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Sen. Wicker keeps aide on staff after strip club arrest
An aide to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is staying employed there after charges were dropped following his recent arrest on running an illegal strip club in Jackson, Miss., a spokesman for his office told Caught Our Eye.
The aide, Saleem Baird, is a legislative correspondent making a $52,000 salary out of the conservative senator's Washington office (a fact we know because then-Rep. Wicker's 2006 bill reacting to LegiStorm's launch with a ban on the publication of congressional staff salaries went nowhere). While working in Washington, Baird was also managing the club in Jackson, Miss. The staffer was arrested Sept. 3 at Jackson's Level 3 nightclub along with three women who were allegedly nude on stage when vice officers arrived. As the police report notes, "A male who identified himself as Saleem Baird advised that he was the manager and in charge. He was also placed under arrest for Violation of City Ordinance."
The arrest was first reported by the blog Jackson Jambalaya. LegiStorm first published this story Wednesday as a Caught Our Eye item exclusively for Pro subscribers.
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