With her agency embroiled in scandal, Michele Leonhart, the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is expected to step down as soon as Tuesday, a U.S. official familiar with the matter tells NPR’s Carrie Johnson.
WASHINGTON – With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal – in the same country.
Heroin is killing more people than people in New York City, highlighting a comeback for the opiate in recent years that has many in the US worried.
Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.