According to a report in the Washington Post, the Secret Service has suspended Xavier Morales, a security clearance manager for the department, after one of his employees accused him of making unwanted sexual advances in the division's Washington headquarters.

At a work party at a restaurant in downtown Washington on March 31, the woman told police, Morales allegedly told her that "he was in love with her and would like to have sex with her." After returning to the office after the party, Morales then allegedly "tried to kiss her and grabbed her arms when she resisted." Sources told the Post that "the two scuffled until Morales relented."

The Secret Service placed Morales on leave last week after the woman made a formal complaint that Thursday. From the Post:

Late last week, the Secret Service took the unusual step of placing Morales on indefinite administrative leave and adding his name to an internal “do not admit” list prohibiting entry to the office, a Secret Service official said. The Secret Service also took away his gun and badge after agency investigators launched a preliminary review of the complaint and conducted “subsequent corroborative interviews” Thursday afternoon, said agency spokesman Brian Leary.

Because of Morales' senior ranking, NBC News reports, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General and D.C. police's sex crimes unit will investigate the allegation.

Morales, 48, was promoted to his position by new Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy last October. Ironically, as the Post notes, Morales job makes him "responsible for determining when agents, through misconduct or other action, have jeopardized their security clearances and should lose their jobs."

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