Back home for a couple of weeks, he's been blasted by constituents at two Town Hall meetings, one in Bay Ridge and one in Staten Island, and called out by the city's Public Advocate -- and potential Democratic rival -- Bill DeBlasio, about his role in a Queens nightclub brawl in 1999.
According to a recently-published New Yorker Magazine article, Grimm, then an FBI undercover known as "Mikey Suits", took a date, a married Caribbean woman, to the Caribbean Tropics Nightclub in Queens, where the woman's estranged husband just happened to be hanging out.
Things got all Martin Scorcese from there on out.
When the husband noticed that his wife had walked in on the arm of a white dude -- maybe the only one in the place -- he confronted Suits, and the two men got into a heated argument.
Enter the bouncer: moonlighting NYPD officer Gordon Williams said he broke up the argument and separated Suits and his date from her husband.
But Suits was hot: he didn't want to let it go.
He took his date home and returned to the club at 2:30 AM.
The jealous husband was still there -- and now there were three other guys with him.
Fisticuffs ensued: Suits, a total badass, put three men on the floor. The fourth fled.
Williams said Suits flipped out at that point and flashed his gun, threatening to kill the husband.
Suits then left the club again.
Round Three: at 4:30 AM, Suits returned with backup: an FBI agent and several police officers.
According to Williams, Suits rounded up everyone in the club, telling them the FBI was in control of the scene and offering any white people present the chance to leave.
Other than the Staten Island Advance, Grimm has refused to talk to the press about the New Yorker article, saying that it's full of lies, a witch hunt.
Yes, he took out his gun, but he didn't wave it around, he said, he only moved it from one holster to another because he didn't like the look of the bouncers.
Grimm outed Williams, who he said refused to call 911 after the brawl, to the NYPD, causing Williams to be suspended from his job. The now-retired Williams has carried a grudge against him ever since, Grimm said.
A lawsuit Williams filed against Grimm was dismissed after the U.S. Attorney stepped into the case on Grimm's behalf.
Dismissing DeBlasio's demand that he release the investigative reports about the 1999 incident as "political grandstanding", Grimm called Williams' allegations in the New Yorker article "ridiculous".
The article from the Brooklyn Paper.
Evan Ratliff, who wrote the New Yorker article, responds to Grimm's comments about the article to the Staten Island Advance [New Yorker.]
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