While former Shuster Congressional aide Joshua Juda remains quiet, new information has surfaced verifying that candidate Michael DelGrosso and his wife moved into their Tipton neighborhood in February of this year.
\n\u201cI saw the moving trucks myself,\u201d said Justin Myer, spokesperson for DelGrosso for Congress. \u201cThey did not keep their house in Washington, D.C. and DelGrosso\u2019s wife, Sherry, is here and travels with her job from hospital to hospital making presentations to nursing managers.\u201d
\nIn Juda\u2019s initial press release, he stated he was instructed on two separate days in September to go down and watch DelGrosso\u2019s house because the Shuster campaign believed that DelGrosso was not living there. Congressmen Bill Shuster denied the allegations during a press conference held last Friday in Breezewood. Shuster told media representatives that at no time was Juda instructed to spy and lie about it.
\nIn a October 17, 2003 letter to the editor, residents of the Tipton neighborhood indicated that on two occasions, Sept. 11 and 12, 2003, that several neighbors noticed a young man in a red Volkswagen Jetta lurking in their development. Residents at that point called the State Police in Hollidaysburg and gave a description of the vehicle and its driver. That person ended up being Joshua Juda.
\nThe DelGrosso camp also told The Daily Herald this morning that at no time has it ever talked to Joshua Juda.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve never met him, talked to him, or emailed with him at any time,\u201d said Myers.
\nState Police Sergeant Timothy Mercer, the officer in charge of the alleged spying incident states that no one from Congressmen\u2019s Shuster\u2019s office has contacted state police regarding the incident. Shuster says he plans to meet with House Ethics Committee members to discuss the situation and ask for a review of office policies. As of yesterday, no meeting has been scheduled.
\nThe alleged surveillance began on June 6, 2003 at a fundraiser held at DelGrosso Park. Juda has indicated that Shuster wanted to know if anyone was changing sides and that he passed the names over his cellphone to Shuster aide Amy Hanna.
\nAlso, according to Juda, he planned to stake out a fundraising reception held at the Tipton home of Wally Rossi, a local real estate agent.
\n\u201cI did have a fundraiser for Michael at my home and 40 people attended,\u201d Rossi told The Daily Herald this morning.
\nRossi is not aware of any stakeout activities at his home, but called the allegation \u201cdisturbing.\u201d
\nCalls to Congressional aide Amy Hanna, who runs the Hollidaysburg office, for Congressmen Shuster, were not returned this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While former Shuster Congressional aide Joshua Juda remains quiet, new information has surfaced verifying that candidate Michael DelGrosso and his wife moved into their Tipton neighborhood in February of this year. \u201cI saw the moving trucks myself,\u201d said Justin Myer, spokesperson for DelGrosso for Congress. \u201cThey did not keep their house in Washington, D.C. and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}