Ex-Kohls CEO posted LinkedIn video of lover 3 months before scandal broke: No wonder you got exposed

Three months ago, ousted Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan posted a video on LinkedIn of the glamorous retail guru with whom he disastrously mixed business and romance — a social-media goof that may have helped spark his getting fired this week, The Post has learned.The 51-year-old Buchanan – reportedly axed on Thursday over a “highly unusual multimillion-dollar contract” that involved his 44-year-old lover, Chandra Holt – reposted on LinkedIn a video produced by Holt to promote her five month-old coffee startup, IncrediBrew.The video shows a coiffed Holt in a white turtleneck, sitting in front of an electric fireplace while extolling the benefits of collagen infused coffee.“For those of you over the age of 30 and have not discovered collagen, I would highly recommend it.It is amazing for hair, skin and nails as well as bone and joint health,” Holt says in the video.The fact that Buchanan had not taken down the post on Thursday afternoon — hours after the scandal broke — shocked some industry insiders.“Can’t believe he still has her on his LinkedIn page,” one retail executive told The Post.One LinkedIn user likewise commented on Buchanan’s post, writing, “Dayum bro Ashley Buchanan no wonder you got exposed, you repos[t]ing this.”Buchanan appeared to have taken down his LinkedIn profile altogether on Friday.

Kohl’s, meanwhile, disclosed it had fired Buchanan for cause on Thursday morning — but didn’t remove his profile from its website until late afternoon.“Ordinarily if you fire someone you don’t have a glowing bio of our CEO at 3 p.m.,” said Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor who now specializes in employment law and white collar crime for Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner LLP.“It’s evidence that Kohl’s was moving very quickly,” Epner said.“If they had time to implement this, someone would have gone through and removed him from the website.”Epner said he couldn’t speculate on what tipped off Kohl’s except t...