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Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy "Dancing Hands: Pelosi,was previously convicted of a DUI in 2022 and this one is worse.
The husband of outgoing Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has been slapped with a misdemeanor hit and run charge by the Napa County District Attorney's office after a July 3 crash in Yountville, California.
The 86 year old faces the charge after allegedly striking a parked, unoccupied Tesla and then fleeing the scene without stopping to provide required information as the law demands. Pelosi is set to make a court appearance in connection with the misdemeanor charge on August 14. He is charged with violating California Vehicle Code section 20002, a misdemeanor charge which requires drivers involved in collisions resulting in property damage to stop and provide the information required by law.
He is additionally charged with the infraction of making an unlawful turn.
The Napa County District Attorney’s Office does not typically issue press releases regarding misdemeanor hit and run cases involving only property damage. However, this release is being issued because of the significant public and media interest surrounding this case, said the office in their statement.
The Napa County DA's office answered the question of why they were not currently charging Pelosi with a DUI after this latest infraction. They stated that "The District Attorney's Office has an ethical obligation to file only those charges that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt based on the available evidence.
No evidence indicating that the defendant was driving under the influence was presented to our office. Accordingly, there is no evidentiary basis to file or prove a DUI charge in court.
"In 2022, he was convicted "based upon an automobile collision and driving under the influence arrest on May 28th, 2022." He was not made to appear in the courtroom at that time, instead filing plea forms. He "pled guilty to Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Causing Injury. Based upon the plea, Judge Solga dismissed the second charge of Driving With .08% Blood Alcohol Level or Higher Causing Injury in the interests of justice."
As a result of the infraction, Pelosi was sentenced to summary probation for three years, a term he has only just completed. He was made to pay a fine of less than $2,000, [the ice cream in his freezer costs more] made to serve 5 days in jail, and made to "submit to a blood, breath, or urine test if requested by any law enforcement officer or probation officer if suspected of driving with a measurable amount of alcohol."
Additionally, he had to pay the victim about $5,000 in restitution for medical bills and lost wages, had to complete a DUI program for three months, and could not operate a car that did not have a "certified ignition device" for the period of one year. Why is he allowed to drive at all after his horrible record?
Pelosi has been grappling with car crashes for much of his life and killed his brother in a car wreck when he was just 16 and his brother David was 19. In 1957, he lost control of the vehicle he was driving, his brother in the passenger seat, and flipped into an embankment. The two were on a joyride after Pelosi had picked up his elder brother from his girlfriend's house.
"David John Pelosi, 19 ... was trapped under the light car driven by his brother when it flipped over on Skyline Highway a mile north of Crystal Springs," read a newspaper report on the crash. It went on to say that "David warned young Paul, as the car neared a tight curve near the dam: 'This is a bad stretch–better slow down.'"
But it wasn't as if that could stop him years later.
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