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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. ‘Break You in Half’ Grimm Is a Hothead With a Shady Past
Source: Daily Beast
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Nothing stuck and the questions kept coming, even as he easily won a second term in 2012. There was the long New Yorker article in 2011 about the difficulty of relying on confidential informants for police work, and that included details about Grimms time at the FBI, including how the now-congressman pulled out a gun in an altercation at a nightclub, only to return a few hours later, brandish the weapon again, and instructed that all the white people get out of here.
Then there was the report that one of Grimms business partners from an energy concern in Texas was convicted of stealing $2 million from customers. News that the securities firm where he worked after his FBI gig was sanctioned repeatedly by regulators for gouging customers. His health restaurant was being sued for paying employees off the books and below minimum wage.
There was the time he got into a nearly physical confrontation with a voter who disagreed with him at a supermarket. Another nearly physical fight with some hecklers at a Memorial Day parade Bill de Blasio, then NYCs public advocate and now its mayor, said at the time that Grimm was doing the scandal variety show. Always a new one to look at every week.
The reason Grimm threatened to break in half television reporter Michael Scotto was become, Scotto, who works for the local cable news station NY1, asked Grimm after the State of the Union address about a scandal that has been dogging him for over a year. It concerns Rabbi Pinto, who provided the gateway to Grimms massive fundraising before his first run for office. According to several reports, Grimm promised one of Pintos top deputies help with his immigration issues if the aide helped Grimm skirt campaign finance laws. According to the allegations Grimm more than once accepted cash-stuffed envelopes, and the FBI and the House Ethics Committee are investigating. And two weeks ago, federal agents arrested another one of Grimms associates, a Texas woman accused of funneling thousands of illegal campaign contributions to him.
Then there was the report that one of Grimms business partners from an energy concern in Texas was convicted of stealing $2 million from customers. News that the securities firm where he worked after his FBI gig was sanctioned repeatedly by regulators for gouging customers. His health restaurant was being sued for paying employees off the books and below minimum wage.
There was the time he got into a nearly physical confrontation with a voter who disagreed with him at a supermarket. Another nearly physical fight with some hecklers at a Memorial Day parade Bill de Blasio, then NYCs public advocate and now its mayor, said at the time that Grimm was doing the scandal variety show. Always a new one to look at every week.
The reason Grimm threatened to break in half television reporter Michael Scotto was become, Scotto, who works for the local cable news station NY1, asked Grimm after the State of the Union address about a scandal that has been dogging him for over a year. It concerns Rabbi Pinto, who provided the gateway to Grimms massive fundraising before his first run for office. According to several reports, Grimm promised one of Pintos top deputies help with his immigration issues if the aide helped Grimm skirt campaign finance laws. According to the allegations Grimm more than once accepted cash-stuffed envelopes, and the FBI and the House Ethics Committee are investigating. And two weeks ago, federal agents arrested another one of Grimms associates, a Texas woman accused of funneling thousands of illegal campaign contributions to him.
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Rep. ‘Break You in Half’ Grimm Is a Hothead With a Shady Past (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jan 2014
OP
It sounds like he used the FBI training for lessons on how to be a crook.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2014
#2
Perhaps we need to check his testosterone-fueled libido and suggest some Zyprexa or something.
libdem4life
Jan 2014
#18
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. Check out my new sig line.
This psychopath needs to be replaced.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)2. It sounds like he used the FBI training for lessons on how to be a crook.
global1
(25,246 posts)4. Looks LIke Grimm Has An Anger Management Problem.....
with the notoriety that he brought on to himself list night with this threat to the reporter - the pressure will be on Grimm not by other members of the MSM. I expect future outbreaks of rage from this guy because I don't think he'll be able to handle the pressure.
KT2000
(20,577 posts)5. charge him!
anyone else would have been.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)6. Vote Christie-Grimm in 2016, the Angry Corrupt Bully-Thug Ticket
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)12. Why settle for only one Bully-Thug...
When you can get two for the price of one?
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)14. Precisely. It's more efficient!
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)7. ... And they call Richard Sherman a thug. n/t
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)8. Time was mobsters
bought their politicians. Increasingly, they do the job themselves.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)13. +1000. Power of the Narcissists, no "family" required. nt
Divernan
(15,480 posts)9. Many curious gaps in his official & Wikipedia biographies.
http://grimm.house.gov/about-me/full-biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Grimm_%28politician%29
Information typically included for political figures, but totally missing from either bio includes:
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Names & occupations of mother and father
Names & occupations of siblings, if any
Religious affiliation of family
Location of where he grew up
Name of High school
Name of first college
His official bio states he dropped out of college after freshman year & enlisted in the USMC. So what college? What was his rank in the USMC? His bio says he "served in the Persian Gulf War". In what capacity did he serve?
