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Posted on 02/19/2026 2:50:13 PM PST by Miami Rebel
The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department’s headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The New York Times.
The women said Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, had touched them inappropriately at the Labor Department’s building on Constitution Avenue. One of the incidents, during working hours on the morning of Dec. 18, was recorded on office security cameras, the people said. The video showed Dr. DeRemer giving one of the women an extended embrace, and was reviewed as part of a criminal investigation.
In January, the women’s concerns about Dr. DeRemer, 57, were raised as part of an internal investigation by the department’s inspector general into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her senior staff, one of the people said.
On Jan. 24, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department filed a report about forced sexual contact in December at the Labor Department, according to their report, which was viewed by The Times.
The police report is the only one from the last three months associated with the Labor Department’s address, a police spokesman said, adding that the Police Department’s sexual assault unit is investigating.
After the women described the incidents to investigators, Dr. DeRemer was barred from entering the Labor Department’s premises, according to people familiar with the decision, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the allegations and ongoing investigations surrounding the department.
“If Mr. DeRemer attempts to enter, he is to be asked to leave,” a building restriction notice viewed by The Times said.
Dr. DeRemer, an anesthesiologist in Portland, Ore., who frequently visited his wife’s Washington offices, did not responded to a request for comment.
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Setup?
An extended embrace? Oh, the humanity! Was she hugging him back?
Any man that puts himself in a position to be accused is just stupid.
Early in my career, I mentored both men and women.
In the middle part of my career, I mentored men, but dropped all the women.
In the last stage of my career, I basically stopped talking to women in the workplace, except during team meetings in conference rooms.
Men should have nothing to do with women in the workplace.
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They seem to have this “long embrace” on video.
For the life of me, I cannot imagine touching anyone in the workplace these days. There is too much liability.
But, a hug is not exactly sexual assault.
Another Anti-Trump post by Miami Rebel.
So unexpected.
I work for a manufacturer of building supplies. Lumber yards are remarkably politically incorrect. We have a handful of female sales reps and they are all just one of the guys. Most of them greet me with a hug that they initiate.
The females in the office are a wholly different story. I avoid them as much as possible.
GREAT advice.
Yes, avoid.
It’s getting that way. But I can think of a way a male/female couple in cahoots with each other, could “fake” harassment, and the woman get get big bucks lawsuit money, guy eventually gets fired and she quits and they share the loot.... wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t been done already...
Perhaps.
Indeed.
At all costs.
I might argue that point with you. My research includes having been “hugged” by a man who was trying to entertain himself without my permission. He was standing behind me, for the record. I am embarrassed just writing this. It was in public, in a line waiting to check in at a car dealership. This man was the husband of a friend and I could never be in his presence without an escort after that.
“Nothing to do with women in workplace??
Met my wife there some 40 years ago (beats bars are dating apps)
Sure when it really got serious we went separate jobs and companies - but I don’t regret a day for pursuing that contact.
LOL!
This is all the Democraps got - their Treason Pedophile Media attacking various members of Trump’s team.
Garbage humans in the press. Never a word about Joe “Showers With Ashley” Bribe ‘Em. They’re pathetic piles of lying dogsqueeze.
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