First Lady Rosslyn Carter with John Wayne Gacy (xpost from HistoryPorn)

The mystery is why was he not vetted at all? And if he was it was shoddy.

At the time he was seen, as a solid out of the community.

Not by everyone. This is intellectual dishonesty I think on your part. A simple background check would have lots of disturbing things.

The photo was taken on May 6, 1978.

Ten years prior, in March 1968 he was arrested and charged with oral sodomy.

After that, he hired someone to beat up the witness in the sodomy case against him he was charged hiring a teen to assault and intimidate the witness.

A few months later he was forced to undergo a psych eval for 17 days. As a result, he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.

The opinion of the physicians evaluating him was that although he was mentally competent to stand trial his behavior was likely to bring him in repeated conflict with society.

He was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Less than one year after being released on probation from his 10 year sentence he was arrested again assaulting a teenage boy.

After completing his probationary period his criminal records were sealed from the public. However the Secret Service is not the public. Both local and federal law-enforcement had access to these records.

June 22, 1971 he was arrested again for aggravated assault and battery on another youth that he was trying to sexually assault while impersonating a police officer.

All the Secret Service had to do was run a background check and all of these run-ins would've come up. Regardless of the good face you put on for the community federal and local law-enforcement knew or could easily find out the truth. The real Mistry is why did they choose to overlook or not deeply vet this guy before giving him the pin that allowed access to the first lady?

With the rap sheet that long he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the first lady.

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