Seven American soldiers and two Marines received administrative punishment but were not charged criminally in the prostitution scandal that involved members of the Secret Service in Cartagena, Colombia. One airmen has also received a letter of reprimand.

Three soldiers who received non-judicial punishment have asked to face court martial in an effort to clear their names, defense officials told NBC News.

Two sailors implicated in the scandal remain under investigation.

The 12 servicemembers accused of consorting with prostitutes were in Colombia to help provide security and communications for an upcoming visit by President Obama. They were charged in a military investigation that was ordered after several Secret Service agents were caught in an explosive scandal, accused of taking prostitutes back to their hotel rooms.

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The agents were ordered to return to the U.S. before President Obama arrived in Colombia.

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The chairman of a House panel looking into allegations of misconduct by U.S. Secret Service agents last month in Colombia says he sees no need to meet with one of the prostitutes at the center of the scandal.

Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a statement Sunday that a meeting with Dania Londono Suarez isn’t necessary for the committee to do its work.

Suarez has called the agents “stupid brutes" who put partying above President Barack Obama's security.

"These seem like completely stupid, idiotic people," Suarez said in an interview that aired last Monday on NBC’s “TODAY” show. "I don't know how Obama had them in his security force."

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over homeland security says he's scheduled a hearing for May 23 to review the Secret Service investigation of the Colombia prostitution scandal.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, who appeared with King on Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," said that he believes the agency has done a thorough job in investigating the incident, in which Secret Service personnel who were part of an advance team ahead of a presidential trip were accused of bringing prostitutes back to their hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia. But the Connecticut independent wants to know whether there were warning signs about agents' behavior.

He also wants to hear what steps are being taken to ensure something similar doesn't happen again.

"This is really a heartbreaking incident, and really a dangerous incident, and we really have got to make sure it never does happen again," Lieberman said.

He said the Secret Service director, Mark Sullivan, will be called to the hearing by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Nine Secret Service officials lost their jobs after the Colombia incident.

King said on “State of the Union” that he has declined a request to meet with one of the prostitutes involved in the scandal.

He later issued this statement:

Late last Thursday, an attorney for Dania Londono Suarez contacted Committee staff and requested that I meet with his client in my office.  While such a meeting -- and the inevitable circus atmosphere surrounding it -- would no doubt be of great interest to the media covering this story, a meeting with her is simply not necessary at this time for the Committee to conduct a serious and thorough investigation.  For now, I have directed my staff to communicate with and gather information about the misconduct from the woman via her attorney.      

"It is my understanding that the Secret Service investigators met with and interviewed the woman last week at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, nearly a week after she participated in that lengthy interview with a radio station.  During her interview with the Secret Service, Ms. Suarez acknowledged that at no time did she have access to any sensitive information whatsoever and had no idea that she had been involved with a Secret Service agent.    

"The Committee's investigation is ongoing, with investigators continuing to gather information on the misconduct from the Secret Service and a number of other sources."  

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Updated at 8:16 a.m. ET: MADRID, Spain -- A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service personnel has called the group of agents "stupid brutes" who put partying above President Barack Obama's security. 

"These seem like completely stupid, idiotic people," Dania Londono Suarez said in an interview which aired on Monday's TODAY. "I don't know how Obama had them in his security force."

She also accused the agents of "leaving their duty behind" and described them as "stupid brutes."

The scandal broke in April when, in advance of Obama's arrival at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, agents allegedly brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms.  One of the men, Suarez told NBC News, refused to pay her for sex so she went to the police.

So far, eight agents have lost their jobs as a result of the incident.

Suarez, 24, said three men who approached and propositioned her and her friends were drinking vodka like it was water.

"They liked to show off their bodies, great bodies, well-defined abs," Saurez said of the men she first met at a nightclub. "They liked attention." 

The mother of a nine-year-old son said she made it perfectly clear to one that a night with her would cost $800.

"And he accepted. And it was clear," she said. 

But in the morning after they had had sex, the man gave her only $50 and ordered her out of the room, Suarez said. 

"I am not to blame for being attractive," she told TODAY. "They are to blame -- for leaving their duty behind."

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DENVER -- Investigators said the attractive single mom who vanished from western Colorado 4½ years ago was running an escort service, but her father is more blunt.

