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A top legal aide

of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was cleared of stealing the government’s personal

file on superstar rapper Eminem last week. According

to The Mirror, Nicholas Smart, 26, works with Prime Minister Blair’s private

legal team, which is headquartered out of Blair’s Downing Street headquarters.Smart’s

house was raided for an unrelated incident and during the raid, police found a

highly confidential Crown Prosecution Service file on Eminem, born Marshall Mathers.

According

to the classified document, UK government officials considered charging Eminem

with inciting fans to take drugs during his tour of the UK in 2001, but the prosecution

of the rapper was never carried out.Smart

denied charges of theft and receiving and told London’s Inner Court that he took

the file home by mistake and was scared to return it.