pol sees cybergate in HQ burglary A little bit of Watergate intrigue as Rep. Michael Grimm's office appears to have been broken into over the weekend 
 
 Rep. Michael Grim, under a federal probe for alleged campaign finance violation, says vandals broke into his campaign office and erased computers. It’s an attack against what we stand for, for free elections.” 
 
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 Grimm, who is the target of a federal investigation involving campaign fundraising, is running for reelection against Democrat Mark Murphy. Police sources told the New York Daily News there was no sign of forced entry at Grimm’s headquarters, and said the case is being investigated as an act of criminal mischief, not a burglary.
– The campaign office of Michael Grimm, a Republican congressman from Staten Island, has suffered a break-in, with the windows smashed by cinderblocks and computer hard drives erased, Politico reports. Grimm claims the attack was "politically motivated. This is an attack against a federal campaign office, which is an attack on our democracy as a whole." His computers, with polling data and voter ID materials, had recently been backed up. But in a puzzling twist, police are apparently skeptical about Grimm's take on the case: They're investigating the matter as criminal mischief rather than burglary, the New York Daily News reports, saying they found no indication of forced entry.