Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was robbed while treating her family, including her grandchildren, to Easter dinner at a restaurant in Washington on Sunday evening, the Department of Homeland Security told the Washington Examiner.
Noem had taken her loved ones out for the holiday dinner in Washington when she was targeted by a thief while in public.
“Her entire family was in town, including her children and grandchildren — she was using the withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts,” the DHS said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Noem told CNN, while at the White House Easter egg roll on Monday, that her purse contained her driver’s license, medication, apartment key, passport, DHS building access badge, makeup, blank checks, and roughly $3,000 in cash.
“We can confirm this occurred last night,” the DHS wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner on Monday.
Video footage reviewed by the Secret Service following the theft showed a white man wearing a medical face mask stealing her bag and then leaving the unspecified restaurant.
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The Secret Service, an agency within the DHS, did not respond to a request for comment on why its agents were not more closely monitoring the secretary during the public outing.
The Metropolitan Police Department declined to comment and referred the Washington Examiner to the Secret Service.
