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GOP delegate's hotel tryst goes bad when he wakes up with $120,000 missing (Doh!)
St Paul Pioneer-Press ^ | 9/16/08 | David Hanners - Staff Reporter

Posted on 09/16/2008 12:04:22 PM PDT by MplsSteve

He met her in the bar of the swank hotel and invited her to his room. Once there, the woman fixed the drinks and told him to get undressed.

And that, the delegate to the Republican National Convention told police, was the last thing he remembered.

When he awoke, the woman was gone, as was more than $120,000 in money, jewelry and other belongings.

The thief's take stunned cops.

"It's very, very, very rare," Minneapolis Police Sgt. William Palmer said. "I can think of a couple of burglaries where we had that much stolen, but it's the first time I've heard of this kind of deal."

In a statement released today, Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, 29, of Denver, put the figure at much less.

"It's embarrassing to admit that I was a target of a crime. I was drugged and had about $50,000 of personal items stolen, not the inflated number that the media is reporting from an inaccurate police report," he said.

"As a single man, I was flattered by the attention of a beautiful woman who introduced herself to me. I used poor judgment."

Contacted by the Denver Post Monday, Schwartz declined to speak on the record. In the statement released today, Schwartz said he would decline further interview requests.

The haul included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring, a necklace valued at $5,000, earrings priced at $4,000 and a Prada belt valued at $1,000, police said.

Schwartz is a single attorney and a fixture in Colorado Republican politics. He was one of the state's delegates to the convention this month in St. Paul.

Reached by phone at his law office Monday, Schwartz said that because the case still was under investigation, "I think at this point, I don't want to make a comment on it."

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: drugged; edwardsesque; hooker; rnc; rncconvention; robbed
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1 posted on 09/16/2008 12:04:22 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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I love to meet the complete dumbass that checks into a hotel with that much in valuables and a woman he didnt know. I’ve never met someone this stupid.


2 posted on 09/16/2008 12:06:22 PM PDT by SwankyC
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Bet ya he was set up!

Bet he was targeted and his weakness known for women.

3 posted on 09/16/2008 12:07:13 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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4 posted on 09/16/2008 12:07:13 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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“As a single man, I was flattered by the attention of a beautiful woman who introduced herself to me. I used poor judgment.”

** Yeah right.


5 posted on 09/16/2008 12:07:19 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: SwankyC

Stupid is right.

I’m guessing he was a hung-over left-over from the DNC party the previous week. And decided to party on with the repubs.

What a DUmb-A$$.


6 posted on 09/16/2008 12:09:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: cyborg

As one of my female friends would say, “He was thinking with the wrong head”.


7 posted on 09/16/2008 12:10:12 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: SwankyC

He is single, what is he doing with ear rings, necklace,belts. Sounds kinda hokey to me.


8 posted on 09/16/2008 12:10:21 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
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To: cyborg

I cannot tell who is ‘Guilty’ without pictures.... ;)


9 posted on 09/16/2008 12:10:36 PM PDT by BossLady (Welcome to the new SARAHDIGM!!!!!!!)
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To: cyborg

This dumbass got what he wanted (in a way), but he didn’t get kissed! Good for her-doing to a lawyer what they have done to us!!


10 posted on 09/16/2008 12:10:36 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: BooBoo1000

Insurance fraud?


11 posted on 09/16/2008 12:11:33 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: MplsSteve

What a dumb-ass.


12 posted on 09/16/2008 12:11:39 PM PDT by WayneS (Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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I love to meet the complete dumbass that checks into a hotel with that much in valuables and a woman he didnt know. I’ve never met someone this stupid.

Sure you have. They just don't admit it is all.

13 posted on 09/16/2008 12:12:33 PM PDT by PeterFinn ("I will stand with the Muslims" - Baraq Hussein Obama p. 261 "Audacity of Hope")
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"It's very, very, very rare," Minneapolis Police Sgt. William Palmer said. "I can think of a couple of burglaries where we had that much stolen, but it's the first time I've heard of this kind of deal."

Some cop. It's the first time someone ADMITTED to getting rolled.

14 posted on 09/16/2008 12:12:51 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: MplsSteve

Giuliani delegate?


15 posted on 09/16/2008 12:12:55 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("[Gov. Sarah Palin] is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger." -- Gloria Steinem)
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As a single man, I was flattered by the attention of a beautiful woman who introduced herself to me. I used poor judgment.

"Only enough blood to think with one head at a time" is a story as old as humanity....

16 posted on 09/16/2008 12:13:07 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: MplsSteve
A previous Pastor of mine used to say:

"Sin (i.e. Adultery, fornication, whoremongering) will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you're willing to pay"

Another famous fellow used to quote his momma as saying: "Stupid is as stupid does"

17 posted on 09/16/2008 12:13:42 PM PDT by jimmyray
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To: MplsSteve
A previous Pastor of mine used to say:

"Sin (i.e. Adultery, fornication, whoremongering) will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you're willing to pay"

Another famous fellow used to quote his momma as saying: "Stupid is as stupid does"

18 posted on 09/16/2008 12:13:55 PM PDT by jimmyray
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The haul included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring, a necklace valued at $5,000, earrings priced at $4,000 and a Prada belt valued at $1,000, police said.

Can someone tell me what brand of watch costs $30K? I don't think a Rolex is anywhere near this expensive. And as for the earings and the Prada belt, let's just say he was at the wrong party's convention.

19 posted on 09/16/2008 12:14:54 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: jimmyray
Slow internet + impatient user = double post.

sorry

20 posted on 09/16/2008 12:15:26 PM PDT by jimmyray
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