"The Metropolitan Police Department is the lead investigative agency handling the robbery," writes Lt. Nicholas Breul in an email. "The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the investigation, but the D.C. Detectives are following up on the case."

Breul described the feds' role as "monitoring ...but MPD is conducting the investigation and following any leads."

Penn, star of the Harold & Kumar movie franchise, was accosted yesterday morning in the 1500 block of S Street NW.

According to TMZ.com, "the bad guy didn't just take Penn's wallet, the perp also made off with Kal's two cell phones – one of which belongs to the U.S. government."

If you missed the link in Loose Lips Daily yesterday, let us recap. The House Energy and Commerce Committee—which obviously likes the bill—offers the following as the "Benefits of Health Care Reform In the District of Columbia":

363,00: The number of D.C. residents already with health insurance that will receive "improved" coverage.

Up to 134,000 and 17,300: The number of families and small businesses, respectively, that will be eligible to receive tax credits and other help in purchasing coverage.

75,000: The number of beneficiaries that will receive improved Medicare coverage, including on currently unsubsidized medications.

6,000: The number of uninsured residents that will receive coverage.

5,600: The number of residents with pre-existing conditions that will be able to get coverage.

400: The number of families protected from bankruptcy due to unaffordable health costs.

67,000: The number of young adults that will be able to receive coverage on their parents' plans up to the age of 26.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who, we all know, couldn't vote for the legislation but would have, says the bill also will provide up to $54.6 million for the District's 42 community health centers. LaShon Beamon, spokeswoman for the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF), told City Desk that DHCF is still in talks with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to determine the amount that will go to the city and how the funds will be used.

Photo by Leoncillo Sabino, Creative Commons Attribution License

Despite U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s willingness to talk about race in America and his pledge to end racial profiling, his Department of Justice hasn’t done much to dismantle Bush-era guidelines on national security; Those guidelines not only promote racial profiling by the Federal Bureau of Investigation but create justification for state and local law enforcement agents to do it too, the ACLU charges.

"Racial profiling remains a widespread and pervasive problem throughout the U.S., impacting the lives of millions of people in the African American, Asian, Latino, South Asian, Arab and Muslim communities," Chandra Bhatnagar, staff attorney with the ACLU Human Rights Program and the main author of the report said in a press release. "The U.S. government must take urgent, direct action to rid the nation of the scourge of racial and ethnic profiling and bring this country into conformity with both the Constitution and international human rights obligations."

The ACLU made the charges in a report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. To read the press release or the entire report, click here.

As luck would have it, the W.T. Woodson grad and Auburn University star signed a contract with the Texas Rangers and left the Cape to mere hours before game time to start his pro career.

But while I was at the game and talking with locals about the Kettleers' history, more than one fan mentioned that Bill Richardson, the current New Mexico governor and burgeoning scandal magnet, was on the team in the 1960s.

Richardson, I was told, was so good that he'd been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics.

I'm no scout, and had never seen Richardson, who I was told still hangs out in Cotuit in the summer and catches Kettleers games, perform in anything other than street clothes. But I can't say the guy ever struck me as pro athlete material.

But I Googled him when I got home and found references to Richardson's being picked by the A's and being headed for the Majors before injuries derailed his baseball dreams and sent him into a political career.

In one profile about his days playing with Cotuit, Richardson uses the old "boast-disguised-as-self-deprecation" tool that all good politicians have at the ready, treating the interviewer for a small New England publication to a remembrance of the time that future New York Yankees great Thurman Munson jacked a monster home run off him during a Cape Cod League game.

Well, Richardson's been in the headlines lately for an investigation into allegedly peddling his influence for campaign contributions.

And if nothing else comes out of the inquiry, my lack of faith in the politico's athletic potential has already been confirmed: Richardson, amid the blood-in-the-water convergence of media types since he withdrew his name from consideration for a cabinet post in the Obama administration, has been forced to admit that the baseball draft portion of his bio is phony.

An investigation into Richardson's baseball claims by the Albuquerque Journal uncovered that the only source for all the A's stories was the governor himself.

When confronted with the fact that no evidence to confirm his oft-told tale exists, Richardson gave as pathetic a confession as possible: "After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter," he said, "I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's."

(Munson died in a plane crash in 1979, so he isn't around to say Richardson never really served him a gopher ball all those years ago on the Cape. Pity.)

Briefly back to Cotuit guys who really were drafted by Major League teams: After leaving the Kettleers in July, Bianucci hit .316 in 31 games with a Rangers rookie league affiliate in Spokane, Wash.

He keeps that up, and he'll never be a governor.