Report: Man posing as lawmaker cons Secret Service backstage at Obama speech

Report: Man posing as lawmaker cons Secret Service backstage at Obama speech

The individual was screened for weapons before mingling with lawmakers.

In the midst of several Secret Service scandals, including a fence jumper who made it past the front doors of the White House, a new incident has surfaced. According to the New York Daily News, a man pretending to be Congressman Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) was able to pass through security and mingle with other lawmakers at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner on September 27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

Bloomberg News reports that the unnamed individual was screened for weapons, but it wasn’t until a White House aide recognized that the man wasn’t really who he said he was that the impostor was forced to leave the premises. According to the report, the man wasn’t stopped by the Secret Service during his exit for further questioning about the incident.

A Secret Service spokesman told Bloomberg News that the man was properly screened for weapons before hobnobbing with lawmakers. There’s no word on how close the faux-Rep. Donald Payne Jr. got to the president, who was speaking at the event, or his wife.

Following a disastrous hearing on Capitol Hill, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned this week and has been replaced by retired Secret Service agent Joseph Clancy.

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