Was he ever married? I found references to his fight with "the husband of his girl friend" and to a "former girlfriend":
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9411401
The more one digs, the more muck is uncovered. For example:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/whats-going-on-with-michael-grimm.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/nyregion/michael-grimms-business-ties-are-at-odds-with-upright-image.html?_r=0
The New York Times article goes into great documented detail about Grimm's extensive shady dealings. When you read it, allow time to take a shower afterward because you will have been exposed to so much muck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Grimm_%28politician%29
Information typically included for political figures, but totally missing from either bio includes:
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Names & occupations of mother and father
Names & occupations of siblings, if any
Religious affiliation of family
Location of where he grew up
Name of High school
Name of first college
His official bio states he dropped out of college after freshman year & enlisted in the USMC. So what college? What was his rank in the USMC? His bio says he "served in the Persian Gulf War". In what capacity did he serve?
Was he ever married? I found references to his fight with "the husband of his girl friend" and to a "former girlfriend":
Earlier this month, the FBI arrested Grimm's former girlfriend on charges she illegally funneled thousands of dollars into his campaign. Grimm also faces an ongoing federal investigation into allegations that he or his campaign illegally solicited money from foreign donors.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9411401
The more one digs, the more muck is uncovered. For example:
During his campaign for Congress, Grimm was publicly chastised by the F.B.I. for improperly using Bureau imagery in his ads. An F.B.I. spokesperson later informed me that Grimms repeated contention that he was the first undercover agent on Wall Street was incorrect.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/whats-going-on-with-michael-grimm.html
He landed on the Times again, this time on page A1. The deeply reported story digs into the Congressmans checkered background in business, uncovering, among other damning facts, that:
Grimm has obscured a portion of his biography in which he worked for Whale Securities, a Wall Street firm which ran into problems with regulators and customers.
Grimms partner in a Texas real-estate development, a former F.B.I. agent himself, was under indictment for racketeering and fraud. He was convicted, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Grimm later employed the same man again.
After opening a restaurant in Manhattan, Grimm was sued for cheating workers; that suit hasnt been resolved. He had also failed to carry workmans-compensation insurance.
Grimm has obscured a portion of his biography in which he worked for Whale Securities, a Wall Street firm which ran into problems with regulators and customers.
Grimms partner in a Texas real-estate development, a former F.B.I. agent himself, was under indictment for racketeering and fraud. He was convicted, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Grimm later employed the same man again.
After opening a restaurant in Manhattan, Grimm was sued for cheating workers; that suit hasnt been resolved. He had also failed to carry workmans-compensation insurance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/nyregion/michael-grimms-business-ties-are-at-odds-with-upright-image.html?_r=0
The New York Times article goes into great documented detail about Grimm's extensive shady dealings. When you read it, allow time to take a shower afterward because you will have been exposed to so much muck.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)16. Are members of Congress
screened for weapons before entering the Capitol? Just asking.
niyad
(113,302 posts)10. what an offensive pos--and we have to pay for him!!
Uben
(7,719 posts)11. Does this make him the GOP front-runner for prez?
After all, they pick the most ignorant pieces of shit they can find for the job.
Rex
(65,616 posts)15. Grimm is just another cowardly, knuckle dragging, peice of shit.
Not even original
tanyev
(42,554 posts)17. Interesting post at Talking Points Memo about the reporter:
From TPM Reader AF ...
Don't quote me please but.... has anyone noticed that while NY-1's Michael Scotto seems like a nice young man his Uncle is Anthony Scotto, feared Gambino boss and the King of the NY waterfront for many years.
Whilst Michael is (according to my sis at NY-1) a very nice and shy type I wonder if the other side of the family is going to be as easy going towards thug vermin, Grimm. Whom by the way (as a former security type and bouncer) definitely exhibiting Juicer symptoms. Brow looking overgrown and the overgrown muscularity of the upper body. Scotto's (Anthony) daughter was a long time reporter on CBS Rosanna Scotto, was a longtime WABC reporter.
Don't quote me please but.... has anyone noticed that while NY-1's Michael Scotto seems like a nice young man his Uncle is Anthony Scotto, feared Gambino boss and the King of the NY waterfront for many years.
Whilst Michael is (according to my sis at NY-1) a very nice and shy type I wonder if the other side of the family is going to be as easy going towards thug vermin, Grimm. Whom by the way (as a former security type and bouncer) definitely exhibiting Juicer symptoms. Brow looking overgrown and the overgrown muscularity of the upper body. Scotto's (Anthony) daughter was a long time reporter on CBS Rosanna Scotto, was a longtime WABC reporter.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grimm-and-grimmer-for-grimm
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)18. Perhaps we need to check his testosterone-fueled libido and suggest some Zyprexa or something.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)19. like a scene from "The Godfather III"