Legal counsel for PACleanSweep and its founder Russ Diamond today filed an Motion to Amend and a First Amended Complaint in their ongoing federal suit against House Republican staffer Bob Nye and others. The First Amended Complaint includes evidence of computer activity within the Capitol in Harrisburg in connection with Nye’s anti-PACleanSweep website.

An email notice regarding the website, carrying a domain name registered by Nye on February 8, was distributed to PACleanSweep supporters, candidates and coordinators in the early morning hours of February 11 and grabbed headlines across the state just before candidates for state office were to begin gathering signatures to get their names on the May 16 primary ballot.

The Amended Complaint includes evidence from logs provided in response to a federal subpoena which indicates that at least one computer with an IP number assigned inside the Capitol logged activity on the anti-PaCleansweep website on February 9-10, before the information was disseminated to the general public. Also included is evidence of subsequent activity from at least five other IP numbers within the Capitol, from both the state House and the Senate.

Nye submitted a declaration to the Federal Court claiming he worked alone constructing the website, using only a personal computer located at his home in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County.

View the Amended Complaint

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