U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from the department’s headquarters after allegations by at least two female staff members that he had sexually assaulted them, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the decision and a police report.
The women told department officials that Chavez-DeRemer’s husband Shawn DeRemer, an anesthesiologist, had touched them inappropriately at the department’s building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, according to the Times.
Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department on January 24 filed a police report that said a complainant reported a sexual contact against her will at the Labor Department’s Constitution Avenue building on December 18, a copy of the police report.
a police spokesman said the department’s sexual assault unit was 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 months.