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Wow...Boutons is really upset about this traffic jam.
Another Christie Buddy Had Knowledge Of Bridgegate Traffic Jam
A Port Authority police officer — a childhood friend of Chris Christie —toured the chaos in Fort Lee with David Wildstein.
MSNBC reported that do ents have emerged showing that a Port Authority police officer, who grew up with Governor Christie, drove with David Wildstein, another friend and former official linked to the scandal, to the access lanes near the bridge to survey the traffic jam. In addition, the Port Authority officer, named Thomas Michaels, sent text messages to Wildstein updating him on the impact of the lane closures on Fort Lee, New
Jersey. He told Wildstein, then a Christie appointee at the Port Authority, that he had ideas to “make this better.”
The revelation “is an important new detail because it places another person with long-time ties to the governor, this time in the Port Authority Police Department, at the scene witnessing the traffic surge that has since come to engulf Christie’s administration in legal inquires,” MSNBC reports.
In response to the new revelations, the executive director of the Port Authority has ordered the inspector general to investigate the police officers who were at the bridge during the lane closures.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ter959713&t=20
Wow...Boutons is really upset about this traffic jam.
Lol, even Bill Maher is tired of hearing about "bridgegate"
Even Before Fort Lee Lane Closings, Port Authority Was a Christie Tool
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/11...?from=homepage
whew, Christie affair OVER!
Chris Christie Clears Chris Christie of Any Wrongdoing
With his office suddenly engulfed in scandal over lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey two months ago summoned a pair of top defense lawyers from an elite law firm to the State House and asked them to undertake an extensive review of what had gone wrong.
Now, after 70 interviews and at least $1 million in legal fees to be paid by state taxpayers, that review is set to be released, and according to people with firsthand knowledge of the inquiry, it has uncovered no evidence that the governor was involved in the plotting or directing of the lane closings.
It will be viewed with intense skepticism, not only because it was commissioned by the governor but also because the firm conducting it, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has close ties to the Christie administration and the firm’s lawyers were unable to interview three principal players in the shutdowns, including Bridget Anne Kelly, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff.
Yet even though this "investigation" smells more like Christie graft than anything else, his team is talking it up as a clean bill of health,
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ter974179&t=12
Wall St votes for the corrupt Wall St grease bag for President!
Christie’s creepy misogyny: Behold his de able “blame Bridget” strategy
Randy Mastro’s report put the blame squarely on two fired staffers, David Wildstein and deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly. But its treatment of Kelly was mind-blowingly mean, describing her as “emotional,” “erratic” and as a liar; confirming Trenton gossip that she was “personally involved” with chief of staff Bill Stepien, and that Stepien apparently dumped her; alleging that she asked an aide to delete an incriminating email when the investigation began, thus implicating her not only in the plot’s execution but its coverup.
It even recommended that Christie abolish the department Kelly headed and fold it into another office. Mastro stopped just short of suggesting the state torch Kelly’s office and salt the earth it once stood on. That may be what Christie plans to announce at his press conference this afternoon.
Christie’s lawyers’ treatment of Kelly was so shoddy that Stepien, formerly the governor’s former right-hand man, was forced to release a statement denouncing the report’s “gratuitous reference” to his “brief” relationship with Kelly as “a regrettable distraction.”
Blaming the woman goes back to Eve, so it shouldn’t be particularly surprising. But I still find this story bizarre: Why is Christie so determined not only to blame his former allies, but to shame them? He himself called Kelly “stupid” in his two-hour pity-party last January, while he depicted Wildstein as a high-school loser to his student-athlete-president demigod. Now his lawyers have used Stepien to smear Kelly – and that’s pissed off not only Stepien but Kelly’s friends, who took to the New York Times to denounce the report’s heaping dose of sexism in its depiction of Christie’s once fiercely loyal aide.
Mastro’s report maligns Kelly’s competence from the beginning, noting that she was promoted to Stepien’s old job “though she lacked Stepien’s expertise and background.” It even resorts to inaccuracies to heap blame on Kelly, the New York Times reports, accusing her of canceling meetings with Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop after he declined to endorse Christie, when do ents show others in the administration canceled the meetings.
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/28/chri...0%9D_strategy/
Bridgegate is THE political controversy of our lifetimes.
yep, Darrin's always astoundingly correct.
The "lifetime" runs from from the bridge closing until the Repug 2016 Pres primaries.
Fat Bas is the Wall St bag that the Wall St bags want as bag President.
