Colombia prostitute reveals $800 cash row with US agent

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A woman at the centre of the US prostitution scandal in Colombia asked for $800 (£500) to spend the night with a US agent, the New York Times reports.

The woman - who describes herself as an escort, not a prostitute - told the paper the agent reneged on their deal, instead offering only $30.

That sparked a row that blew the lid off a night that saw 20 women taken back to the US hotel in Cartagena.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17773246

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Stiffing prostitutes ain't smart.

In any sense of the term "stiff."

[bluedigger]

2. What a bunch of cheap pricks!

That's not even half their food per diem.

That's really embarrassing.

[pscot]

3. As the old joke says

"How do you make a hormone?"

"Don't pay her."

[4th law of robotics]

4. Sounds like he tried to haggle after the fact. Bad form

offer her the 30 bucks prior. Settle on some amount in the middle, then have the sex.

[musiclawyer]

5. If prostitution is legal there

What's the big deal, unless they were paying for services on duty, or bringing the ladies within a supposedly secure perimeter. Did either of those things happen?

[shraby]

6. The premises they brought the women to were their hotel rooms..which had

security information in them concerning the president's visit to the country. What part of that don't you understand? That was top sensitive info.

[tkmorris]

8. Security clearances

If you have a security clearance ANY form of adultery is verboten, prostitute or not, as it opens you up as a potential blackmail target. When you hold a clearance like this as a condition of employment there are a great number of things which may be technically legal for most people to do but which will get your clearance yanked immediately.

[Bacchus4.0]

9. yep, unless you are willing to live a squeaky clean lifestyle, a job with SS

isn't for you. It has nothing to do with prostitution in Colombia. It has everything to do with representing the country, and not embarrasing the President and the country like they did.

[Meiko]

7. WTH!

$800.00 ,what is that in Columbia? about $5000.00 She must have been something.

[rocktivity]

10. 1.00 USD = 1,776.50 COP (Colombian Pesos)*

Last edited Fri Sep 18, 2015, 04:07 PM - Edit history (1)

30.00 USD = 53,295.00 COP

800.00 USD = 1,421,200.00 COP

Maybe there was language barrier. Or maybe she was negotiationing on behalf of all twenty of the women.

Still, there's something fishy about the whole thing -- am I supposed to believe that this is some gigantic coincidence that at least a dozen of our Secret Service agents were that easily corrupted? I'd like to know a bit more about these women...


rocktivity

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[Old Troop]

11. Reminds me of many years ago in San Juan.

Another soldier and I got out of our rental car in a parking garage and started walking out. A women next to a very nice sports car called hey and my buddy, thinking she had a car problem walked over. He asked her what was up and she said that he could have a "date" with her for $150. He looked at her for a moment and replied, you're very beautiful and desirable, but I can't think of anything either of us could do that would be worth $150.

[dipsydoodle]

12. I can think of something

Teaching me to play the banjo in an hour flat.

[polichick]

14. HA! Good answer.

[bathroommonkey76]

13. Does she look like an $800 escort? LOL

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1064311.1334861772!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1064281!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg


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More here:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/secret-service-colombian-hooker-scandal-escort-explosive-scandal-article-1.1064287

[Tax Man]

15. the agent must have been a gop'er -

wanting to do everything on the cheap