Republican ex-congressman Michael Grimm asks for $2.5 million to help him walk again after polo accident

Former Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is asking for $2.5 million to help him walk again after being seriously injured in a polo accident.

Grimm, 54, was paralyzed from the chest down during a polo match in September and is now being treated at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey.

His Newsmax colleague, Greg Kelly, revealed on his radio program that the accident occurred during a polo match on September 22 and that the former politician ‘severely damaged his neck’ after being ‘thrown from the horse’.

“He’s a great rider,” Kelly said. “Please say a prayer.”

Former NYC City Councilman Vincent Ignizio started one GoFundMe for the former FBI agent, who asked for $2.5 million in donations to pay for treatment to help him “walk again.”

“He has been in the most devastating situations and by the grace of God and the amazing medical teams that helped him, Mr. Grimm miraculously inserted the needle to survive,” he wrote in the fundraiser, which has so far raised more than $430,000.

“Yet his continued care and treatment to walk again will cost millions of dollars.”

The former Marine has been an avid polo player for years and has regularly competed in tournaments in the Hudson Valley The New York Times.

“If there is anyone who can show the strength and will to ensure his full recovery, it is Michael Grimm,” Ignizio told The New York Times.

“He’s a tough Marine and a tough patriot, and we’re all just praying.”

Grimm, who notoriously threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony during the 2014 State of the Union, represented Staten Island and part of Brooklyn in Congress from 2011 to 2015.

A federal investigation into Grimm’s fundraising that began in 2012 ultimately resulted in a 20-count indictment against a restaurant Grimm operated in Manhattan.

Prosecutors said he underreported wages and income to the government and filed false tax documents.

Grimm won re-election in 2014 despite the indictment, but pleaded guilty to one count of tax fraud the following month.

He resigned from Congress in January 2015 and served eight months in prison.

Grimm attempted a comeback in 2018, but lost a Republican primary for his old district to incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan, who then lost the general election to Democrat Max Rose.

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis defeated Rose in 2020 and has represented the district since.

Grimm recently worked as an anchor at Newsmax.