He had an affair with a customer - possibly a spy - who was pretty openly flouting US export control rules while getting the Treasury Secretary to run interference for him.

The affairs being the headline are doing a lot of work to keep focus off of the much more legally fraught issues which may be actual big boy crimes. He would have been in a pile of shit and being forced out regardless of how many employees he slept with.

I don't know. Personally I find it hard to simply trust "my sources said", I usually require a little bit of hard evidence to be convinced. There could be many reasons someone gave up fighting.

Again, coming from a different society where media is full of lies, I am wondering if your journalists are really that much better.

He's obviously had affairs incl with employees etc. so the resignation would have to come either way. But there's such a thing as selective leaking to the press, for example initially claiming she's a spy and now after he's gone, wait maybe she's not a spy.