New Jersey Senate Urges Judge To Reject Chris Christie's ExxonMobil Settlement

Source: Huffington Post and Reuters

New Jersey's state Senate passed on Monday a non-binding resolution that asks a judge to reject Governor Chris Christie's $225 million settlement with ExxonMobil, according to the New Jersey legislature website.

Christie, a likely Republican contender in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, settled on March 5 a long-running lawsuit over environmental damage from Exxon's Bayway and Bayonne oil refinery sites and certain other sites in New Jersey.

In the resolution approved on Monday, lawmakers condemned the settlement and urged the judge to reject it. They described the accord as "grossly inappropriate, improper, and inadequate and violates the public trust." (http://bit.ly/1El1KF3)

The New York Times reported in February a pending agreement in the lawsuit, which was potentially worth nearly $9 billion. That prompted questions about why Christie's administration would settle for so little after such a hard-fought legal battle.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/16/christie-exxon-settlement_n_6882524.html

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It's a start...

Folks in NJ may be starting to realize Chris Christie screwed the state out of $8.7+ Billion dollars from ExxonMobil.