THAT's why it's an important controversy: the self-destruction of Fat Bas .
Good afternoon pussy.
Fat Bas roasted like a pig on spit!
Here's Joy Behar's Brutal Roast Of Chris Christie
The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza opened his latest piece with details from a roast earlier this month in Newark, N.J., where Chris Christie endured an onslaught of zingers.
Most of the speakers directed their punchlines at Christie, with comedian and former co-host of "The View" Joy Behar landing some devastating one-liners about the New Jersey governor's weight and the ongoing George Washington Bridge scandal.
Lizza described the painfully awkward moment that ensued:
Joy Behar, the former co-host of “The View,” was even more pointed. “When I first heard that he was accused of blocking off three lanes on the bridge,
I said, ‘What the is he doing, standing in the middle of the bridge?”
After another barb, Christie interrupted her. “This is a Byrne roast,” he said. He stood up and tried to grab her notes.
The audience laughed awkwardly.
“Stop bullying me,” Behar said as he sat down.
Christie said something out of earshot and Behar responded, “Why don’t you get up here at the microphone instead of being such a coward?”
Christie stood up again and moved in front of the lectern as Behar retreated. “At least I don’t get paid for this,” he said.
Christie sat down and Behar continued, though she was noticeably rattled.
“I really don’t know about the Presidency,” she said. “Let me put it to you this way, in a way that you’d appreciate: You’re toast.”
Lizza was kind enough to post video of Behar's routine.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joy-behar-chris-christie-roast
"Christie is toast, federal prosecutors have their teeth in ... and they ain't letting go,"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.U0RsFqhdWkc
Wall St's favorite greasbag is kaput.
totally weird, and hopeless, Wombat Hair Randian Paul will be screwed with all his past quotes and weirdness.
So who's gonna be the Repug 2016 candidate?
oh herrrrrrrooooo brutons dreux
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...-to-corruption
California state Sen. Leland Yee, a prominent Democratic lawmaker who pushed for more gun control, pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and conspiracy to traffic guns during an appearance in federal court on Tuesday.
The Sacramento Bee reports that Yee is facing up to 125 years in prison. The paper adds:
"Keith Jackson, a former Yee consultant and one of 29 defendants in the case, also pleaded not guilty at a joint arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero.
"Another major subject in the federal probe, Raymond "Shrimpboy" Chow, was allowed to postpone his plea after his new attorney, Tony Serra, asked for more time.
"Prosecutors assert that Jackson introduced Yee to several undercover agents posing as people seeking political favors in exchange for donations to Yee's campaigns for San Francisco mayor in 2011 and secretary of state in 2014."
"I've been covering San Francisco politics for 30 years, this is one of the oddest ones I've ever seen," Redmond said.
Redmond said, according the charging do ents, Yee was caught on tape cooking up a scheme which would import weapons — including automatic ones and even shoulder-launched rockets — from the Philippines to the United States.
Yee has since been suspended from the state Senate. The AP adds that his name and that of two other suspended lawmakers have been erased from the California State Senate website.
Christiegate: Christie Rigged NJ Ethics Agency, Ousting Director for Probing Christie Staffmember
From the Star-Ledger:
A complaint filed with the State Ethics Commission alleged that a member of Gov. Chris Christie’s staff used her state email account to influence her county health department to handle some feral felines on her property in Bordentown. A minor matter, it seemed.By the time it was over, the executive director of the ethics commission was out of a job at the request of the governor’s office, replaced by one of Christie’s own lawyers, who was later given a judgeship by the governor.
Now, three former commission officials, breaking four years of silence, are accusing the governor’s office of unprecedented interference with an agency set up to be free of political influence. Christie, they say, pushed the agency commissioners to replace the executive director — at a time when she was investigating a member of his own staff — thus crossing a line no other governor had before.
...
By Christmas, Wiechnik was told she would be removed as director.
Andrew Berns, the chairman of the ethics commission, summoned Wiechnik to a meeting in Trenton and told her she had to step down. Schluter said Berns explained the move to him by saying "the governor wants his own person."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...r?detail=email
Christie does his own Saturday Night Massacre.
A bridge too far? Scandal of the Pulaski Skyway may end Christie's presidential ambitions
CHRIS CHRISTIE’S BRIDGE TO OBLIVION?
In 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie singlehandedly killed a planned $8.7 billion commuter train tunnel under the Hudson River that virtually everyone else believed would ensure the future health of the New York region’s economy. Christie argued that it was just too damned expensive for the frugal times in which he governed, an argument that held little water then and has now sprung a ginormous leak.
