Prostitution scandal ricochets through Washington

WASHINGTON — The Secret Ser­vice pros­ti­tu­tion scan­dal esca­lated Tues­day with the dis­clo­sure that at least 20 women had been in hotel rooms with U.S. agents and mil­i­tary per­son­nel just before Pres­i­dent Barack Obama arrived for a sum­mit with Latin Amer­i­can lead­ers. The head of the Secret Ser­vice said he had referred the mat­ter to an inde­pen­dent gov­ern­ment investigator.