What a knucklehead.
Can a lawyer be that stupid? Wellllll... we have our answer in Clinton X 2, and Reno, don't we?
Here's a good one:
Clinton agent's gun stolen by heroin addict
April 25, 2000
BY CAM SIMPSON, FEDERAL COURT REPORTER Chicago Sun-Times
A Secret Service agent assigned to protect first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had her gun stolen while at a bar in Chicago's Fairmont Hotel during a visit to the hotel by the first lady, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
The gun allegedly landed in the hands of a heroin addict who has been arrested 39 times and boasted that in October he took the weapon from a Secret Service agent guarding the first lady, according to court testimony and records.
With the help of Chicago Police, the gun was recovered in its customized Secret Service holster earlier this month.
Mary Drury, a veteran Secret Service agent assigned to the Chicago field office, was guarding the first lady during an Oct. 27 visit here on the day her gun was stolen, according to officials and court testimony late last week. The Secret Service would not say whether Drury was drinking at the bar when the theft occurred, but did say she was off-duty at the time. Her gun, which was inside her purse, was stolen from beneath her seat at the Fairmont's bar, according to testimony.
Drury was protecting the first lady at the Fairmont that day, but, for security reasons officials declined to say whether Clinton had a room there. Arnette Heintze, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service office here, said Drury is not a permanent member of Clinton's detail. He declined to comment when asked if Drury was reprimanded. He said she was an assistant to the special agent in charge of the Chicago office when the theft occurred, a title she still has today.
"It's something that shouldn't have happened from our standpoint," Heintze said. "We take it very seriously and put quite a bit of resources into the proper resolution of this case." Heintze also said Drury was victimized "by a professional criminal" in a theft "that happens every day, anywhere in America."
Heintze would only say that Drury had been working "all day long" and was at the bar "for dinner." According to testimony late last week in federal court, Drury was "with a number of other agents." Even if they're off-duty, the Secret Service frowns on agents drinking at the same location where they're protecting the president or the first lady, authorities said.
Information about the theft surfaced late last week at a hearing for Kenneth Blake, the 32-year-old heroin addict who was charged earlier this month with possessing the stolen gun. Blake, whose last known address is at a South Side hotel, has pleaded not guilty.
Secret Service Agent William Siemer, who testified at the hearing, said Blake denied taking the gun. But Siemer testified that Blake told authorities "he should go scot-free because it would look very bad for the government if the gun we're talking about was used to hurt somebody."
Blake is in jail pending trial, but a federal magistrate also approved a request that he be evaluated for drug treatment. He was arrested after a woman with stolen credit cards told Chicago police that Blake was bragging that the gun was "his insurance policy," Siemer testified. "If he ever got into trouble, he was going to use that as leverage, as a bargaining chip to get out of jail," Siemer said in court.
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