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Secret Service inquiry turns to El Salvador trip last year

Reports suggest scandal may not be so isolated

By Alicia A. Caldwell

 |  Associated Press  

  April 27, 2012

Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday that it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Obama’s visit last year to El Salvador. The disclosure came not long after the Homeland Security secretary assured skeptical senators that the recent prostitution scandal in Colombia appeared to be an isolated incident.

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