Christie's brother bought, flipped Harrison lots near Port Authority project, report says

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/201...n_renovati.html

And the shoes continue to drop!!!






TIS

...the new york times..reports of the alleged"smoking gun"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/nyregion/christie-bridge.html?_r=0


wildstein is flipping

I'm thinking Bridgett Kelly will be next. She recently changed lawyers, from a Christie connected/appointed to another. At least that's my guess. Nobody's gonna wanna take a fall.


TIS

If Waldstein provides the unredacted documents that show Christie knew about the bridge closure, then Christie lied and he's toast.

Well, letter said "evidence exists" that Christie knew tho not sure yet what that evidence is. But yea, I agree, even IF CC did nothing illegal, it's pretty unethical and he is toast.

Which, btw, the closure of the bridge itself...is that illegal or more unethical?



TIS

The Repubs are scramblin' to find a Pres candidate and whose name comes up? HUCKABEE!

Is God a liberal? Seriously that's the only explaination for this never-ending good luck for the Dems. The only GOP candidate that I could see winning in '16, and he may have Dick Nixon-ed himself.

Rand Paul is now surely the favorite if indeed Christie is truely, to use the appropriate Jersyian verb for this occassion, "fucked."

Or is this Jeb Bush's opening?!?

Absolutely. Forget the primary; he'll resign.

Christie doesn't strike me as the type who resigns. He'd stay in office just to annoy his opponents.

Well thank God he had the time to show up at Howard Stern's 60th birthday party!

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/201...oids_press.html

Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark on Friday met privately with the chief lawyer for New Jersey lawmakers investigating the George Washington Bridge traffic jams and requested that the panel not take any steps that might interfere with its criminal probe, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The meeting, coming the same day that former Port Authority official David Wildstein's lawyer released a letter that said his client has "evidence" that might contradict Christie's public account, was the latest indication that U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman's office is aggressively investigating the so-called Bridgegate affair.

At the meeting, federal prosecutors asked that the special New Jersey legislative committee give them a heads up about any witnesses they might seek to call, said the sources, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity. The prosecutors want time to raise any objections that public testimony might compromise their own investigation.

Meadow Soprano is behind this. Christie's government was going after the narcotic prescription fraud scheme and she brought his government down to destroy his credibility

When the governor of a state has the opportunity to issue a press release regarding accusations, why compose much of it as a personal attack directed at your accuser. I would use the opportunity to only address the accusations.

I find it ironic that the personal attacks on his accuser call into question his honesty and integrity, yet this is the same person that met with the Governor's approval when he was named to head the Port Authority.

I find it ironic that the personal attacks on his accuser call into question his honesty and integrity, yet this is the same person that met with the Governor's approval when he was named to head the Port Authority.

And the attacks go back to high school saying his HS social studies teacher said he was "deceptive." That's all they got?

Btw, I know that Wildstein & now Bridgett Kelly both are taking the 5th refusing to testify and Kelley refuses to turn over documents. What happens next? Can they ever be made to turn in documents/records?


TIS

DM, you hit one of the nails on the head. In a prior post I questioned why Christie authorized the issuance of a criticism of the accuser about his high school era activity.

"Scandals"--often manufactured--come and go in politics, and are seldom consequential over time. What does remain is the impression the politico made in handling the scandal: Did he enhance our confidence in him, or not? Usually the politico has to make an early and overpowering counterattack, or create a case-closing admission or apology.

The Christie affair has dragged on far too long for him to have put it behind--much less enhance our view of him. It could get much worse.

And to think, CC convicted 100 govt. officials in five years as the US Attorney for New Jersey. And the saying goes, "what goes around, comes around." DUCK, Chris!

Hey New Yorkers ... and Jerseyites: on Piers Morgan, Ann Coulter stated that the lanes on the GW bridge do not empty out into Ft. Lee. Is that true?

The context in which AC made this statement might be in question here. The traffic jam was caused by lanes going into Manhattan, which backed up all the entrance roads leading into the bridge. All of those entrance roads pass through Ft. Lee. The largest artery entering the bridge is Interstate 95, which likely doesn't have an entrance road from Ft. Lee, but the other major entrance roads do; Rt 9-1-46 from the southwest and Rt 9W from the north. Ft. Lee secondary roads feed into these routes. The George Washington Bridge is designated as Interstate Rt 95 and State Rt 9 (of Springsteen "Born to Run" fame). The roads leading into the bridge are a tangled weave; not for the driving novice. The GW Bridge is a constant site of traffic delays and snarls. Rt 95 is the major route north to New England. I've many many trips over the GW; some good, some not so good. Nice view of Manhattan...if you're stuck in traffic.

Other direction was the issue - it was the entrance ramps that caused the traffic issues and turned Ft. Lee into a parking lot.

Who cares? No one gets to be governor of New Jersey by being a "good scout."

I still say Christie can get passed this

bump 4/13/15

indictments announced perhaps next week according to NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregi...andal.html?_r=0

Two indicted

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/nyregi...osing-case.html

excerpt

Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Bridget Anne Kelly, a former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, were charged with nine counts, including conspiracy to commit fraud by “knowingly converting and intentionally misapplying property of an organization receiving federal benefits.”

David Wildstein, another former Port Authority official and a high school friend of Mr. Christie, pleaded guilty at the United States District Court in Newark to conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy against civil rights.

5/04/15

Two key figures in New Jersey’s Bridgegate scandal appeared Monday in federal court, where they pleaded not guilty to charges that they bottlenecked the George Washington Bridge to exact revenge on a political opponent.

Bridget Kelly, Gov. Chris Christie’s former chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, his top appointee to the Port Authority, were each released on $150,000 bail on fraud and conspiracy charges in the scandal that has threatened the governor’s presidential hopes.

They were ordered to relinquish their passports, and their travel is limited to within the United States.

Kelly and Baroni are accused of helping to orchestrate a traffic jam on the busy George Washington Bridge in September 2013 as retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee for not endorsing Republican Christie in his re-election bid.

They were named in a nine-count indictment unsealed Friday after a yearlong investigation.

The indictment was handed up the same day that David Wildstein, who went to high school with Christie and later became a top official in the Port Authority, pleaded guilty to two criminal counts in connection with the bridge scandal.

Baroni professed his innocence.

“I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Baroni told reporters outside federal court in Newark.

“I am an innocent man, and that is why I turned over thousands of pages of my own documents to the prosecutors and the legislator. And that is why I will testify on my own behalf as soon as the trial begins. I will spend every day working to clear my name and get my reputation back.”

Baroni and Kelly have each called Wildstein “a liar” who is spinning stories in a bid to stay out of prison.

US Attorney Paul Fishman, who announced the indictments Friday, said the defendants had “callously victimized” the citizens of Fort Lee, NJ — on the west side of the bridge — by purposely scheduling the closing of access lanes on the first day of the school year, causing a huge traffic jam.

Although the indictments did not implicate Christie, the charges against his aides have not helped him with the public. A new Monmouth University poll said nearly 70 percent of the 500 New Jersey residents surveyed said they do not think the governor has been “completely honest” about what he knows about the Fort Lee traffic jam.

Who cares about this guy. No way he can be nominated in the Republican party. His donors are giving their money to Jeb Bush already.

The brain surgeon Carson the black guy is running. I might vote for him even if no one else does in the primary. Something about the guy speak I like.