Opinion: Is the White House Hard at Work Covering Up a Sex Scandal at the Labor Department?

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters The Department of Labor is the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace standards and setting the example for ethical conduct across America’s workforces. In the Trump administration, however, it is now engulfed in a widening ethics crisis. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is under investigation over allegations of misconduct, fraud and an “alcohol stash” found in her office, while her husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, has been banned from the department’s headquarters following allegations that he sexually harassed at least one female employee. (Dr. DeRemer has called the allegations “false.”) Read more at The Daily Beast.