Did Cheatle resign to hide something, or was it to avoid an investigation?

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This was a wild story in context to her leaving.
Ex-Secret Service Boss Kimberly Cheatle Faced $7 Million Lawsuit - Newsweek

 Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will no longer face a $7 million lawsuit since she resigned from the role.
 Two people investigated for alleged fraud, Boris Zavadovsky and Elena Dvoinik, named the director in a lawsuit filed July 11, three days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump which ultimately led to Cheatle standing down on July 23.
 
The suit, obtained by Newsweek, targets the Secret Service, its director, the Austrian police and others for defamation and invasion of privacy among other causes of action, as part of their long-running legal action against the U.S. and Austrian governments. Zavadovsky was allegedly a U.S. government employee at the time.

And what this boils down to is in this quote from the article,

 The latest filing in the case includes a redacted 2021 email with the subject of the 'USSS [United States Secret Service] and Beacon Hotel'. The email is listed as being the property of the Secret Service. In it, one person discussed Boris Zavadovsky's alleged forged hotel receipt from 2006. The person writing the email writes to another person to agree that the receipt is a poor-quality forgery that Zavadovsky allegedly forged on Microsoft Word.
 
The claim that contacts made by the Secret Service to hotels and others in America "were made by the United States Secret Service at the request of the Austrian police."
 
The pair claim that the Secret Service and other U.S agencies contacted hotels and other U.S companies "under the premise that they were 'conduct[ing] criminal investigations in the United States against 'criminals and swindlers Elena Dvoinik and Boris Zavadovsky.'"
 
They allegedly sought confirmation that the two plaintiffs "forged receipts, certificates, and other official documents in order to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, insurance companies, and Plaintiff Zavadovsky's employer, 'the U.S. Government.'

Some of these invoices, receipts, and certificates appear to have been discovered during a search.

Now as being the former head of the department, it would make sense for her name to be on this lawsuit but given that it would seem to be very similar to a scheme that was undertaken for Hunter Biden, one has to wonder if the USSS was being involved with tax fraud once again or was this involvement part of the investigation.

Now that she is gone, I bet this case will wilter in the wind as so many seem to do these days.