House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Admits He Drunk Driving

Paul Pelosi, husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence in May.

Judge Joseph Solga sentenced Pelosi to five days in prison, but he will receive credit for two days already served and two days for conduct credit. Your remainder of a day will be served through a court work program. Pelosi will be paroled for three years and will pay more than $1,700 in fines.

The court also ordered that an ignition interlock device be installed in his vehicle for one year, that he remain in the court’s jurisdiction and that he attend three months of driving lessons in a course aimed at drivers caught intoxicated.

Amanda Bevins, Pelosi’s attorney, attended on her behalf. Under California law, a defendant does not need to be present in court unless ordered by a bailiff, and he can appear through his attorney in a misdemeanor case.

Paul Pelosi was arrested on May 28 after a nighttime collision with another driver in Napa, California. Earlier this month, he pleaded not guilty.

Nancy’s husband, 82, was trying to cross the SR-29 highway in late May when his 2021 Porsche was hit by a 2014 Jeep traveling north, according to a California Highway Patrol collision report. The vehicles “suffered extensive collision damage,” according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint filed with the court noted that Pelosi was operating her vehicle “while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under the combined influence”.

Authorities said in the complaint that, when asked for identification at the scene, Pelosi gave officers her license and an “11-99 Foundation” card. The foundation is the California Highway Patrol charity, which “provides emergency assistance to California Highway Patrol employees and scholarships for their children,” according to its website.

A native of San Francisco, he has been married to Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, since 1963. The couple has five children.