Rafael Prieto, a 22-year Secret Service agent veteran, has allegedly taken his own life in the most recent Secret Service news to rock the nation this year as of Friday. The Secret Service suicide follows the Secret Service sex scandal of Cartagena, Columbia.
Prieto, who the Associated Press said was assigned to President Barack Hussein Obama, was a married father. He finally admitted the affair with a Mexican woman when confronted about it, but only after an employee told on him first. The employee thought that Prieto might be getting preferential treatment, especially since eight agents who had been involved in the Cartagena Secret Service sex scandal were forced from the federal agency, unable to keep their jobs after such activity.
Regardless of whether he should be able to receive preferential treatment due to his proximity to Pres. Obama or not, it is weird that he would choose to take his own life after admitting his affair to those in authority over him. Isn't it?
Time reported that Prieto's body was found on Saturday, following an investigation into whether national security could have been breached by his extramarital fling. According to them, the veteran agent was being looked at in an administrative process capacity, he was not being investigated by the Secret Service Office for Professional Responsibility.
That sounds like he wasn't just worried about getting fired for sleeping around on his wife. Maybe there was more than a desire to flee the disgrace of being outed then, since what person kills themselves after admitting they did something wrong? Admitting to wrongdoing is usually followed with apologies, not suicide. His disregard for his wife and children didn't affect his conscious for six years. Would the public now believe that it overcame him in a moment of great regret?
Democratic NJ Senator Bob Menendez has been accused this week of having affairs with prostitutes too, but he isn't taking his life in the wake of it, even though it now appears that he may have frequented the country (the Dominican Republic) where the illicit sex activity was said to occur, on more than one occasion.
National security issues could be a problem with the senator as well as the Secret Service suicide agent if one considers they both have access to information the average person does not.
Disgrace can drive someone to suicide, especially if they have put forth the appearance of respectability in a religious community or among their professional peers. It isn't clear if Obama's secret service agent was a member of a church or not, but if he were, and would most likely be a Catholic, if in keeping with his culture's propensity to that faith, his suicide would make him ineligible for a proper church funeral and burial, as well as entrance into heaven. And yet he allegedly took his own life anyway.
That makes it seem that something worse than death was feared by Secret Service agent Rafael Prieto. And just what could that have been?
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Comments: 7
Unless it's religious-heterosexual-married-behind-closed-doors-missionary-position-only-with-no-contraception-or-sex-education-to-inform-otherwise.
All the better to overpopulate the planet at extreme expense to the environment.
I had a terrible experience with the United States Marshals Service that I think came from their agents being blackmailed with cell phone photos of them getting lap dances. At the time they were guarding former Judge Edward Nottingham while he was going to the Diamond Cabaret, where according to AP, he was a repeat customer known to the staff. According to the 10th Circuit, Nottingham was calling prostitutes on his court issued cell phone and a prostitute complained to them that he asked her to lie to investigators about their relationship.
Nottingham was the judge assigned to my lawsuit against the City of Steamboat Springs, its ex felon city council president Kevin Bennett etc. He dismissed my case with prejudice but didn't write an opinion. He ordered me to pay $103 K in attorney fees to the other side without stating his statutory authority, without an evidentiary hearing, and with no Rule 11(c)(6) orders or findings of fraud on my part. He ordered me to pay law firms that didn't file Rule 11 motions and even two that didn't file a notice of appearance.
In order to stop me from pursuing relief in a different court, Nottingham ordered the USMS to imprison me with no criminal charge and no bail hearing. Last summer the FBI sent me a letter saying that the USMS entered non existent criminal charges into the NCIC and the USMS Warrant Information Network WIN which is the gateway to the NCIC. I found that the Prisoner Tracking System records for Western Wisconsin show the same nonexistent criminal charge listed as an offense.
So what I think happened is that my third party defendants wanted to avoid a trial on the merits or any sort of exploration of my claims so they bribed Nottingham (my opinion but supported by Nottingham's financial statements showing he couldn't afford frequent prostitution services and the public records of the Denver Players brothel where lawyers credit cards were reportedly used and Nottingham was a customer). I think Nottingham's USMS guards had their pictures taken with cell phones when they were getting lap dances at the Diamond Cabaret so they were blackmailed and that is why they entered the non existent criminal charges against me into the USMS computer systems. I can prove that I wasn't criminally charged because the DOJ criminal division sent a FOIPA response saying they have no record of me, neither does the US Attorney's office in Colorado and Western Wisconsin the districts in which the USMS detained me.
I know this sounds weird. I don't have a criminal record. I was not allowed a bail hearing which supposedly everyone gets whether criminally charged or not if DOJ holds them for 5 days or more. See the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 USC 3142.
I filed a USMS internal investigations complaint stating these basic facts and they refuse to give me a copy of the report. If anyone wants my signature to attempt to get it, let me know. I am really angry about this.
kaysieverding@aol.com, 617 894 5274.
If social conservatives weren't forever raising a stink about others' sexuality, blackmailing human nature would be much less an issue.
Also, people say that the judiciary has such strong group bonding that they will not accept as a fact any previous judicial misconduct from any judge. It's so strange considering that physicians treat results of medical malpractice, accountants count the results of accountants thefts and misrepresentations, and contractors fix the results of other contractors building mistakes. The reputation of the judiciary is so bad that the only way it will get better, I think, is if judges offer remedy for the mistakes of other judge's, as they are supposed to under Rule 60 of the Rules of Civil Procedure.
The sexual behavior of former Federal judge Edward Nottingham was really indiscreet and hard to understand. According to the official report of the 10th Circuit when they announced Nottingham's resignation, he was calling multiple prostitutes on his court issued cell phone. Everyone knows that there is a record of cell phone calls. According to reports by 9News of Denver, Nottingham was kissing prostitutes on the sidewalk near his condominium and telling the prostitutes about his being a federal judge and about his cases. According to articles about his divorce, Nottingham showed his wife advertisements for prostitutes on his US Courts computer in his judicial chambers and he charged $240 for a prostitution website on his credit card. According to AP, Nottingham was known to the staff of the Diamond Cabaret strip club. By his own statement, see Denver Post, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal lawblog, ABA blog, etc., Nottingham was so drunk on a Monday night that he didn't recall how he allowed $3,000 to be charged to his AMEX at the Diamond Cabaret strip club, yet he was in Court on Tuesday, probably still legally drunk. If an airline pilot acted in that way, we would object to flying with him, no matter whether we were a "social conservative" or not. No one would want their portfolio manager acting so recklessly either. Most people would object to any employee showing up at work for even a minimum wage job with high blood alcohol from the night before.
What gives me hope is the Internet. It allows me to find legal resources and to publicize obstruction of justice.