Fallout within the U.S. Secret Service continues to rage on after Donald Trump’s near-assassination last month.
The protection agency said Friday it’d placed “multiple” agents on leave as part of its probe into how a 20-year-old nursing home worker was able to come within inches of assassinating a former president, MSNBC reported.
Among those reportedly taken off duty was Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the agency’s Pittsburgh field office. MSNBC reported that “five or six” agents in total were placed on leave as “disciplinary action.”
It’s unclear how long Rojek and his colleagues will remain on leave. Federal employees on administrative leave typically still receive pay and benefits, but that can reportedly vary by agency and situation.
The decision comes weeks after the Secret Service’s director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned on July 23. That concluded a tumultuous ten-day period where she tried to shift blame for the rally disaster onto local cops.
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