ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Via Atrios, we learn that Claude Allen, the former deputy HHS and former assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, has been arrested for felony theft and a felony theft scam:

According to the Montgomery County Police Department, Allen was arrested yesterday and charged in a felony theft and a felony theft scheme. According to a department press release, Allen conducted approximately 25 fraudulent "refunds" in Target and Hecht's stores in Maryland. On Jan. 2, a Target employee apprehended Allen after observing him receive a refund for
merchandise he had not purchased. Target then contacted the Montgomery County Police. According to a source familiar with the case, Target and the police had been observing Allen since October 2005.

This guy is more than a thief, however, he's also a malicious fundie nutbag:

Allen was the driving force to replace science-based sex ed with the failed policy of teaching that only abstinence prevents AIDS. ... When a federal judge found that a federally funded Louisiana abstinence program "illegally handed out Bibles, staged anti-abortion prayer rallies outside women’s clinics and had students perform Bible-based skits," Allen refused to have the program audited, while continuing his repeated audit persecutions of effective AIDS-fighting groups teaching condom use.