Lawsuit Seeks To Uncover Documents On Notorious Obama-era Scandal

A new federal lawsuit may uncover what really happened in the Obama administration’s notorious Colombian prostitution scandal.

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced in a statement that “it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the Obama-era 2012 U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1:26-cv-01555)).”

“The Secret Service’s refusal to turn over records about communications with the Obama White House raises serious transparency concerns. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit aims to uncover exactly what Secret Service officials were telling the White House during one of the most embarrassing security scandals in modern presidential history,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch reports it “sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Secret Service failed to respond to a February 19, 2026, FOIA request for “all emails and text messages sent between officials in the U.S. Secret Service and officials in the Office of the White House Counsel, including but not limited to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, relating to a controversy involving Secret Service officials and other U.S. government employees using the services of prostitutes during an Obama visit to Cartagena, Colombia in 2012.”

Judicial Watch notes a “September 26, 2012, report from Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, prepared in response to queries from several senators, found:”

[W]e identified 13 USSS [Secret Service] employees who had personal encounters with female Colombian nationals consistent with the misconduct reported in April 2012, around the time of advance activities for the President’s visit to Cartagena. These encounters took place at the Hotel Caribe, the Hilton Cartagena Hotel and at a private residence.

Our investigation determined that 12 of the 13 USSS employees met 13 female Colombian nationals at bars or clubs and returned with them to their rooms at the Hotel Caribe or the Hilton Cartagena Hotel.  

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Through our interviews, we learned that following their encounters, 3 females left the rooms without asking for money, 5 females asked for money and were paid, and 4females asked for money but were not paid. In addition, one female, who asked to be paid but was not, brought a Colombian police officer to the door of the USSS employee’s room; the employee did not answer the door. As a result, she was paid by another USSS employee and left.

“All told, the Secret Service investigated 12 people in connection with the Colombia incident. The final outcome was seven resignations, three employees receiving administrative punishment, one termination and one retirement,” Judicial Watch reports, adding,  “At least 10 military personnel involved in Obama’s trip also reportedly invited prostitutes to their rooms. Multiple law enforcement and congressional sources alleged involvement by members of the White House advance team, as well.”

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