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Total Drag: Bush Judge Appointee
Resigns After DUI Arrest While Cross Dressing
Penisito
Review
Wednesday February 20, 2008
That I find this story so hilarious probably says more about
me than the cross-dressing federal judge in question, but as
they say these days, it is what it is. The punch line is probably
the best part.
[Federal Judge Robert] Somma
worked in private practice for years in Boston before he was
appointed to the bench by President Bush in December 2004.
Yes, the fact that Bush appointed him as a federal bankruptcy
judge does crack me up, but let’s start at the beginning.
Somma’s Mercedes-Benz E320 sedan hit a pick-up truck
from behind about 11:29 p.m. on Feb. 6, the police report
said. No one was hurt.
Somma, who lives in Newbury, Mass., fumbled in his purse
for his driver’s license before handing it to the officer
who later arrested him, the police report shows.
“He had a difficult time locating his license in his
purse. He passed over it multiple times before removing it,”
officer Paul J. Thompson wrote in his report.
(Article continues below)
The officer offered no other
details with regard to the judge’s attire or accessories.
Nor would representatives of the Manchester Police Department
or the city solicitor’s office, which worked out the negotiated
plea agreement with Somma’s lawyer…
But lots of other people did offer those details, of which
Audrey Hepburn would have been proud.
When authorities removed
him from the vehicle, they said he wore a black women’s
cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels.
But in his mug shot, the judge appears to be wearing blue eye
shadow. Way to wreck a really chic look, Robert.
And where, you might ask, was the judge going that night dressed
that way?
Somma told police he had been at the Breezeway Pub where
he had one gin and tonic about two hours earlier, the police
report reveals. He later said he drank two gin and tonics.
The Breezeway Pub, at 14 Pearl St., bills itself as “New
Hampshire’s favorite gay and alternative bar,”
according to its web site.
The arresting officer reported
Somma smelled of alcohol, slurred his speech and fell backwards
against the door frame while getting out of his car.
The Boston-based judge chose the bar in question, according
to local rumor, because his wife, Wendy, was out of town and
no one knew him in New Hampshire. Sounds like Wendy is pretty
cool, though.
“I suspect that he
will not be interested in talking to anyone from the newspaper,
and I’m his wife,” said a woman who answered the
telephone at the judge’s home yesterday. She referred
media calls to Gary H. Wente, chief administrative officer for
the First Circuit Courts.
Somma showed his sense of style to the end. He phoned in his
resignation from a vacation spot in the Caribbean. If I were
him, I think I’d just stay there.
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