This is because it turns out that Christie planned all along to use New Jersey’s share of tunnel construction dough to bail out the state’s highway and bridge system, which under his “leadership” had been driven deeply into debt.
This “chop shop option,” as one columnist aptly termed it, is paying for, among other things, the $1 billion reconstruction of the Pulaski Skyway, the heavily traveled main connector for the Holland Tunnel and an 82-year-old bucket of rust in such bad shape that nets have been installed to catch falling debris.
There was just one problem with Christie’s secret scheme: The unspent tunnel money is under the control of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, much in the news these days because the governor with a huge waistline and even bigger Republican presidential ambitions has used it as a patronage trough and personal piggy bank. (Then there are the infamous George Washington Bridge lane closures ordered by his administration — with the blessing of the man himself, in my view — as political retribution. This government-sponsored public safety crisis, when examined close up, was nothing less than a case of domestic terrorism, as shocking as that may seem.)
But I digress. By law, the authority can only fund roads leading to the GW Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel, but Christie got around that inconvenience by browbeating the authority’s lawyers into asserting that the Pulaski Skyway is an “access road” to the Lincoln Tunnel, which is about as far from the truth as Trenton is from Kiev.
This is not to say that the governor had other options.
The logical one would have been to raise New Jersey’s gas tax, which is the second lowest in the nation. Even a one-penny increase would raise about $50 million. You can do the rest of the math — and repair a lot of broken bridges and roads.
But Christie, a bully without peer, knows only one way to get things done. No, make that two: By lying and being underhanded.
Come to think of it, he would make a perfect Republican presidential nominee, but on top of all the other problems he has foisted on himself, the Pulaski Skyway deception will make his nomination a bridge too far.
http://themoderatevoice.com/193516/t...ur-discontent/
Bridgegate:boutons = Bengazi:FNC
You Lie
you boy Fat Bas is finished, Wall St's useful greasebag ain't gonna get the WH.
Chris Christie’s $300m pension proposal broke state anti-corruption laws (And now the intended recipient threatens to sue Pando)
A PandoDaily investigation has discovered evidence that Gov. Chris Christie’s pending deal to award a $300 million pension management contract to a controversial hedge fund is in violation of state anti-corruption laws.
New Jersey state pay-to-play statutes prohibit state contractors from directly or indirectly financially supporting the election campaigns of state officials. Those statutes also explicitly prohibit the use of outside groups or family members to cir vent that ban.
Additionally, separate Department of Treasury rules appear to prohibit public pension contracts from being awarded to investment firms whose employees have made significant financial contributions to political en ies organized to operate in New Jersey state elections. Those laws also bar investment firms doing business with the state from making contributions “for the purpose of influencing any election for State office.”
Yet, late last month, the New Jersey State Investment Council moved to award a controversial $300 million investment contract to Chatham Asset Management, despite the fact that Chatham’s principal, and a woman living at his address and sharing his surname, donated more than $50,000 to a Republican election group that oversaw major portions of Gov. Christie’s 2013 re-election operation. The proposed investment is already highly controversial given the hedge fund also reportedly owns a stake in the Atlantic City casino, Revel.
Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen, which originally lobbied for the pay-to-play statute, said that the $300m offer “appears to be not an indirect violation, but a direct violation of the law.”
New Jersey lawmakers seem to agree. “The optics are clearly horrible and the intent of the law is that this not happen,” said New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the co-leader of the New Jersey Legislative Select Committee on Investigation. “There is a violation of the pay to play laws where someone donates funds to the RNC that are later used in New Jersey, and then that person receives a contract – in this case, a management of a large amount of money in return.”
A spokesperson for Chatham Management appeared determined to distance the firm from the proposed (and already widely reported) deal, telling Pando: “Chatham Asset Management is not currently, nor has previously, managed funds for the State of New Jersey.”
Incredibly, they then threatened to sue me, and Pando, if we reported that they had agreed to accept the proposed deal, saying: “Please be advised that if you choose to run a factually incorrect story, we reserve all legal rights we may have against you and your employer.”
http://pando.com/2014/04/18/chris-ch...-to-sue-pando/
EXCLUSIVE: PROSECUTOR IS CLOSING IN ON GOV. CHRISTIE
“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.)
