A trustee confirmed eight years in the past that Pete Hegseth “voluntarily resigned” as president of a veterans advocacy group, in accordance with a duplicate of a letter solely obtained by The Publish, denying swirling allegations that the protection secretary-designee was compelled out resulting from alcohol abuse, sexual impropriety and monetary mismanagement.
Involved Veterans for America trustee Randy Lair in a Jan. 16, 2016, missive wrote that “it was important to set the record straight given what appears to be a very personal attack against Pete and his military service.”
“The truth is Pete resigned his position as CEO of Concerned Veterans for America as a result of a difference of opinion as to the future of the organization and so that he could focus on other endeavors, including his relationship with Fox News,” Lair mentioned.
“Pete was not terminated by the organization and, in fact, we at CVA worked with him through this difficult decision and mutually agreed the end of 2015 was the best timing for both parties,” he added.
The CVA letter was meant to handle an “unsolicited email” that had been forwarded to Fox Information that included “a very personal attack against Pete and his military service.”
It additionally seems to straight contradict a whistleblower report and different allegations from Hegseth’s tenure at CVA printed Sunday by the New Yorker, through which ex-employees alleged the previous vets group president had abused funds and been “totally sloshed” at a number of of the group’s occasions.
Nameless former colleagues, who’ve since been contradicted by a ex-senior adviser who spoke on-the-record with The Publish, additionally claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s Pentagon decide as soon as even took co-workers out for an evening at a strip joint in Louisiana in November 2014 — and tried to bop on stage himself.
