WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog on Thursday faulted the Drug Enforcement Administration over allegations that agents attended sex parties with prostitutes while stationed overseas.
The Justice Department inspector general report examines the department’s handling of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations from 2009 to 2012.
The report chronicles inappropriate sexual behavior — unwanted advances, sex between training instructors and students and relationships between a supervisor and subordinate — involving employees of federal law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department. Those include the FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
One section of the report recounts allegations that DEA agents attended sex parties with prostitutes, funded by local drug cartels, in a foreign county. The DEA issued suspensions ranging from two days to 10 days, and one agent was cleared of wrongdoing.
