US investigator quits over sex scandal

David Nieland, the Department of Homeland Security’s investigator who led an internal review of the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal, quietly resigned in August.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Nieland “was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute,” citing current and former department officials.

The investigator was seen leaving a building that was under surveillance for sex work in south Florida.

Following the incident, sheriff’s deputies in Broward County, Florida, interviewed a prostitute who said Nieland had paid her for sex.

The investigator with the DHS inspector general resigned from his job on Aug. 9 after he refused to answer some questions about the incident.

In a statement, a spokesman for the DHS’s inspector general confirmed the resignation, saying that department officials “became aware in early May of this year of an incident in Florida that involved one of our employees.”

Nieland was investigating allegations that Secret Service agents had paid for prostitutes ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Colombia in April 2012.

The Secret Service agents and military personnel got drunk and brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms.

In September 2012, the inspector general’s office released a report that described how 13 Secret Service agents and officers had “personal encounters with female Colombian nationals” before the US president’s arrival.

The scandal caused some employees of the Secret Service to lose their jobs.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/30/384133/us-investigator-resigns-over-sex-scandal/

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