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Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart is to resign her post, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday, after a government investigation revealed several DEA agents had engaged in sex parties with Colombian prostitutes on the tab of drug cartels.
“Michele Leonhart, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, informed me today of her decision to retire. She will depart the agency in mid-May,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
“I want to express my appreciation to Michele, not only for her leadership of the DEA since 2007, but also for her 35 years of extraordinary service to the DEA, to the Department of Justice and to the American people.”
The report from the Department of Justice’s inspector general, which was released last month, contained a number of damaging revelations about the DEA, which Leonhart has led since 2007. It also raised questions about whether the DEA’s...
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