White House gate crashers reportedly sneaked into earlier dinner

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Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the intrepid Virginia couple who infiltrated a high-profile White House state dinner last week, reportedly did something similar about a month earlier.

A Washington TV station and the Associated Press reported that the Salahis slipped into a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Awards dinner at which Obama spoke. A guest complained that they didn’t belong at his table.

‘I double-checked my [guest] list and when they weren’t on that list we escorted them out,’ a foundation representative, Lance Jones, told the AP.

WTTG-TV, which first reported the incident at the Black Caucus dinner, said that when the Salahis showed up at the dinner they were followed by TV cameras from Bravo, which airs the ‘Real Housewives’ reality programs, and were turned away at the door. The couple is reportedly is auditioning for that program.

‘They apparently made their way through the kitchen and got in that way,’ Jones said, who added that he realized the incident involved the Salahis after he was contacted Monday by a WTTG reporter.

Most of the attendees at the event did not have access to Obama, he said.

A Secret Service spokesman, Darrin Blackford, said he had no information about the incident.

-- Associated Press