Washington – Secret Service: 3 Employees Leave Agency In Wake Of Colombia Scandal

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    EPA File -  US President Barack Obama (back) walks across the South Lawn of the White House, behind a Secret Service agent, in Washington DC, USA, 18 April 2012. Washington – The Secret Service says three employees are out of the agency in the wake of a prostitution scandal in Colombia.

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    Of the three workers forced out in the scandal, one is a supervisor who was allowed to retire. Another is a supervisor who has been designated for removal for cause, which requires that the employee be given 30 days’ notice and a chance to respond with the help of a lawyer; and a third employee, not a supervisor, has quit.

    The agency says its investigation into allegations of misconduct by 11 agents is in its early stages and is still ongoing. The remaining eight agents are on administrative leave.

    Secret Service has been investigating charges that the agents brought prostitutes back to their hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, last week.


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    11 years ago

    These customers of the world’s oldest profession are unfit to wear the badge of the US Secret Service.

    11 years ago

    I don’t get what the big deal is about this. So what if they did what they did? Not the end of the world.