WASHINGTON -- Former White House secretary Fawn Hall, who shredded reams of documents about the Iran-Contra scandal, was fined $10 Tuesday when she refused to stop eating a banana in a subway station, a Metro spokesman said.
Metro spokesman Al Long said Hall was eating a banana on the platform of the Metro Center station -- the city's busiest -- just before noon.
Eating in subway stations is illegal in Washington.
'One of our officers asked her not to eat and she continued so he indeed issued her a $10 citation,' Long said.
Hall, now a secretary at the Pentagon, was secretary to Lt. Col. Oliver North, a National Security Council aide, who carried out orders to sell U.S. arms to Iran in exchange for American hostages in Lebanon, and arranged the diversion of the arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Hall testified before the congressional committees investigating the scandal that she shredded documents to protect North, and removed them from the White House at night by hiding them in her boots and clothing.
At one point in her testimony she said people sometimes should go above 'the written law,' but later retracted that statement.
