Associated Press
Rep. Michael Grimm's (R-N.Y.) career is off to a rocky start. The conservative freshman, in the middle of his first re-election bid, is campaigning while facing an investigation from the FBI's public corruption unit, and subpoenas have already been issued as part of a federal grand jury probe. It's generally not a good sign when politicians run into this kind of trouble.
But Grimm's troubles took an even more curious turn over the weekend, when some windows were broken at his campaign office on Staten Island. Vandalism, of course, is never acceptable, but Grimm did his best to dramatize the incident, calling it a "politically motivated crime" that constituted an "assault on democracy" and an "attack on free elections."
Even more importantly, Grimm also said the broken windows on Saturday night were part of a larger crime -- the Republican said the vandals had also broken into one of his computers and erased "confidential" files. This seemed very hard to believe -- the holes in the windows were far too small for a human to climb through -- but that was the claim Grimm made publicly.
Yesterday, Grimm's version of events took a turn for the worse.
The vandal who smashed windows over the weekend at Representative Michael G. Grimm's campaign office on Staten Island has come forward, and he is not even old enough to vote.
He is 14 years old and confessed to a counselor at his school, where he is in the eighth grade, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
The kid didn't realize it was a congressman's office, he didn't touch any computers, and nothing was stolen.
When law enforcement found no evidence Grimm's computers had been tampered with, Grimm shifted gears, saying it's "possible that a volunteer could have inadvertently compromised the computer and failed to report it."
The latest polling shows Grimm with a double-digit lead, despite his ongoing scandals.
* thanks to my colleague Vanessa Silverton-Peel for the idea for the headline
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I'm only surprised Grimm didn't insist the kid was a shill for the teacher's union.
Great. You just gave him the idea. /sarc
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-and it was Grimm, not the 14 year old, who said the "dog ate my files".
It just shows you, when you get all these extreme rich people making economic and world decisions everything goes to crap. Why is that? Because they are so wrapped up in craving power, corrupt, arrogant, greedy, hypocrites, and deceiving. These extreme rich people have no real concerns about anybody, except themselves. The whole Europe is in turmoil, because of these rich people that really lack any brains or know what life is really about. And you see too plainly in America these Republicans, extremists of hatred, and the extreme wealthy play their dark games that in the end only bring destruction. It is real unfortunate we have not learned this lesson, since it does have a major impact in the world today. But there are always hopes that this time we will finally learn this lesson well and make this world much better than it was.
Ran over to Fox to get their take, didn't see anything on this...
I guess the exercise was good for you; otherwise that was a waste of time.
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You will find Grimm's files with Mitt's Massachusetts files from his term in office.
A vote for a crook is not good.
But a vote for any Republican in any state is a vote for the TEA PARTY, since when they get to Washinton, they vote in lockstep with Tea Party Republican Filibuster Senator leader mcconnell(364 filibusters) and house leaders Bachman, Ryan, cantor and all the others.
Check Brown, Mass, Ayotte of NH. Collins. Snow and others votes, see how many times they voted against their leaders.
Do not believe what they say, it is how they vote,
All republicans in senate and house voted for Ryan's 2011 budget, if Rommey was president and senate had a couple more republicans it would be law now and medicare would be vouchers and your nursing home disabled and seniors would be home for you to care for with the cuts in medicaid. You can find budget and 47% video Rommey 5/14/12 and votes on c-span. Video only states what Ryan did in budget.
Along with those are the missing financial records and vendor contracts and Romney communications from the Olympics.
See, exhibit A on why the whole lot of them (GOTP) need medication and psychotherapy immediately!
I had my reservations about the story even before the kid came out and admitted to breaking the windows (but not doing anything else, certainly not to the computers).
When someone is under an FBI investigation and suddenly his computer "had been tampered with", my antennae start twitching at double speed; it's just way too convenient. Truth to tell, I thought Grimm erased some incriminating computer files, and then broke the windows himself, as a cover-up (didn't know at the time that the holes were too small to enter through).
Are you a nut?
Call me crazy but....shouldn't this guy be prevented from running for re-election specifically because he is under investigation by the FBI for public corruption? Come on people...this is exactly why Congress is loaded with these crooks. Citizens keep re-electing them!
I just hope the sensible republicans will make their way to the polls. They are probably so disgusted with this election that they are going to stay home. This is their strategy for the most part. Then all their followers will vote just like they did in 2010 and look what is happening to the state laws. If we only would be more compassionate and more respectful towards one another on this earth, and more diligent toward the true meaning of being a Christian or any other religious faith we wouldn't be in this mess that we are in today. Compassion is a human right.
The Government is not holding anyone accountable when someone knowingly does something wrong. Take for instance the Bush-Cheney years, Cheney ordered the men captured and then tortured these men. Why didn't Obama take action, instead were pardoned. This is what's wrong with this Country; we look up to our Government to uphold our laws and regulations. So when we see these senseless and horrific crimes one would think that these men should be held accountable. Time after time we see this on our airwaves so then we become immune with all the corruption and lies that we have been seeing in this throughout the years. Look at the corruption with Wall Street, why didn't our Government go after them? We were going to impeach a President for personal affairs but we didn't hold accountable a person that thought he could get away with trying to be the most corrupted man of our time.
I completely agree with much of your comment, but
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These days they're as rare as unicorns. That fart rainbows.
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I see a lot of comments from people who know nothing at all about politics and the candidate in question. In my opinion, I think an undisclosed source gave the rock to the 2 kids. I am sure of it. Undisclosed sources do a lot of bad things. Why, aren't they the ones who are causing the investigation in the first place. Seeing that the candidate is a Republican, you can assume that the undisclosed source was created by a Democrat. And until this nonsense stops, nothing will ever change.