Exclusive: Prosecutor Is Closing In on Gov. Christie
Source: Esquire
“It’s over, it’s done, and I’m moving on.” -- Chris Christie, reassuring potential donors in Utah on June 14th
Back on planet Reality, meanwhile, Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, wades through the sewage of Christie’s stewardship. Two sources with intimate knowledge of the case say Fishman’s pace is quickening -- he has empaneled a second grand jury, and the U.S. Justice Department has sent assistant prosecutors and FBI agents to work the case.
“What’s taking the most time,” according to one source, “is separating what's viable from all the bad stuff they’re finding that may not be viable.”
Fishman’s challenge is to nail down specific criminal charges on several fronts -- the diversion of Port Authority money to fund New Jersey road and bridge projects; the four-day rush-hour closures of George Washington Bridge lanes in Ft. Lee; and a web of real-estate deals spun by David Samson, long a Christie crony, when he chaired the PA’s Board of Commissioners as Christie’s appointee. (One such deal, a stalled office-tower development in Hoboken, New Jersey, is central to a claim that Christie’s lieutenant governor told the town’s mayor that the state would withhold Hurricane Sandy relief aid from Hoboken if the mayor didn’t sign off on the development project.)
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I think I just soiled myself. 
It's very interesting that federal prosecutors are looking at connections with fundraising among these groups of republicans.
When I saw the Scott Walker thread...and now this...
I am so loving it!
Yellowcanine, shall we get you a mail order subscription for Depends to get you through the summer?!
At one time I had a legal mentor. This person has now passed on, but in his day was a very astute legal scholar and brilliant man. Whenever I would get down about the system performing, he would remind me that the system is slow, but it grinds away and eventually, it delivers.
Cher
I'm getting sick of waiting for this thing to unfold. They need to perp walk that asshole in front of a bank of cameras.
I hereby announce I am organizing a DU gathering to watch the perp walk. Interested parties should PM me.
Cher
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- Right now Christie's going: ''He looked me right in the eyes and he lied to me!''
does Obama look like he's being a bit patronizing to Christie?
That expression on Christie's face is pretty amazing when you consider that Obama got him all that dough and then Christie went off and spent it for his own corrupt political purposes, leaving the Sandy victims twisting in the winds.
There are no words that can describe the disgust I feel for Christie.
Cher
...would also be his undoing.
- I like to think it was planned this way.
Due to the fact that Christie was such a presidential contender for so long. The Dems had to have a profile on him and anyone with an ounce of sense can see that Christie is the type to hang himself, given enough rope.
The money Obama gave him was the rope.
And now it is Christie who is twisting in the winds.
Cher
of this either, laserhaas.
Thanks for enlightening us.
What a circle of corruption we have here.
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