conservancy on an interim basis.

This is already the third casualty in this second Trump Administration, following the dismissals of Internal Security and Justice.