WASHINGTON - The Secret Service said yesterday it is investigating how an illegal alien with fake identity papers got access to the White House for two years - right under the agency's nose.
"There's an ongoing investigation, but I can't comment on the details," Secret Service spokesman Marc Connolly said.
Word of the federal probe comes after Post columnist Michelle Malkin revealed yesterday that Salvador Martinez-Gonzalez got a phony U.S. passport and posed as "Kelvin Rodriguez" to get a job with HDO Productions, Inc., as a supervisor of tent installation for White House social events.
Martinez-Gonzalez, 30, even had pictures taken of himself in the White House with then-President Bill Clinton and, more recently, with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne.
In a statement, the Houston U.S. Attorney's Office said Martinez-Gonzalez was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border at the Laredo point of entry on Dec. 2 and that a federal grand jury has indicted him on illegal re-entry into the U.S. and false passport charges.
Posted by Suzanne at January 4, 2003