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Total Drag: Bush Judge Appointee Resigns
After DUI Arrest While Cross Dressing
Penisito
Review
Wednesday February 20, 2008
That I find this story so hilarious probably says more about me than
the cross-dressing federal judge in question, but as they say these
days, it is what it is. The punch line is probably the best part.
[Federal Judge Robert] Somma worked
in private practice for years in Boston before he was appointed to the
bench by President Bush in December 2004.
Yes, the fact that Bush appointed him as a federal bankruptcy judge
does crack me up, but let’s start at the beginning.
Somma’s Mercedes-Benz E320 sedan hit a pick-up truck from behind
about 11:29 p.m. on Feb. 6, the police report said. No one was hurt.
Somma, who lives in Newbury, Mass., fumbled in his purse for his
driver’s license before handing it to the officer who later
arrested him, the police report shows.
“He had a difficult time locating his license in his purse.
He passed over it multiple times before removing it,” officer
Paul J. Thompson wrote in his report.
The officer offered no other details
with regard to the judge’s attire or accessories. Nor would representatives
of the Manchester Police Department or the city solicitor’s office,
which worked out the negotiated plea agreement with Somma’s lawyer…
But lots of other people did offer those details, of which Audrey Hepburn
would have been proud.
When authorities removed him from
the vehicle, they said he wore a black women’s cocktail dress,
fishnet stockings and high heels.
But in his mug shot, the judge appears to be wearing blue eye shadow.
Way to wreck a really chic look, Robert.
And where, you might ask, was the judge going that night dressed that
way?
Somma told police he had been at the Breezeway Pub where he had one
gin and tonic about two hours earlier, the police report reveals.
He later said he drank two gin and tonics.
The Breezeway Pub, at 14 Pearl St., bills itself as “New Hampshire’s
favorite gay and alternative bar,” according to its web site.
The arresting officer reported Somma
smelled of alcohol, slurred his speech and fell backwards against the
door frame while getting out of his car.
The Boston-based judge chose the bar in question, according to local
rumor, because his wife, Wendy, was out of town and no one knew him
in New Hampshire. Sounds like Wendy is pretty cool, though.
“I suspect that he will not
be interested in talking to anyone from the newspaper, and I’m
his wife,” said a woman who answered the telephone at the judge’s
home yesterday. She referred media calls to Gary H. Wente, chief administrative
officer for the First Circuit Courts.
Somma showed his sense of style to the end. He phoned in his resignation
from a vacation spot in the Caribbean. If I were him, I think I’d
just stay there.
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