Kevin Dellicker, a former candidate for Congress in the Lehigh Valley, is one of 11 people whose Air Force records were improperly released.
According to a report from Politico, two sitting Republican lawmakers and nine others had their confidential military records released to a third party. An Air Force spokesperson told Politico that “virtually all” of the unauthorized releases were made to a third party that “represented himself as a background investigator seeking service records for employment purposes.”
The person who requested his records was employed by an opposition research firm with ties to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to a news release from Dellicker. According to Politico’s reporting, that person is Abraham Payton of the research firm Due Diligence LLC.
Dellicker, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, said he is still trying to find out what information was included in the records release. He said some of it is “harmless details” like where and when Air Force members were deployed, but those documents also contain sensitive information like his home address and Social Security number.
Dellicker said in a news release that he trusts that federal law enforcement will “investigate and prosecute this brazen attack on military information systems.”
“The military does not want to advertise all the details of its service men and women while they’re still serving for obvious reasons, and I think that is why this is so serious,” he said. “The main question I want to know is who paid for that firm to go find this information? And what became of it after it was in their possession? It’s a serious matter.”
He “wasn’t pleased” the Air Force did not follow procedures to protect his confidential information, according to the news release.
Dellicker ran for the Republican nomination for the Lehigh Valley’s congressional district in May and lost to Lisa Scheller by 2.5 percentage points. Dellicker campaigned as a “grassroots” challenger to Scheller, who secured more mainstream GOP endorsements and donations from PACs than Dellicker did. Scheller went on to lose the general election to Democratic incumbent Susan Wild.
Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber can be reached at liweber@mcall.com.
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