The U.S. Secret Service will investigate whether an advance presidential security team paid for sexual favors at a strip club in El Salvador. The allegations follow the sex scandal involving the Secret Service and Colombian women thought to be prostitutes.

The report comes from Seattle-based investigative reporter Chris Halsne, and alleges that U.S. embassy officials also visited the strip club.

Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings told BBC that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan had yet to find anything “credible.” 

U.S. state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed to BBC that her agency is looking into the allegations. 

“Obviously we will inquire of our embassy in San Salvador with regard to the conduct of our own employees,” Nuland said. “But the article alleges that they attended the establishment, not that they engaged in any illegal or unsanctioned conduct.”

 

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