Rep. Nancy Mace (RS.C.), who has experienced a series of staff layoffs and layoffs, accused her former employees of sabotage and invading her privacy in a new interview.
“I knew they were sabotaging the office for a while. I didn’t know to what extent they were doing it,” Mace told the Daily Mail in an article published Friday.
A total of nine Mace employees left his office between December 2023 and February 2024, the news outlet reported. Prior to that, four employees left during a six-week period between July 1 and August 15, 2021.
She said her staff signed her name on documents without permission and “one of them submerged her electronic devices in water so we couldn’t access her files.” She claimed they would delete the files so new employees wouldn’t have access to them.
The South Carolina representative and mother of two said one of her employees hacked into her devices, tracking her for nine months with access to her children’s calendars and Mace’s doctor appointments and medical information. She added that former employees also mismanaged nearly $1 of her office budget.
A staff member leaked the names of new hires in an attempt to write negative stories about them, and interns quit because former employees threatened that “they would never get a job over the hill if they worked in my office,” she claimed. .
“The stories I have from some of my former employees are horrific and represented a massive invasion of my privacy,” Mace said.
Some former employees described Mace’s office as a toxic work environment. Two former employees who spoke to the Daily Mail denied that their personal devices were hacked and said it was routine for members to share their calendars with employees.
The former advisors also said that each office has a “common” stamp with the signatures of its members.
At one point, her former chief of staff, fired in December, Dan Hanlon, filed to run against her in the 2024 Republican primary in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Hanlon filed the end of the campaign two months later.
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