Police are “very suspicious” about a reported break-in at the campaign headquarters of Rep. Michael Grimm on Staten Island — where computer hard drives were allegedly erased by window-smashing vandals, sources told The Post yesterday.
“This is not your usual criminal-mischief case . . . It’s very suspicious,” said a law-enforcement source about the break-in at the Republican’s headquarters on Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp over the weekend.
“He [Grimm] claims the computers were wiped clean,” the source said. “You have vandals smashing glass, and then you have them wiping computers clean. On the one end, you have a barbaric act; on the other hand, you have a sophisticated act, wiping computers clean. Doesn’t make sense.
“Also, why would you take the time to break in and wipe the computers clean when you can just steal them?” the source asked.
Grimm yesterday said he believes the vandalism “was very deliberate and it was politically motivated. I tend to think they were just looking to sabotage the system and erase the data so it would adversely affect my campaign.”
The incident comes as Brooklyn federal prosecutors continue investigating Israeli national Ofer Biton over his 2010 fund-raising for Grimm.