Michael Grimm Republican representative from New York's Staten Island had some problems last night at his New Dorp offices. The first I was aware of this was a tweet saying his office was broken into and his computers were erased. Further reading shows his computers were tampered with.
On further inspection it was determined the intruder had caused a different type of damage -- someone installed the Linux operating system on the office's computers, Grimm told the Advance Sunday night, and in the process wiped the hard drives clean. "All of my polling data, all of the data from my IDs of voters, and a bunch of other campaign information. But fortunately we had everything backed up from literally hours before, so we don't lose anything because we have backups," Grimm said.
He has no doubt his office was targeted, and called the incident cowardly.
"Whoever did this, the people responsible are very ignorant, and they don't understand that this is not just an attack against me or my campaign. This is an attack against a federal campaign office, which is an attack on our democracy as a whole. It's an attack against what we stand for, for free elections," he said.
This is a Republican with admitted ties to not only the FBI but Wall Street and has had contact with the mafia.
Michael left the FBI for a Research Analyst position on Wall Street attaining several securities industry licenses. During this period, Michael attended Bernard M. Baruch College at night to further his education. Upon graduating with his BBA in Accountancy with a concentration in Finance, Grimm felt the pull of public service and returned to the FBI where he was appointed a Special Agent and assigned to the New York Office. Although he was assigned to investigate the Gambino Crime Family
Something stinks.
Fundraiser arrested
Grand jury probe
8:14 AM PT: H/T to nytcek for pointing out the district is now the 11th and not the 13th.