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Florida (US), Mar. 28 (ANI): A Florida reporter said a staffer for Vice President Joe Biden, kept him confined in a closet during a recent fundraiser for Florida Senator Bill Nelson.

Scott Powers, a veteran political reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, was the lone newsman assigned to cover the 500-dollar-a-head bash for Senator Nelson at the home of developer and Democratic bigwig Alan Ginsburg on Wednesday.

But when he showed up at the posh Winter Park mansion, a “low level” staffer hustled him into a storage closet and stood guard outside the door, the New York Daily News quoted Powers as telling The Drudge Report.

The staffer told Powers he could come out when Biden arrived to give a speech.

“When I’d stick my head out, they’d say, ‘Not yet. We’ll let you know when you can come out,’” Powers revealed about the staffer.

During the wait, while the 150 guests noshed on caprese crostini and chicken Caesar wraps, Powers waited patiently, sipping bottled water and killing time at a makeshift desk set up amid the clutter.

“Sounds like a nice party,” he emailed his editors, along with a picture of the temporary prison, the Orlando Sentinel wrote on Wednesday.

After about an hour and 15 minutes, Powers was let out to listen to Biden and Nelson speak.

After the speeches, though, he was supposedly dumped back in the closet for the rest of the event, Drudge reported.

Powers made no mention of his impromptu imprisonment in his report or in Twitter posts about the fundraiser.

The Sentinel also took the incident in stride, mentioning Powers predicament in a brief, lighthearted blog post.

Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement Sunday that the decision to put Powers in the storage room was a “mistake” and that the reporter had accepted her apology on Wednesday. (ANI)