Cartagena fallout hangs over Secret Service issues
(CNN) -- Echoes of the 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, lie at the root of the turmoil that has upended the Secret Service, prompting the ouster of its director in the wake of security lapses.
One link to the White
House, involving a former unpaid intern, the son of an Obama donor, who
was investigated for possible involvement in the scandal, has caused
internal complaints about the fairness of the 2012 probe.
The scandal eventually led to the ouster of eight employees, and
discipline against a handful of others at the Secret Service. However,
in the years since, current and former employees, as well as
congressional investigators, have complained that White House links to
the episode weren't properly investigated, perhaps for political
reasons, and that the punishment against Secret Service was too severe.
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