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Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 24, 2020, on the extension of federal unemployment benefits.
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A consequential primary in the 1st District of Massachusetts between Rep. Richard Neal and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse is taking place on Tuesday.
Neal, 71, is the chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee.
Morse, 31, the first openly gay mayor of the college town of roughly 40,000, ran on a progressive platform with endorsements from the AOC-wing Justice Democrats, the Sunrise Movement, and Andrew Yang.
Polls in Massachusetts closed at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Because Massachusetts does not allow election officials to begin processing mail-in ballots until the polls close on Election Day, the race may not be called on election night.
The stakes:
A contentious primary in Western Massachusetts with major implications for House Democratic leadership is wrapping up on Tuesday.
Rep. Richard Neal, chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee, is facing a primary challenge from the left in the 1st District from Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse.
Neal, 71, has served in Congress since 1989, formerly the mayor of Springfield. He has one of the most influential positions of power in Washington atop the House Committee on Ways and Means, holding an iron grip on most key pieces of legislation in the House due to the committee's role in determining and appropriating the funding for legislation.
The district, which includes all of Berkshire and Hampden counties, is safely Democratic and voted for 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by over 20 points in 2016.
Morse, 31, was 22 when he became the first openly gay mayor of the college town of roughly 40,000. He's running on a progressive platform of expanding healthcare, including Medicare for All, economic justice, and expanding access to housing.
Morse's team has branded Neal as "corporate America's favorite Democrat," highlighting the millions of dollars in support he's received from corporate interests over this years, slamming him for holding up legislation on surprise medical billing and other progressive priorities, and, in their view, stalling action on demanding President Donald Trump's taxes, the Huffington Post noted.
Neal's campaign has countered that his decades of experience in Congress and his hold of the Ways and Means gavel allows him to deliver on concrete assistance for the district, whose rural areas have been hit hard by COVID-19, and passing legislation on some of the biggest Democratic priorities.
Morse has received endorsements from key progressive political figures and groups including Justice Democrats, OurRevolution, the Sunrise Movement, the Massachusetts Nurses' Association, and former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, in addition to a large cohort of local organizations and leaders.
The high-profile race has also attracted a fair amount of outside spending, Federal Election Commission records show. Indivisible, the Justice Democrats, MoveOn's PAC, and the Nurses' Association have all spent money in the race supporting Morse and opposing Neal. The Democratic Majority for Israel PAC, the American Hospital Association, and the American Working Families PAC, a single-candidate PAC created to support Neal, are spending money supporting Neal.
The race's received national attention when the student Democrats at UMass Amherst's chapter of the College Democrats of Massachusetts accused Morse of misconduct. In a letter sent to the UMass school paper, the Daily Collegian, the students said Morse used his position teaching a political science course on campus and appearances at student Democrat events to find male students for romantic relationships.
But subsequent reporting by The Intercept revealed a plot by two members of UMass Dems leadership to sabotage Morse's campaign, with one student reportedly banking on a job with Neal's office. The Intercept also reported that leaders of the state's Democratic party assisted and advised students in bringing the allegations to light, despite the state party having an official stance of not getting involved in primaries.
Morse has been adamant that he never had a non-consensual encounter with a student. "I want to be clear that every relationship I've had has been consensual. However, I also recognize that I have to be cognizant of my position of power," he said.
The Neal campaign has denied any collaboration with the students, and just days before Election Day on August 29, the leadership of the UMass wrote a letter apologizing to Morse and issued a public statement expressing regret for the way they presented the allegations and for any way in which their statement invoked homophobic tropes about gay men.
"Some political observers think the scandal may have actually helped Morse, raising his profile in the district and rallying die-hard progressive activists and members of the LGBTQ community to his cause," the Huffington Post reported, noting that Morse raised $130,000 on the day the first Intercept article was released.
Twitter suffered a major breach last month which resulted in hackers obtaining more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
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A fourth suspect is being investigated on suspicion of being involved in last month's massive Twitter hack that hijacked dozens of high-profile accounts, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
According to The Times, federal authorities are looking into a 16-year-old in Massachusetts who sources claimed may have played a key, if not leading role in the hack, though he has not yet been charged.
Last month, Florida teen Graham Ivan Clark was arrested by state authorities and charged with 30 felony counts in connection with the heist, while two other alleged accomplices were charged by the US Department of Justice.
The July hack compromised the accounts of VIP users including Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye West, which hackers used to access private messages and account data as well as post tweets soliciting scam Bitcoin donations.
Federal agents in Massachusetts are investigating a 16-year-old who they believe played a key role in a high-profile Twitter hack last month, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Sources involved in the investigation claim the teen helped plot and carry out major aspects of the breach, including gaining access to Twitter's internal admin systems via social engineering attacks on its employees, according to the report.
The Times also reported that the teen has not yet been charged with any crime and that the court documents have not been made public, but an FBI spokesperson told the newspaper that agents served the teen with a warrant and raided the house in Massachusetts where he lives with his parents.
The arrest is notable given the teen's age, especially given the arrest last month of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark in Tampa, Florida, as well as the Department of Justice's announcement that it had charged 22-year-old Nima Fazeli of Orlando and 19-year-old Mason Sheppherd of the United Kingdom in connection with the hack.
State authorities in Florida will handle Clark's case, as they have more leeway in prosecuting minors than federal authorities — a similar approach would be likely in the Massachusetts teen's case if charges are eventually filed.
Twitter declined to comment and the FBI could not be immediately reached.
In mid-July hackers used Twitter's internal admin tools to compromise the accounts of prominent people and companies after obtaining Twitter employees' login credentials through various "social engineering" attacks. The compromised accounts then tweeted that they were feeling "generous" and would match people's Bitcoin donations. The DOJ said that generated more than 400 transfers to the scammers' cryptocurrency wallet worth more than $100,000.
Victims of the hack included former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, Floyd Mayweather, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Apple, Uber, and the cryptocurrency exchanges KuCoin, Coinbase, Gemini, and Binance. The DOJ said more than 100 accounts were hijacked in total.
