WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now it can be told: The mysterious petty theft that President Barack Obama's new computer chief committed at age 21 was shoplifting four dress shirts worth $134 from J.C. Penney.A 1996 Montgomery County, Md., police report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday under a public records law shows Vivek Kundra was observed by a security guard putting the men's shirts into a shopping bag and leaving the store without paying. Sgt. Tom Stanton wrote that Kundra was arrested after a brief foot chase and the property was recovered.
Kundra pleaded guilty, paid a $100 fine and $55 in court fees and was ordered to do 80 hours of community service. The White House has called it a "youthful indiscretion" long ago resolved.
Guys like Kundra are why I'm so paranoid in stores. I hate to be caught in a foot chase, so I hold my potential purchases out away from my body in full view as if to say to the security cameras "you can trust me."
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