“Paul asked if there was a way I could help get the budget to the office and I said yes,” Pike explained. “The speaker is one of my bosses and Paul said the document needed to be up there.”

Capitol Police are responsible for policing the grounds and buildings of Capitol Square and the people who work and visit. Pike said he personally met two employees of the House and escorted them through the locked entry points to the governor’s suite of offices, where they left the document on a chair outside McAuliffe’s personal office.

“I didn’t want anybody to do this but me,” he said.

Pike acknowledged that he did not contact anyone on the governor’s staff or the state police, but said the task did not strike him as inappropriate or a breach of security. He also said he had never been asked to perform a similar task.

Pike said he was acting as a state employee who wanted the budget process to get in place before July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year.

“I wanted to do my part in helping with that,” he said.

Pike said simply being trusted to “drop off a document at a doorway outside an office did not cause me concern.”