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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - At least two of the Hillary Clinton campaign workers held hostage in Rochester by a deranged ex-con with road flares taped to his jacket took shelter and breakfasted with their parents yesterday at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel.
“I’m the mom. I’m doing better now,” said the mother of a young woman in the green sweater whose release from the besieged campaign office was captured on national news. “We’re doing well.”
Mom and the ex-hostage daughter were surrounded by Clinton campaign staffers who tried to keep the press at bay while the two walked to their hotel room. The last hostage released, a young man with red hair in his 20s, stood with his mother at the doorway to his hotel room and told the Herald the ordeal was still too raw to talk about.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I’m just not ready to talk yet.”
Clinton spoke privately with the hostages Friday night, then put them up in the posh hotel, where rooms start at $289. Campaign staffers treated the hostages and their families to a late breakfast in the hotel restaurant yesterday. The former hostages smiled and laughed with staffers during the meal.
Clinton’s Rochester office was closed yesterday at the request of law enforcement. When it reopens, it will have tighter security.
“The campaign is coordinating with local law enforcement to take additional security measures,” said Kathleen Strand, spokeswoman for the New Hampshire campaign.
Clinton flew from here to Iowa.
Authorities said Friday night that hostages played a key role in getting convicted rapist Eisenberg, 46, of Somersworth, N.H., to surrender during the hours-long ordeal. At times Eisenberg refused to talk to a police negotiator and the hostages took the phone, relaying information to Eisenberg and keeping lines of communication open.
Stratford County Attorney Janice Rundles, who will be prosecuting Eisenberg, praised the work of cops. “I’m just really proud of the Stratford County Tactical team and the way everyone cooperated,” she said. Rundles said Eisenberg will be charged with three counts of kidnapping, one of count criminal restraint and one count of false report of a bomb.
Eisenberg is being held at the Stratford County Jail. Rundles said he refused the services of a bail commissioner, so he’s being held without bail. She said Eisenberg was evaluated mentally and physically when he was admitted to the jail.
Eisenberg was due in Rochester court Friday to face a domestic violence charge. His wife filed for divorce citing alcoholism and abuse.
Rundles said Eisenberg will be arraigned tomorrow at Rochester District Court, where prosecutors plan to talk about Eisenberg’s past run-ins with the law.
In 2002, Eisenberg sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, alleging he had been molested by a priest in the early 1980s, when he was about 21.
In 1999 and 2000, Eisenberg was incarcerated in a facility for sexual offenders at Bridgewater State Hospital, according to court records. He was later transferred to the Massachusetts prison in Concord.
A 1996 Herald article said Eisenberg was serving 10 to 20 years for rape in Concord. Eisenberg wrote to the Herald after he received a mailer from the Bob Dole presidential campaign soliciting voter opinions. Eisenberg’s suggestion: “Require politicians to be legally responsible for their campaign pledges and prosecute those promises which result in perjury, fraud, deceit and deception to national trust.” |
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