Nancy Mace says staff 'sabotaged' her: Republican accuses ex-aides of ... trends now
Three months ago, Nancy Mace's office was in disarray.
The Republican Rep. fired or lost nine staffers from her Washington D.C. office in three months - and many of them trashed her to the media on the way out.
Now, the South Carolina lawmaker has dramatically hit back and accused the former aides of sabotage in an extraordinary interview with DailyMail.com.
Mace, 46, says the departed staffers mismanaged $1million, hacked her phone, spied on medical records, and even submerged electronic devices in water and deleted files to cover their tracks.
The mother-of-two claims they even went as far snooping on her childrens' calendars and would monitor doctor appointments.
Nancy Mace says her new staff are still repairing the damage left behind by her 'sabotaging' former aides
'I knew that they were sabotaging the office for a while. I didn't know to the extent that they were doing it,' Mace exclusively told DailyMail.com in a sit-down interview at her Capitol Hill home
Her new team is still trying to repair damage.
'I knew that they were sabotaging the office for a while. I didn't know to the extent that they were doing it,' Mace exclusively told DailyMail.com in a sit-down interview at her Capitol Hill home, the one at the center of a dispute between her and her ex-fiancé.
'They were signing my name on documents they didn't have permission to do - one of them submerged [my] electronic devices under water so we couldn't access their files. They deleted files, some of them deleted files off our server, so there'd be no documentation for the new staff that were coming in.'
In December, the congresswoman fired her chief of staff Dan Hanlon, then her deputy chief of staff, Richard Chalkey, and legislative director, Randal Meyer, resigned. A total of nine staffers had departed the office by February.
Mace went on: 'We had another former staffer that would leak the names of the new employees we were hiring so that negative stories could be written about them.'
'We even had interns quit because old staff threatened the interns, threatened that they would never get a job on the hill if they worked in my office.'
Mace said she had another former staff member who hacked her devices and was tracking her for nine months.
'Literally, they could see where I was at all times. They could see my kids' calendars, my doctors' appointments, my medical information.'
'The stories I have from some of my former staff are horrific, and were a massive invasion of my privacy.'
But not only that, she said.
Mace went on: 'We had another former staffer that would leak the names of the new employees we were hiring so that negative stories could be written about them'
'We're finding thousands of dollars in bills they didn't pay,' the congresswoman went on. 'Paperwork that didn't get filed that was supposed to.'
Mace was irate to find out that her staff had left close to $1 million on the table in her office budget. 'It was $400,000 in 2022 and close to half a million in 2023,' she said.
'It's our job to manage our office, be fiscally responsible, but to use everything we have to communicate our constituent services,' she said.
'If people don't know that, hey, you didn't get your IRS refund in 2020,w e'll help you or if you need an appointment at the VA, and you've waited for six months and you need assistance, we'll get that appointment for you. Heck, I'll even call the DMV if you can't get in the DMV.'
'That money could have also gone toward salaries, bonuses - especially if you're entry level, it's really hard to get by in D.C.,' she went on. 'It was really outrageous.'
It's not clear who exactly burned the bridge as the staff departed en masse. Mace claims her old staff was plotting against her, and she's found relief in a new group of aides she can trust. But former Mace employees have described a 'toxic' worked environment.
A source familiar with the daily operations of the office shot back: 'The swamp has truly gotten to
