Grimm is accused to failing to report more than 1 million dollars in income from his restaurant, which showed losses on his tax return, plus hiding wages to avoid paying employment taxes. How did Grimm pay his bills, if his restaurant was losing money? From the cash he took out of the till and failed to report of course. Grimm will be resigning soon. He's done. He will plea bargain, and spend a couple of years in jail. So the Dems are getting a bit ahead of themselves here in putting this seat in their column. They just won't have Grimm to kick around much longer.
Grimm seems like his ego is too big and his IQ to small for him to resign. Resigning would be an admittance of guilt. As for getting his name off the ballot, that's an entirely different subject. Both the Staten Island and Brooklyn GOP must agree to a candidate, and since Grimm was endorsed by the Conservative and Independent parties, they have to agree to a candidate too less there be vote splitting. And even if they do pick a candidate, that candidate will have $0 to Recchia's million CoH. Let's not even forget how hard it is to run in the footsteps of a scandal-plagued incumbent (David Werpin says hello!) especially if you're closely affiliated with said incumbent like Malliotakis is.
Also, it's not the Dems putting this in the Lean D column, it's impartial prognosticators.
What is wrong with this seat?
Forget it, Jake, it's Staten Island.
