‘DRUNK’ WITH POWER
Pelosi’s hubby busted in ‘DUI’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was arrested in California on Sunday and charged with drunken driving.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was nabbed just before midnight in Napa County and charged with one count of driving under the influence and one count of driving with a blood-alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher, according to a sheriff’s office online booking report.
The speaker’s husband was booked at 4:13 a.m. and released at 7:26 a.m., the records show. His bail was set at $5,000 on the two misdemeanors.
More details about the arrest were not available, and it was unclear whether Paul was in the car alone at the time.
The Napa City Police Department told The Post that it was not involved in the arrest, and the Napa County Sheriff’s Office did not return a request for comment.
Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, said, “The speaker will not be commenting on this private matter, which occurred while she was on the East Coast.”
Nancy Pelosi, 82, was in Providence, RI, on Sunday delivering the commencement speech at Brown University, hours after her husband’s arrest.
“Graduates, you are our hope,” the Democrat told students. “We know this: Hope is the most powerful weapon against threats against democracy. We should have hope, because we believe in America.”
While giving her speech, one person yelled, “We need gun control,” and another shouted “criminal” at her.
$110 million fortune
Paul and Nancy Pelosi have been married since 1963.
Paul founded and ran Financial Leasing Services, a successful venture-capital company, and the two had amassed an estimated personal fortune of more than $110 million by 2018, according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit that tracks money in politics.
The couple has five children and splits their time between San Francisco, part of which Nancy Pelosi represents, and Washington, DC.
Paul Pelosi keeps a relatively low profile, but has been in the news in the past year over his stock trades.
In March, he bought $2.2 million in Tesla stock as some in Congress proposed banning lawmakers and their spouses from stock trading.
Critics on both sides of the aisle think such trades present a conflict of interest, given that lawmakers have access to sensitive information and enact laws regulating businesses.
Paul Pelosi’s arrest was first reported by TMZ.