This term denotes a secretary who is assigned to assist the person of a high dignitary, such as a prince or statesman, or high cleric, or of a wealthy person or celebrity, so a return to the more influential origins of the word secretary, and has emained mainly a man's job.
The Secretary informed the parties to the Knop action that she was conducting an investigation, that she might bring suit, and that she would not be bound by any private settlement in Knop.
When the Secretary chooses to bring suit to remedy violations of ERISA, her interests in obtaining any and all relief authorized by the Act are independent of, and transcend, the interests of any private party, including those of the particular plan or plans to which all or part of a monetary recovery might be paid.
The Secretary has always contemplated that any monetary relief ordered as a result of her suit and payable to the Charter ESOP would be offset by amounts paid to the plan as a result of the Knop action.