"I think 'escort' is kind of a polite word for prostitution," said Frank Birgfeld, whose daughter's remains were found in a dry creek bed in a Colorado desert this week.

Thirty-four-year-old Paige Birgfeld was twice divorced and living with her three children in Grand Junction, about 200 miles west of Denver, when she disappeared in June 2007. Friends knew her as a devoted mom who sold kitchen products and did other jobs.

Her winning looks and apparent double life attracted widespread media attention to the mystery of her disappearance, including a "48 Hours" segment called "The Secret Life of Paige Birgfeld" in 2008.

Frank Birgfeld, an articulate, gravel-voiced 68-year-old who lives outside Denver, remembers his daughter as buoyant and positive.

"Man, she is, she was very rarely negative," he told The Associated Press Thursday. "Always looked at things on the bright side. Had a great smile and showed it a lot. And clearly what she liked the most was showing off her kids."

Birgfeld said he didn't know about his daughter's business.

"Absolutely, we weren't aware of it," he said.

In retrospect, Birgfeld sees clues, including one of her ex-husband's cars, a Ford Focus, which she kept for reasons her father didn't understand.

She offered different explanations. Her name was on the loan. She couldn't sell it. It was just easier to keep it.

"That was the car she was using for that purpose. I look back, it's obvious," he said.

Deputies learned about Paige Birgfeld's business, called Models Inc., in the course of interviewing acquaintances after she disappeared, Mesa County Sheriff's Sgt. Matt Lewis said. They didn't investigate whether the escort service was a front for prostitution.

"That was not the focus of this investigation," he said. "We were looking to piece together her life."

Sheriff's deputies and volunteers staged multiple searches — including several in the gulley in neighboring Delta County where two hikers discovered skeletal remains on Tuesday.

Lewis said it appeared the body had been buried once and erosion eventually exposed it. Frank Birgfeld, who visited the site Wednesday, said he thinks his daughter's body had been dumped nearby and was washed into the gully.

He said dental records confirmed the remains were his daughter's. Sheriff's investigators say they are awaiting DNA tests to confirm the identity, but they believe the remains are Paige Birgfeld's.

Her burned car was found in Grand Junction on July 1, 2007. She had been missing for three days at that point, The Denver Post reported.

No one has been arrested. In October 2007, investigators identified Lester Ralph Jones, then 56, as a suspect.

Jones was a client of Models Inc. and remains a suspect, Lewis said. Investigators haven't spoken with him since the remains were found.

Phone numbers listed for Jones were disconnected. It wasn't clear whether he had an attorney.

Frank Birgfeld, who describes himself as "a person of decent morals," said the sex trade is a foreign world to him.

A reporter once asked him what he would say to Paige about her business if she stepped into the room at that moment.

"If she walked in the door right now, I wouldn't say anything," Birgfeld said. "I would just hug her."

Connie Flukey, executive director of the Abby and Jennifer Recovery Foundation, which was formed tro organize large-scale seaches searches for missing persons in memory of Abby and Jennifer Blagg, who went missing from their Grand Junction home in 2001, told the Post the discovery of Birgfeld's body is "bittersweet."

"I always knew she would be found someday," Flukey told the newspaper by cellphone , reached on her cellphone en route to the site where Paige Birgfeld's body was found. "Today was that day. At the same time, it's heartbreaking to see what the family is going through.

"At least they can bring her home."

The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this story.

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Could Rush Limbaugh be in legal trouble for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" during his radio talk show? Yes, says celebrity/attorney/feminist Gloria Allred.

Allred released a letter she sent Thursday to the Palm Beach County Attorney's Office in West Palm Beach, Fla., demanding that Limbaugh be prosecuted under an obscure Florida statute, Section 836.04, which states, according to the letter:

"Defamation -- Whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.775.082 or s.775.083."

But County Attorney Denise Nieman pointed out to CNBC in an email that her office does not investigate or prosecute alleged criminal behavior and that Allred should have directed her letter to the State Attorney's Office. Allred, whose practice is based in Los Angeles, emailed CNBC later to say a new version of the letter has been forwarded.

You can read the first Allred letter in a .pdf document here.  And here's the second letter.

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CNBC's Ryan Ruggiero contributed to this report.

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