Duluth’s Larry Sinclair seems to have gotten the press he desired by holding a much-blogged-about media event at the National Press Club yesterday. But he got some attention he may not have been hoping for: Federal marshals showed up and arrested him.

Sinclair, who has an outstanding warrant in Colorado and a lengthy criminal rap sheet, was presented with a warrant from the State of Delaware, before being led from the Washington, D.C. venue where he gave a press conference dubbed the "single most stupefying event on any single day" by the Huffington Post (Politico’s Ben Smith reports that Sinclair’s spokesman, no-longer-licenced attorney Montgomery Sibley, said he was wearing a kilt because it was more comfortable for "those of us on the other side of the genital spectrum").

Sinclair gained notoriety by claiming he had oral sex and took illegal drugs with Barack Obama in 1998, charges that have been debunked by a polygraph test Sinclair agreed to take. The Press Club has come under fire for hosting the event, a rental by Veritas Media, and not clearly designating it as a rental.