The husband of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly been arrested in California this past weekend for allegedly having driven under the influence.
“The House Speaker’s spouse was arrested just before midnight Saturday night in Napa County, and then booked hours later into jail on two counts — driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher … both misdemeanors,” read a report sent out by TMZ. “The arrest info here lines up with what we know about Paul publicly, especially his birthday — listed as April 15, 1940. Indeed, the guy’s 82 years old.”
This bit of news comes to light just as Nancy Pelosi finds herself out in Rhode Island in order to issue a requested commencement speech for the graduates of Brown University.
As of writing, Nancy Pelosi herself has not deigned to issue a statement in order to address the arrest of her husband.
Paul Pelosi has been the prime subject matter of various news reports from time to time because of the choices that he makes in regard to the stock market that more often than not end up showing quite sizeable increases in wealth just before an act of Congress ends up affecting the market.
Previously, the Pelosi family purchased multiple millions of dollars worth of various call options for specific stock just a scant few days after she took up the defense of members of Congress and their respective spouses having the power to buy stocks in the wake of a report that alleged that a few dozen of said members of congress had violated the STOCK Act.
When questioned as to why the members of Congress, along with their direct family and spouses, should not be outright banned from the trading of stock, Pelosi claimed, “Because this is a free market and people – we are a free market economy, they should be able to participate in that.”
“No, Speaker Pelosi, members of Congress should not be allowed to trade stocks while in office,” Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW) stated in response. “Trading stocks while writing regulations that could influence stock value and receiving non-public information is not what you were all elected to do.”
Just a scant few days after issuing those remarks, starting back on the 17th of December and reaching out through the 21st, Pelosi and her spouse purchased a few million dollars worth of various call options for stocks that included Disney, Salesforce, Google, and Roblox.