Go figure: Indictment may not sink Michael Grimm
A 20-count federal indictment and threatening to toss a reporter off a balcony might disqualify a congressmen in a bid for a third term.
Not in feisty Staten Island and a stretch of Brooklyn, where defiant voters are standing by pugnacious Republican Michael Grimm.
They’re dismissing the actions at the heart of his legal woes — charges of tax evasion, fraud, cash payments to illegal workers at a Manhattan restaurant — as unsavory but typical in New York.