MSNBC co-host allegedly mugged outside D.C. hotel

By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
December 18, 2008

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski said she was mugged outside the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton early Thursday morning, just before she was to interview D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty.

Brzezinski said the suspect told her to give him $20 and she wouldn’t get hurt, but she only had $6. He took the money anyway.
Her co-host Joe Scarborough said that the hotel should have been more alert.

Brzezinski said she was embarrassed that Scarborough was making a big deal over a loss of $6.

Fenty, who had been scheduled to appear to talk about education and plans for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, told the hosts that the matter would be investigated.

D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes said Thursday evening that there was no report on the incident.

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