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WASHINGTON — Another Labor Department official has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly misusing taxpayer dollars on official travel — as an extensive watchdog probe of Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer rolls on, The Post can confirm.
Director of advance Melissa Robey was sidelined just days after the White House pressured Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff Jihun Han and deputy Rebecca Wright A person familiar with the probe, which is being conducted by the DOL Office of Inspector General, said Robey had expensed a multi-thousand-dollar limousine ride during a departmental excursion to North Dakota and turned in vouchers for excessive travel-related expenditures on other vehicles as well as hotel stays. Dozens of interviews conducted as part of IG Anthony D’Esposito’s inquiry into the Labor secretary and her top aides had uncovered evidence of Han and Wright creating a “hostile” workplace at department headquarters and squandering public money while on official trips, sources noted.Democrat Senate candidate's bizarre race rant earns the GOP's wrath: 'He is toast'Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s director of advance Melissa Robey was placed on administrative leave Wednesday, The New York Times first reported.On Jan. 16, a member of Chavez-DeRemer’s security detail was also placed on administrative leave after The Post firstAdditional complaints were submitted against Han and Wright during the investigation for exerting improper influence over junior staff, sources added.Inspector general interviews uncovered evidence of the secretary’s chief of staff Jihun Han and deputy Rebecca Wright creating a “hostile” workplace at department headquarters, per sources.The initial IG complaint also accused the secretary of having Han and Wright “make up” official trips to destinations she visited for personal reasons — including the ex-Oregon congresswoman’s home state; Arizona, where she has a second home with her anesthesiologist husband; and Las Vegas. Chavez-DeRemer engaged in unprofessional interactions with her alleged paramour during trips to Sin City last year, the complaint further alleged.Chavez-DeRemer, 57, and Wright spent five days in Palm Beach, Fla., during an America First Policy Institute event this past December and flouted ethics rules by not paying their own way for a dinner they shared at the junket, according to the IG complaint. The White House has defended Chavez-DeRemer, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Jan. 15 that President Trump “thinks that she’s doing a tremendous job at the Department of Labor on behalf of American workers.”Chavez-DeRemer’s personal attorney has said she “firmly denies any allegations of wrongdoing.”How Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei with a Blue Sparrow missile from spaceElisabeth Hasselbeck Stuns ‘The View’ Audience As She Calls Democrats “The Party of Masks”: “You Guys Forced Masks On Everybody in the United States”Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's director of advance Melissa Robey was placed on administrative leave Wednesday, The New York Times first reported.Inspector general interviews uncovered evidence of the secretary's chief of staff Jihun Han and deputy Rebecca Wright creating a"hostile" workplace at department headquarters, per sources.
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