Top DEA administrator Michele Leonhart announced Tuesday that she’ll be stepping down in the aftermath of revelations that her agents got down and dirty with Colombian prostitutes.

According to reports, DEA agents under her purview spent years enthusiastically partying with prostitutes at a series of hookers-and-blow parties sponsored by Colombian drug cartels.

In a recent hearing on the scandal, Leonhart claimed she was “powerless” to do anything more than suspend the offending agents. That testimony, coupled with already-antagonistic relations with the Obama administration, led to her resignation, the New York Times reports:

After the hearing, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, pointedly refused last week to defend Ms. Leonhart or say that the president had confidence in her. He said only that the allegations against the D.E.A. agents were “troubling” and that Mr. Obama had “high expectations” for everyone serving in his administration.

It was not the first time that Ms. Leonhart had been at odds with Mr. Obama, who nominated her in 2010 to head the D.E.A., where she had had a 30-year career. During a closed-door speech to law enforcement officials last year, she reportedly criticized the president for having said in an interview with The New Yorker that marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol.

She’s expected to step down in mid-May.

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