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DEA agent got prostitute for Secret Service agent
Barack Obama with Secret Service agents in Tampa, FL. April 13, 2012.
Photographer: Joe Raedle
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Posted: 01/10/2013
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By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department says a U.S. drug agent arranged to hire a prostitute for one of the Secret Service agents involved in a Colombian prostitution scandal last year.
In a summary of its investigation dated Dec. 20, the department's inspector general says a Drug Enforcement Administration agent stationed in the seaside resort of Cartagena arranged for a prostitute to give a Secret Service agent a massage.
The report says the pair later had a sexual encounter and the DEA agent arranged payment for the woman.
The report says three DEA agents erased data from their government-issued Blackberry cellphones amid the investigation.
Thirteen Secret Service employees were entangled in the scandal over prostitution before a regional summit attended by President Barack Obama.
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