A former Government Services Administration official had sex in both his Washington, D.C., office and on the roof of the agency’s headquarters, according to an internal investigation.
According to a written summary of an investigation by the inspector general of the GSA obtained by NBC News4, former associate GSA administrator Brennan Hart violated federal policies on a night when he consumed alcohol in the agency headquarters and had sex with a White House staffer.
The report says that Hart took the staffer into the agency’s headquarters on July 1, 2017, a Saturday, and had sex with her. The report said Hart admitted that he poured drinks from a bottle of vodka that he kept inside his desk. The name of the White House staffer was redacted.
“He said their sexual activity began in the Administrator suite area and culminated with oral sex on the rooftop of the Central Office,” the report states, adding that Hart “stated this occurred on only one occasion.”
Hart stopped work with the GSA in March 2018, around the same time the report was sent to then-White House counsel Don McGahn.
Former acting GSA administrator Timothy Horne, who led the agency in 2017, told investigators that he also drank alcohol after work hours and “when no one else was around.” He reportedly acknowledged he violated federal rules by doing so.
The current administrator, Emily Murphy, told investigators in 2018 that she allowed immediate staff to consume alcohol in her office after business hours on Fridays, but that she was unaware of the government’s formal approval process allowing alcohol consumption.
“GSA holds all employees to the highest ethical standards and takes appropriate actions to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations,” the agency said in a statement, adding that it “does not tolerate inappropriate use of alcohol in the workplace or any violation of government regulations regarding alcohol.”
“Further, GSA does not tolerate the misuse of government property by any GSA employee,” the statement reads.
