Obama's Computer Chief Once Shoplifted 4 Shirts

ABC News ^ | March 18, 2009 | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN

[grundle]

Now it can be told: The mysterious petty theft that President Barack Obama's new computer chief committed at age 21 was shoplifting four dress shirts worth $134 from J.C. Penney.

A 1996 Montgomery County, Md., police report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday under a public records law shows Vivek Kundra was observed by a security guard putting the men's shirts into a shopping bag and leaving the store without paying. Sgt. Tom Stanton wrote that Kundra was arrested after a brief foot chase and the property was recovered.

Kundra pleaded guilty, paid a $100 fine and $55 in court courts and was ordered to do 80 hours of community service. The White House has called a "youthful indiscretion" long ago resolved.

[rockabyebaby]

Well I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell ya....someone on obama’s staff did something illegal? I am SHOCKED......./sarcasm OFF

[BuffaloJack]

Another Chicago Crook.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The White House has called a "youthful indiscretion" long ago resolved.

He was 21, not 2 - that's old enough to know that shoplifting is a crime. I'd prefer executive appointments who aren't tax-cheats and scofflaws, personally.

[TXBlair]

Theft is a youthful indescretion? Is the Ozero administration’s generational theft a youthful indescretion, as well? I guess so.

Gawsh, does TOTUS employ ANYONE without a criminal record???

[Kartographer]

Example of items stolen:

[SandWMan]

It’s like a gang. In order to work for Resident Soetoro, you have to commit a crime for your initiation.

[wbill]

Well....I wouldn't want to be judged on everything that I did as a teenager (or at 21).

However, if he had just come out, said "Yep, I screwed up. Won't do that again.", he'd have been much better off.

I'm more concerned with the fact that he thought that he was smarter than the sumtotal of the American People.

[GreenHornet]

No, no, it wasn’t shoplifting....it was an “undocumented sale.”

[pikachu]

He should be okay if he left them off his tax return.

[SolidWood]

Afrikakorps? Was he looking for the secret of the lost Kenyan Birth Certificate?

[grobdriver]

Is NOTHING about and NO ONE in this administraton honest?

Rhetorical question, of course...

[miliantnutcase]

I was posting on freerepublic when I was 21, I was already at the age where I knew better.

[Jeff Chandler]

He couldn’t have waited for the J.C. Pennys 50% off Mens Clothing Sale?

[Kartographer]

Don't you know that looking at the past personal records of Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro is like looking inside the Ark of the Covenant!

[Dallas59]

At that age I was working and paid for my stuff...in addition to a new Camaro, and apartment. I knew what was right and wrong.

[kenmcg]

Stealing a couple of shirts is a misdemeanor in comparison to Geithner and others in Bam’s adminstration who were out and out tax evaders. Have no fear Bam will probably give the shop lifter the Presidential Medal of Freedom next year.

[mware]

If I had done that, I would not pass the security screening to teach in a public school.

[boomop1]

another gangesta.

[SolidWood]

It caught up with Gibbs?