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BREAKING: Media personality Sean Hannity is revealed as Michael Cohen's third client after a judge orders his name released
https:// www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/intruder-scare-in-sean-hannitys-home-leads-to-an-arrest_us_5a97cd84e4b0e6a52304e3f2
Intruder Scare In Sean Hannity’s Home Leads To Arrest
Fox News host Sean Hannity had a follower walk into his Long Island, New York, home ― and he wasn’t welcomed.
Former dentist Jan Gilbert, 72, of Long Beach, New York, was charged with trespassing after entering the conservative commentator’s house on the afternoon of Feb. 17, according to reports on Wednesday.
Gilbert wrangled his way into Hannity’s Centre Island mansion by telling an unnamed person outside the home that he was writing a book about the Fox News personality, and needed to give him some papers, according to court documents cited by The Associated Press. Gilbert then followed that person into the house, AP reported.
Hannity’s wife, Jill, told police that she spotted Gilbert inside without permission and that she did not know him. She said Gilbert then left the house and sat in his car on the driveway, where police found him, Newsday reported.
Gilbert was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass.
He told Newsday “someone misheard, fabricated or misunderstood” the encounter. “There is a real reason, a valid reason, a superior reason and a fully confirmed reason, but I’m not going to be able to talk about it,” he said.
According to a real estate listing site, Billy Joel and Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch have lived in the posh area.
Hannity did not immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment.
The judge is Kimba M Wood
https:// www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/us/judge-withdraws-from-clinton-list-for-justice-post.html
Archives | 1993
JUDGE WITHDRAWS FROM CLINTON LIST FOR JUSTICE POST
By RICHARD L. BERKE and
Judge Kimba M. Wood withdrew today from consideration for Attorney General after the White House learned she had employed an illegal immigrant as a baby sitter before it became illegal to do so.
That stunning setback left President Clinton scrambling for the third time to fill the post.
There was no evidence that Judge Wood, who sits on the Federal District Court in New York, did anything illegal, but White House officials said they told her to withdraw because they feared the kind of public outcry that struck down the Administration's first choice for Attorney General, Zoe Baird, who had employed two illegal aliens for household work. A Blank List
White House officials said they were angry at Judge Wood because she had not told Mr. Clinton and other officials about her baby sitter, even when she had been directly asked. In her statement, however, Judge Wood said she had not misled the White House.
After the hasty search for a first nominee, then the rush to replace Ms. Baird, the Clinton Administration was forced by Judge Wood's withdrawal to start virtually from the beginning in looking for the nation's top law-enforcement official.
"They have nobody on their list now, period," said a Democratic Senator who is close to the White House. "They've got to start from scratch."
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As late as Thursday evening, White House officials confidently said Mr. Clinton planned to announce Judge Wood's selection as soon as background checks were completed. But what the officials viewed as a done deal disintegrated later that night as officials questioned Judge Wood and studied documents she had submitted. Trained to Be Playboy Bunny
The sudden turnabout on Judge Wood is a blow to Mr. Clinton, who two weeks ago withdrew Ms. Baird's name after she admitted she had hired the illegal immigrants and had knowingly neglected to pay the required taxes for household employees.
Tonight the White House issued a statement on behalf of Mr. Clinton. "I understand and respect Judge Wood's decision not to proceed further with the possibility of being nominated as Attorney General," it said. "I was greatly impressed with her as a lawyer, a judge and a person. I respect her legal talents, judicial record and integrity. I wish her well."
The White House officials said they had also recently discovered that Judge Wood had briefly trained as a Playboy bunny years ago when she was a student in London and that they feared that that might become the source of jokes.
In the statement issued by her lawyer's office in New York, Judge Wood did not cite her stint as a Playboy trainee but said the issue was her hiring of an illegal immigrant from Trinidad, who worked for her for seven years. Judge Wood said she did not act illegally because her baby sitter was hired in March 1986, several months before the enactment of a Federal law making hiring of illegal aliens unlawful. The baby sitter obtained legal residency in December 1987, she said.
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