article_snippet.sent: a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct describes not one or two isolated incidents, but literally dozens of parties with prostitutes,' Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings said at the hearing, where lawmakers grilled DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart.
article_snippet.sent: a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct said 10 agents - an assistant regional director and nine special agents - had alleged sex parties on government-leased property and used taxpayer money to pay for the prostitutes.
article_snippet.sent: One special agent was cleared of all wrongdoing, a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct said.
article_snippet.sent: None of 10 agents - an assistant regional director and nine special agents - was named in a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct.
article_snippet.sent: The DEA declined to comment.
article_snippet.sent: a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct cited 'repeated allegations of DEA Special Agents ... patronizing prostitutes and frequenting a brothel while in an overseas posting.'
article_snippet.sent: a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct came in the wake of a prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2012 that damaged the agency's straitlaced reputation.
article_snippet.sent: Where there was alleged high-risk sexual misdeeds, security agency personnel often were not told 'until long after security agency personnel occurred or were never informed, even though such behavior presents significant security risks,' a DEA report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing on the misconduct said.
article_snippet.sent: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz called the allegations regarding the DEA agents 'stunning' and urged action.
article_snippet.sent: Inspectors also criticized the FBI and DEA for initially refusing to provide unredacted information requested, and then providing information that was "still incomplete.
article_snippet.sent: Department of Justice spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said Department of Justice is already working with the agencies 'to ensure a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment and misconduct is enforced and that incidents are properly reported.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Instead of firing or prosecuting agents, DEA treated prostitution cases as 'local management issue' and suspended prostitution cases for no more than 14 days .