Claude Allen tries to work out plea deal
Published: Thu, Jun. 29, 2006 11:48AM
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closeClaude Allen, the former Jesse Helms protege and White House staffer, is trying to work out a plea deal on charges that he fraudulently stole items from Target and Hecht's stores in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Allen resigned this winter as domestic policy adviser to President Bush. He was charged weeks later with theft. At the time, his attorney called the matter a misunderstanding.
Allen's attorney and the prosecutor asked a district court judge this week for a continuance of Allen's trial, which was scheduled for Friday. The judge approved the continuance today.
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Allen was the highest ranking African-American working in the White House. He went to high school in Raleigh and served as Helms' spokesman during the Helms-Hunt Senate campaign of 1984.
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