Salacious details of ex-Labor Secs strip club visit revealed including relationship with bodyguard
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer maintained an inappropriate relationship with her bodyguard and ordered a member security detail to drop cash on “partially nude dancers” during an Oregon strip club visit, the department’s inspector general revealed in a report released Thursday.Chavez-DeRemer resigned in April, three months after The Post first-reported on the inspector general probe into her relationship with security guard Brian Sloan and allegations she abused her position as a top Trump administration official.“The OIG [Office of the Inspector General] concluded that a preponderance of the evidence substantiated multiple violations of DOL [Labor Department] policy,” the report stated.Chavez-DeRemer “developed and maintained an inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship with [Sloan] while he exercised supervisory and operational authority over her protective detail that was inconsistent with federal impartiality and preferential-treatment standards,” according to the report.She also “failed to comply with DOL policy prohibiting harassment in the workplace,” the report stated.The IG noted that there was not sufficient evidence “to establish that Chavez-DeRemer and [Sloan] engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.”The watchdog report also confirmed and detailed an April 2025 incident, first-reported by The Post in February, involving Chavez-DeRemer taking subordinates, including her bodyman, to an Oregon strip club.During the “off the record” trip to the “partially nude” establishment, Chavez-DeRemer “took money from her purse, gave the money to the driver [a member of security detail], and directed him to give it to the performer.”“When the agent resisted and sought guidance from [Sloan], [Sloan] instructed him to comply with Chavez-DeRemer’s requests,” the report stated.“Chavez-DeRemer then took additional money from her purse and asked the agent to drop the bills one by one onto the partially n...