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The Secret Service scandal has cost three agency employees their jobs so far, reports AP. (One quit, one supervisor retired, and another supervisor is in the process of being fired.) The New York Times, meanwhile, scored an interview with the 24-year-old escort at the heart of the case, the one whose argument with an agent over payment—"I tell him, 'Baby, my cash money'"—sparked the whole mess. Among the details:
- She says a group of US men approached her and a friend at a disco, and she agreed to accompany one guy back to his hotel for $800.
- The agents were "very discreet" and never said they were with the president.
- The next morning, her client said he didn't remember the deal, gave her $30, and ordered her from the room. She made a scene in the hallway, and other Americans got her about $225, so she left. By then, however, hotel security and local cops were on the scene.
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