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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport: DEA Agents Allegedly Hosted Cartel-Funded 'Sex Parties' With Prostitutes
WASHINGTON -- Drug Enforcement Administration agents stationed abroad attended "sex parties" that were allegedly funded with money from drug cartels, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday.
The report, from the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General, discloses that seven DEA agents had admitted to attending parties with prostitutes, and that they had been suspended for between two and 10 days as a result. The report focuses on the handling of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct at several federal law enforcement agencies under the Justice Department's umbrella.
"Although some of the DEA agents participating in these parties denied it, the information in the case file suggested they should have known the prostitutes in attendance were paid with cartel funds," the report states.
The Inspector General officials who compiled the report said they were "particularly troubled" by allegations about the "sex parties" taking place "over a period of several years" while the agents were stationed in an overseas office. ..............(more)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/dea-sex-parties_n_6947132.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
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Report: DEA Agents Allegedly Hosted Cartel-Funded 'Sex Parties' With Prostitutes (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2015
OP
most people would've been suspended from their jobs from between two and 10 forevers..
frylock
Mar 2015
#3
Impossible. Law enforcement are universally good and corruption does not exist.
RedCappedBandit
Mar 2015
#4
ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. What kind of a professional would want to work in such a sordid culture? nt
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)2. And the CIA supplied a generous supply of coke
and recorded the evening to blackmail the DEA agents for latter usage.
frylock
(34,825 posts)3. most people would've been suspended from their jobs from between two and 10 forevers..
but not these assholes.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)4. Impossible. Law enforcement are universally good and corruption does not exist.