A Chilean national with a decades-long criminal record faces deportation after he pleaded guilty to stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s cash-stuffed Gucci handbag.
Mario Bustamante Leiva, 50, admitted in federal court last Friday to three counts of wire fraud and first-degree theft tied to a spree of April incidents across downtown D.C., according to the Washington Post. His plea adds to a rap sheet that federal filings say spans Chile, the U.K., and the United States.
But it was his targeting of Noem, 51, which really led to Bustamante Leiva’s downfall—and allowed her to get the ultimate revenge on the thief.
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