Posted on 02/13/2018 11:23:01 AM PST by b4its2late
An official in Barack Obama’s White House resigned in 2016 because he was arrested for taking pictures up women’s skirts on DC Metrorail cars, according to the Daily Mail.
The official, William Mendoza, was the executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education until he resigned in November 2016. Mendoza was convicted after pleading guilty in January 2017 to attempted voyeurism, a misdemeanor.
According to the Daily Mail, he used his government-issued iPhone — during work hours — to take the photos and resigned as the Department of Education was readying an investigation into his behavior.
He also allegedly viewed a video on his phone of a woman undressing in a changing room in a clothing store.
Mendoza, 42, described by the paper as married and a father, was earning $140,000 in his Executive Branch position. The judge handed down a 90-day suspended sentence and a $100 fine.
Mendoza’s lawyer, Paul Kiyonaga, told the Daily Mail his client received treatment after the arrest and just wants to move on with his life. “He’s received treatment for the underlying issues that gave rise to this incident, and, with the strong support of his family, is moving forward productively with his life,” the lawyer said.
In 2016, a Native American from Oklahoma accused Mendoza of assaulting him because he was wearing a Washington Redskins shirt.
The inspector general for the Department of Education recommended he be barred from any further government employment.
The position of executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education is a senior position requiring appointment by the president.
I wonder if this arrest for voyeurism was just “cover” for his attack on the White House tourist in October 2015. Cover something horrible with something clownish.
dailymail.com
William Mendoza, 42, the former executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, stepped down after he was arrested and charged in November, 2016, for the vile acts.
Mendoza, who earned $140,000 a year as a policy advisor in Obama’s White House, tried to take photos and videos up women’s skirts at least four times on his government-issued iPhones in July 2016 without their consent, according to Department of Education documents.
He was also allegedly caught looking at footage, apparently filmed in secret, of a woman in her underwear getting changed in a dressing room. It is not known if he recorded the video himself.
When he took the indecent photos, he was supposed to be at work and was using a travel card funded by the taxpayer, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com through a Freedom of Information Act request.
William Mendoza, a senior policy advisor in President Obama’s Department of Education, pleaded guilty to attempted voyerism and resigned for following women on the DC Metro and taking pictures up their skirts
That punch to the chest, to the solar plexis could’ve killed him.
Too bad he survived (smirk)
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