UPDATED INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY: Former USAID Mission Director Debarred for 20 Years After Soliciting and Paying Commercial Sex Workers

USAID’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation into an allegation that a former USAID mission director was the client of a commercial sex ring. OIG worked with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) to investigate the allegations. 

OIG and DS found evidence showing that the former mission director posted online reviews of over 40 sex workers located in the United States and overseas. He told OIG and DS special agents that he’d solicited and paid sex workers while on temporary duty assignments and while he was posted overseas as a USAID foreign service officer (FSO). MORE