Whatever Christie says or does -- and whatever potential donors or Jimmy Fallon and his viewers think -- the question that truly matters is whether Fishman’s pursuit leads to the governor himself. Christie’s Port appointees -- not only Samson, but former PA Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni and his oddball sidekick David Wildstein -- all face near-certain indictment and are being pressed to hand up Christie, as is the governor’s former chief counsel, Charlie McKenna.
Wildstein, portrayed as the mastermind behind Ft. Lee’s traffic problems, has made proffers to Fishman’s investigators -- hoping to trade information to the prosecutor in exchange for gentler legal treatment -- but Fishman has cut no deals with anyone so far, and the looming indictments have encouraged Christie’s PA appointees to sing. “Don’t underestimate what Wildstein has on Christie,” says one source. “And Wildstein and Baroni have both turned on Samson. If Samson doesn't give Fishman Christie, Samson is toast.”
Federal charges in the bridge closures potentially include both intentional interference in interstate commerce and -- in the cover-up that ensued -- obstruction of justice.
The use of Port Authority money, raised by issuing bonds, to pay for non-PA projects will likely result in charges of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit same;
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is also investigating on this front, along with the Manhattan District Attorney, who’s seeking evidence to support state charges of falsifying business records and official misconduct.
Charges derived from David Samson’s numerous conflicts of interest while serving as a PA official could, in Hoboken’s case, include federal charges of extortion under the Hobbs Act, and New York state charges of official misconduct and corruption.
The clearest, quickest road to Christie, both sources agree, runs through David Samson, a former Attorney General of New Jersey who’s 74 years old and reportedly suffers from Parkinson’s disease. So: Will Samson flip?
“They’ve got him cold,” says one source. “He got sloppy, arrogant, and greedy. Samson will want a deal. This way, he’d get one or two years. He’d have a future on the other side. He won’t want to die in jail.”
Fishman’s timetable is unclear -- he has yet to send out target letters even to the lower-hanging fruit: Wildstein and Baroni, and Bridget Kelly and Bill Stepien, Christie’s former Deputy Chief of Staff and his former campaign manager, each deeply implicated in the Fort Lee/GWB debacle.
One source expects Fishman to return some indictments as soon as next month. Both sources say that all of those four certainly will be indicted -- and both further note that Fishman, an Obama appointee, hopes to see the entire matter resolved before this President’s term expires.
“But Fishman is really focused on Christie,” says one source. “Ultimately, he believes he'll get to the governor.
Big-ticket donors are gamblers; in politics, there are no certainties. The safest bet that is obvious: there’s no future for Chris Christie in the White House. The Big House is a safer bet, by far.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...-investigation
Interesting...
WWW dot Esquire dot com slash blog.
huh
legislative panel cleared the Wall St grease bag.
i dont like christie at all. but lol at the hysteria
Ally of Chris Christie Expected to Plead Guilty in George Washington Bridge Lane-Closing Case
former Port Authority official and ally of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is expected to plead guilty on Friday to the first charges stemming from the 16-month federal investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane closings scandal.
The United States attorney for New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, announced early on Friday that there would be a “proceeding of interest in a criminal matter” related to the closings at 11 a.m. in front of Judge Susan D. Wigenton in United States District Court in Newark. Mr. Fishman will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. to discuss the investigation, breaking his long silence over the inquiry.
David Wildstein, a high school classmate of Mr. Christie’s who ordered the closing of several access lanes to the bridge in September 2013, was expected to plead guilty before Judge Wigenton, according to people familiar with the case. The United States attorney’s office declined to comment on those or other details beyond the news conference.
Mr. Fishman is expected to announce other indictments in the case, but it was not clear who would be among those indictments.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/02...sing-case.html
I suppose Wildstein has turned, and incriminating Christie and/or team.
Chris Christie Wows Roast Crowd With Expletive-Filled Media Rant
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) gave a speech on Wednesday full of vulgarities directed at reporters over the George Washington Bridge scandal, New Jersey's finances, and his travel history.
"We don't give a about this or any of you," Christie told a crowd of 350 people at the Hamilton banquet hall on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg Politics.
The event was an annual event in New Jersey which features a roast of the sitting New Jersey governor. Elected officials, journalists, and lobbyists attend the event.
The New Jersey governor said one journalist should "open your eyes" and "clean the out of your ears."
"This is a guy who says he doesn't know what I'm doing every day," Christie said of another journalist according to the Bloomberg report.
"Then just get the away from me if you don't know what I'm doing."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...ar-journalists
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