House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was recently arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol while in California.
The 82-year-old Paul Pelosi was pulled over and arrested for a DUI just before midnight in Napa County, California.
TMZ reported that Paul Pelosi was booked “hours later” into jail for the DUI as well as driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or higher, per the public booking report.
Both charges are misdemeanors with the bond set at $5,000.
The records state that Paul Pelosi was booked at around 4:13 a.m. and released at 7:26 a.m.
It appears that Nancy was not with her husband during the incident, as she was busy in Rhode Island delivering a commencement address to graduates at Brown University.
“The Speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast,” Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the Speaker, Fox News reported.
The couple have been married since 1963 and have five children together. Nancy’s husband founded the Financial Leasing Services, an investment firm in San Francisco.
The New York Post shares that while typically Paul Pelosi prefers to maintain a low profile “in March, he bought $2.2 million in Tesla stock as some in Congress proposed banning lawmakers and their spouses from stock trading.”
“Critics on both sides of the aisle think trades like Pelosi’s present a conflict of interest, given that Pelosi and other lawmakers have access to sensitive information and are responsible for enacting laws regulating businesses,” the report shared.
It’s unknown if anyone else was in the vehicle during the incident.
