White House aide Dan Scavino's wife files for divorce: report

Carolyn McAtee Cerbin | USA TODAY

The wife of White House social media director Dan Scavino Jr. has filed for divorce, according to HuffPost.

Jennifer Scavino filed for divorce in Dutchess County, N.Y., in mid-January, according to the report. New York keeps divorce records under seal so not much else has been revealed.

The couple, married since 2000, have two sons and have a home in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. The Scavinos filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after racking up medical bills related to Jennifer Scavino's chronic Lyme Disease, the Daily Beast reported.

Scavino met Donald Trump in 1990 when he was a teenage caddie and bag room attendant at Briarcliff Manor Club, which Trump later purchased and renamed Trump National Golf Club-Westchester. Scavino rose through the ranks to become the executive vice president and general manager at the golf club, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported.

After a brief time working outside of the Trump Organization, Scavino returned to lead candidate Trump's social media operation in 2015 and eventually to direct President Trump's social media accounts.

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This is the second divorce announcement to hit Trump's orbit in a week.

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Scavino was reprimanded in June 2017 for violating the Hatch Act, the federal law that prohibits members of the executive branch from engaging in some forms of political activity, the Office of Special Counsel announced.

On April 1, 2017, Scavino tweeted that Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan was a "major liability." Amash, a libertarian Republican, had helped block a vote on legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act because he believed it left too much of Obama's signature health care law intact.

"#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary," Scavino wrote from his personal handle, @DanScavino.

.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability.#TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary. — Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 1, 2017

Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained because Scavino's Twitter account displayed a photo of Scavino standing in the Oval Office and his header photo displayed President Trump giving a speech behind a lectern with the presidential seal, which CREW said violated ethics rules.

Scavino was counseled by the Office of the White House Counsel on the Hatch Act.

Contributing: Jessica Estepa. Follow Carolyn McAtee Cerbin on Twitter: @carolyncerbin