Any driving issue would prevent you from having any type of clearance. You passed a soft background check, hardly in depth. If they went in depth, you would never be able to explain away your multiple negative interactions with law enforcement.
I think this is right, Soft Check. Either he doesn't know the difference or (once again) he's lying about whether it was more based on his own deliberate assumptions about what he thinks must have occurred because of the type of company, but not real facts.
I think also that for some of the checks, even the ones tending to be more strict, like with everything else during Covid, standards were relaxed to fill spots and things were dug into a lot less. I don't think it is a coincidence that the job disappeared after a year. Even if it was a one year term position, once someone had passed clearances and is in the door contractors don't want to start from scratch and there's usually too many spots to fill than people.
There's something not being said about the leaving the job thing. It was work from home, something he could still do with the move. Seemed easy, why give it up? Not re-upped because standards were tightening or because of some clear personality issue revealed (asshole/liar) or because his performance was shit. Covering up the truth with the not candid answer that the one year term position ended.
So I'll add this to the unanswered questions list:
1) Why did you have a
parole probation officer?
2) Where did you get the idea for crockpot forever stew/chili?
3) Why don't you repost the "real" pool video?
4) Why did you leave your job?
