The Congressional Integrity Project — a 501c organization aligned with Democrats — has sent a letter to Fayette County District Attorney Kimberly Baird asking her to open an investigation into Congressman James Comer over his admission of stealing emails from a server from a law firm back during his campaign for governer of Kentucky in 2015. I had written about Comer’s attempt to smear a Republican rival with the leak of those emails that pertained to the rumor that Comer had physically and mentally abused a former girlfriend in college. Comer had hoped that the email exchange between a political blogger and the spouse of Republican Hal Heiner’s running would implicate Heiner’s campaign in spreading the rumor.
A Democrat-aligned organization has asked a Kentucky prosecutor to investigate U.S. Rep. James Comer over his possible involvement in the leak of a law firm's emails during his 2015 race for governor, stemming from an admission in a recent New York Times profile of the congressman.
The Congressional Integrity Project — a 501(c)(4) that is pushing back against U.S. House Republicans' investigations of President Joe Biden's son and administration — wrote a letter Wednesday to Fayette County Commonwealth's Attorney Kimberly Baird, asking her office for a "formal and thorough investigation" into Comer's "involvement in unlawfully obtaining and/or receiving stolen emails from a computer server" of the law firm.
"No one should be above the law, and information revealed yesterday in an article published in the New York Times provides strong reason to believe that Representative Comer committed at least one, and perhaps multiple, felony offenses during his failed attempt to secure the Republican nomination for governor in 2015," wrote Kyle Herrig, the group's executive director…
The New York Times profile of Comer addressed his unsuccessful bid for governor in 2015, when he lost by a narrow margin in the GOP primary. A few weeks before that primary election, the Lexington Herald-Leader published a story based on emails showing an attorney married to a rival candidate's running mate had been in contract with a blogger who was making allegations that Comer had abused a former girlfriend.
The source of those emails used in the 2015 story had not been publicly known until the New York Times story, which said that "Comer confirmed, for the first time, that he had been behind the leak and strongly hinted he had gotten them from the server."
“I’ve had two servers in my lifetime,” Comer told the New York Time reporter when asked about the emails. “Hunter Biden’s is one, and you can — I’m not going to say who the other one was, but you can use your imagination.”
Emphasis is mine.
Scott Crosbie, the husband to Hal Heiner’s running mate, worked at a law firm in Lexington, which is in Fayette County. Crosbie has since left the law firm, but…
Scott Crosbie, the attorney whose emails were accessed in the 2015 story, is no longer with the Lexington law firm in question, now named Hurt, Deckard & May PLLC. A partner with the law firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what happened to its servers in 2015 and if it ever conducted an investigation or filed any complaint related to the leaked emails.
The good news in this story is that the new DA for Fayette County was appointed by Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. And Beshear has a good reputation from his time as State Attorney General. In other words, maybe Kimberly Baird will give this a look see?