Did the Secret Service Trash a Townhouse?
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, September 20, 2007 | 02:47 PM
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, September 20, 2007 | 02:47 PM
Nancy Finigan of Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood has a bone to pick with the Secret Service. She tells D.C.'s Fox 5 News that after she rented a townhouse to a group of agents in the fall of 2005, they trashed the place, leaving filthy carpets, damaged drywall and stained basement floors when they moved out after their 18-month lease was up.
Finigan says the damage cost $19,000 to repair. The General Services Administration, which negotiated the lease for the property on behalf of the Secret Service, has now opened discussions with Finigan about a settlement relating to the damages.
So what was the Secret Service doing renting a tony Georgetown townhouse in the first place? Finigan says she was told it would be used as a safe house, but also points out that first daughter Jenna Bush lived just a few doors down.
Comments
i like how Border Patrol throwing out of control parties in one neighborhood = all fed law enforcement are messy neighbors
dsw? | Sunday, September 23, 2007 | 12:47 PMDidn't she get a security deposit? If so that's all she should get. Remember this is DC a pig pen
dan ketter | Friday, September 21, 2007 | 01:20 PMGet a grip DSW. The suggestion that the the actions ALLEGED to have been taken by a group of agents is necessarily the behavior of the USSS as an agency (or characteristic of any other federal agency for that matter as DSW suggests) is ridiculous. If a small group of federal employees indeed violated the terms of a lease arranged for or on behalf of a federal agency, then let the parties settle their differences consistent with the terms of the lease. DSW can and should retreat to the world of paranoia and universal skepticism.
CJM | Friday, September 21, 2007 | 12:09 PMNo surprise there, none. When Federal law enforcement moves into a neighborhood, they are a mess to have as neighbors, even if they purchase the home. Arrogance, above the law? They seem to think so... we have Border Patrol in our neighborhood and it has been one open drunk party after the other with the police called numerous times and drunk tanks parked outside the homes, under-age drinking, parties so big the party-goers urinate all over the neighbors' property..... You name it.
DSW | Friday, September 21, 2007 | 07:16 AMABOUT THIS BLOG
Government Executive Editor Tom Shoop takes a look at news and events affecting the federal bureaucracy, from the perspective of a longtime observer of government.
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