The party, in turn, hired Haggerty to run an Election Day
voter protection operation, but later maintained he had never delivered that service, instead stealing some $ 750,000 worth of the billionaire mayor's money and using it to purchase the Queens home in which he grew up.
Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its
voter - analytics
operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password
protection for those two weeks.