Rehberg Fires Shriber

I wrote about this last week. Turns out that Todd Shriber, the weasel press secretary for US Representative Denny Rehberg, was canned by Rehberg’s Chief of Staff for trying to hire a hacker to alter his college grades.

From the Helena Independent here:

HELENA — Todd Shriber, press secretary for Rep. Denny Rehberg, was fired Thursday, immediately after he confessed to trying to hire computer hackers to break into the computers at his former college.

Erik Iverson, Rehberg’s chief of staff, said Friday, that he learned of the hacking incident Thursday after Rehberg’s Washington, D.C., office was contacted by a reporter with the on-line computing journal NetworkWorld.

Iverson said he talked to Shriber, who explained his efforts to hire hackers beginning in August to break into the computers of Texas Christian University and inflating his grades.

“When he was finished, I terminated him,” Iverson said.

Shriber, 28, had worked for Rehberg for about a year.

Iverson said he was surprised to learn about Shriber’s hacking efforts. “Todd is a good person,” he said. “He just did an incredibly stupid thing and, sometimes, when you do those things, there are consequences for your actions.”