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Obama Bodyguard Found Dead In Apparent Suicide

Posted: November 2, 2012

Obama bodyguard dead in apparent suicide

A Secret Service agent assigned to President Obama’s protective details has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

Rafael Prieto spent nearly six years hiding an extramarital affair with a foreign national. His secret was revealed by a fellow employee following the sex scandal involving several agents and officers earlier this year. Prieto was under investigation to determine whether he violated agency rules at the time of his death.

Employees with security clearance are required to notify the agency about relationships with foreign citizens to ensure that the person is not a risk to national security. There was no evidence to suggest that Prieto’s relationship posed a security threat. It would have been a violation of the agency’s administrative rules but not a crime.

Prieto was identified as the resident agent in charge at the Secret Service’s office in White Plains, New York as recently as 2009. He was 47 years old.

Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said, “Rafael Prieto has a distinguished 20-year career with the Secret Service that was marked by accomplishment, dedication, friendships. The Secret Service is mourning the loss of a valued colleague.”

The cause of death was determined to be carbon monoxide poisoning. Prieto was found unconscious in his car with the engine running. His death is being investigated by the DC Metropolitan Police and the medical examiner’s office.

Gwendolyn Crump, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan police department, would not comment on the details of an ongoing investigation.

Thirteen Secret Service employees were implicated in a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia in April. The agents and officers brought women, including prostitutes, back to a hotel after a night of partying and drinking. An agent refused to pay one of the prostitutes and argued with her in a hallway, and the incident went public.

The incident prompted Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan to issue a code of conduct that prohibited employees from drinking within 10 hours of the start of a shift. The code also prohibited employees from bringing foreigners back to their hotel rooms.

Rafael Prieto was not in Colombia during the scandal.



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19 Archived Responses to “ Obama Bodyguard Found Dead In Apparent Suicide ”

  1. Patty Lopresti
    Nov 8, 2012

    just like Vinny Foster hmmmm.

  2. Richard L. Morris
    Nov 10, 2012

    thinkig with the wrong head can leave you dead.

  3. Anonymous
    Nov 10, 2012

    Looks very, very suspicious to me. Maybe he was getting ready to come clean on some of Obama's cover ups.

  4. Karissa Prikopa
    Nov 11, 2012

    Oh, let the conspiracies begin!

  5. Andy Kocis
    Nov 11, 2012

    Joe Biden did it to hide his affair.

  6. Karissa Prikopa
    Nov 11, 2012

    I'll begin circulating the rumor to Fox News. Start contacting celebrity religious spokesmen, Andy. I bet we can even get the teaparty in on this one.

  7. Billy Khalil
    Nov 12, 2012

    Courtney Love did it.

  8. Lexie Barr
    Nov 13, 2012

    did Obama have the body killed. like he had the navy seals. No one is doing any thing about it! the bodygard know to much on him knock them off.we going to be a country.like every one else. Obama has the power and the wright to kill the american people.he think he is god! and he makes me sick.

  9. Patrick Frye
    Nov 13, 2012

    Obama has quite a ways before he can rival the Clinton body count conspiracies… ;-)

  10. Harry N Dottie Howard
    Nov 13, 2012

    WOW…if this is true…makes you think…

  11. Dennis Rodriguez
    Nov 13, 2012

    MAYBE HE KNEW TOO MUCH AND WANTED TO SING ABOUT THE CROOKS IN WASHINGTON.

  12. Anonymous
    Nov 15, 2012

    OH my, what did he see that got him dead….

  13. Kristine Blake
    Nov 26, 2012

    you are a true idiot

  14. Kristine Blake
    Nov 26, 2012

    Cover ups? Your a damn Republican fool…the article stated why he commit suicide,but you tea baggers, not a one of you has an education. He was having an AFFAIR with a foreign national, you dummy~

  15. Kristine Blake
    Nov 26, 2012

    Really??? Like duuuuhhhhhhh…Biden commit suicide for having an affair? Does he know it yet, because he is still alive, stupid~

  16. Kristine Blake
    Nov 26, 2012

    His penis in a foreign national woman….can you not comprehend the article?

  17. Erik Nash
    Nov 27, 2012

    Looks like the only thing that was getting covered was Happy Willy (and that's only because nobody can keep their overly, large noses out of other people's business). Obviously you're having such a bad time with your love life (or you don't have one)that other people's relationships appeal to you. LISTEN UP! Two is company three is a party that is not needed.

  18. Jimmy Christina K
    Nov 30, 2012

    Ever noticed with democrats, people always die from suicide?

  19. Shantrese Marie Skidmore
    Feb 18, 2013

    Normal people do this all the time dont understand just because u have a title y its such a prob