Guess Who’s Back? Grimm eyeing run for his old Congress seat
In what could be the political equivalent of coming back from the dead, former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm is strongly considering running in 2018 for the House seat he resigned from two years ago, multiple sources told the Brooklyn Eagle.
Grimm, a Republican, resigned from Congress in disgrace in January 2015 after he was convicted of tax fraud. He spent seven months in a federal prison.
Once considered a rising star in the Republican Party, Grimm represented New York’s 11th Congressional District from 2010-2015. The district covers the entire borough of Staten Island and takes in a large swath of Southwest Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Gravesend.
NY1 reported on Grimm’s possible comeback on Aug. 3. The former lawmaker told NY 1 that he has not made any decisions yet about running for public office again.