George Osborne's aide arrested over bar fracas A speechwriter-turned-press officer at the Treasury will appear in court tomorrow charged with behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress after a disturbance at a bar. Mario Thomas Pisani, 34, was detained after police were called to a fracas at a bar in Battersea Rise, south west London, just before 1am on Saturday morning. Pisani, a press officer for the Treasury and former speechwriter for Chancellor George Osborne, was bailed and will appear at South Western Magistrates' Court tomorrow. The junior civil servant, who also worked in the private office of former chancellor Alistair Darling, has been suspended from his work, but a spokesman for the Treasury said: "We do not comment on specific staffing matters." The offence Pisani is charged with is listed under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. A 28-year-old unnamed woman was cautioned for assault on police in the same incident, after she and Pisani were taken to a south London police station.