Wednesday, April 18, 2012

U.S. Secret Service Scandal Continues To Grow



'It Was $800 But He Only Gave Me $30': Colombian Prostitute Speaks Out About Secret Service Agent As Three Are FIRED Over Sex Scandal

* 24-year-old high-end escort says she was eventually paid $225 for the evening
* Says she is 'nervous' about retaliation by the U.S. government
and does not want the agent to be reprimanded
* Claims men were drinking heavily
* Several of the 11 men sent home are married; two are supervisors
* All agents have been suspended pending investigation
* Some under investigation for possible drug use
* Incident 'occurred before President's arrival for Summit of the Americas'
* More than 10 U.S. military personnel involved in the incident

A Colombian prostitute at the centre of the ongoing Secret Service sex scandal has broken her silence.

Speaking about the tawdry episode that has seen three agents ousted from their posts after a wild night of partying in Cartagena last week, a 24-year-old high-end escort claims she was offered $30 - a fraction of her $800 fee - for a night with one of the men.

'I tell him, 'Baby, my cash money,'' she recalled in an interview with The New York Times, recounting a heated exchange that has wrecked the agency's reputation and become an election year embarrassment for President Barack Obama.

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More News On the U.S. Secret Service Scandal

3 of the Secret Service agents booted as tawdry details emerge in hooker scandal -- New York Daily News
3 agents out in wake of Secret Service scandal -- AP
Secret Service says three employees to leave over Colombia scandal -- Reuters
Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Claims 3 Agents -- FOX News
3 in Scandal Being Forced Out of Secret Service, Officials Say -- New York Times
Three secret service agents linked to Colombian escort scandal leave agency -- The Guardian
Three Secret Service agents out in prostitution scandal -- MSNBC
Scandal claims jobs of three Secret Service agents -- AFP
Secret Service Pushing Out 3 Members Amid Colombia Scandal -- CNN

Congressional Oversight Leaders Say Secret Service Agents Brought Prostitutes into Contact With Sensitive Security Information -- ABC News
New low ‘blow’: Coke eyed at Secret Service ho-down -- New York Post
AP source: No drugs found in agents' hotel rooms -- Boston.com/AP
Military investigator to probe Colombia scandal -- Marine Times
Secret Service scandal takes sharp political turn -- CBS
Secret Service scandal raises question of macho culture, women agents -- Laura Smith-Spark, CNN

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