Second hotel named in Secret Service scandal

Second hotel named in Secret Service scandal

The prostitution scandal involving the U.S. Secret Service is spreading to a second hotel, CBS News is reporting.

The news agency reports a law enforcement official told a reporter that another agent under investigation brought a woman back to the Hilton Hotel in Cartagena, Colombia, days before President Obama was to arrive there.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., also made the allegation involving the Hilton incident on television's Face the Nation on Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reports. Lieberman chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

"Now, you're into the hotel where the president of the United States was going to stay," Lieberman said on the CBS program. "And it just gets more troubling."

Before now, the Hotel Caribe had been the chief focus of the scandal in which Secret Service agents are alleged to have brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms in Cartagena days before President Obama was to have visite d the city for a meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders. Twenty-three members of the Secret Service and the military are alleged to have engaged in inappropriate behavior while checked in at the Caribe, according to news reports.