Pssssssssst -huge -PA Executive Director Pat Foye wants investigation into PA cops' roles

[malaise]

http://www.northjersey.com/fortlee/Port_Authority_chief_wants_investigation_into_cops_roles.html#sthash.Cxq7KpCs.dpuf
<snip>
The Port Authority’s executive director on Sunday asked authorities to investigate the involvement of some of the agency’s police officers in the George Washington Bridge lane closures.

Executive Director Pat Foye’s request for an investigation by the Port Authority’s inspector general was spurred by two reports on Sunday, including one in The Record, that raised new questions about whether some officers at the bridge knew about the political motivations behind the lane closures or were used to deliver a message to the mayor of Fort Lee.
---
Oh dear! The shit will soon hit the fan!!!

[libdem4life]

1. I've wondered about this. Somebody had to direct the physical event of planning the timing,

setting out cones, directing the traffic...in real time. You know there were questions asked, like WTF and such. Not just some memos and phone calls and giggly staff members. Notwithstanding The Guv's cute sarcasm that he was doing it.

Maybe once he's wearing an orange jump suit, they can put him out on highway duty...cleaning up the beer and soda and McDonald's leftovers on the side of the road. Is it OK I'm smiling? LOL

Good for Pat Foye. He's waited a while, so being lawyered up and all, he should be a positive factor in solving this mess. I'm sure he had to get the OK from Cuomo who has been a bit quiet, if not quietly supportive of CC.

[libdem4life]

7. Just found it...missed it.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10024513311

"A longtime friend of Chris Christie's was involved in the infamous George Washington Bridge lane closures, MSNBC's Steve Kornacki revealed on Sunday.

According to Kornacki, Thomas Michaels is a Port Authority police officer who grew up in the same town as the New Jersey Governor. He even coached Christie's son in hockey.

On the day of the traffic jam, Kornacki explains, Michaels was on site with David Wildstein, the Port Authority official who ordered the closures. He also reportedly sent text messages to the embattled Christie aide about the situation. It's not clear if Michaels was privy to any wrongdoing....."

[malaise]

14. More here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024508673

[libdem4life]

20. Thanks.

[malaise]

8. Way more than that - see Kornacki's exposure yesterday

Thomas (Chip) Michaels drove Wildstein around on day one of the mess they created and also knew about the plans the night before - there is a paper trail. He and his brothers (including Jeff Michaels) are well known Christie friends from childhood. Jeff is the lobbyist and politician with some big Christie links.

[libdem4life]

11. Was watching basketball last night. I should know better. LOL. Off to MSNBC.

[malaise]

12. Ha

you can find it on this link as well

[libdem4life]

13. Oops...the link...I'm dying to see it.

[Coyotl]

2. Pennsylvania?

[DURHAM D]

4. PA = Port Authority

[Greybnk48]

5. PA = Port Authority

It confused me for a moment too.

[Coyotl]

6. No confusion here, just Grammar Police.

If you use an accepted abbreviation for something other than its common meaning, you need to denote the usage first.

[2pooped2pop]

15. official rule?

or just one you think we should follow?

[FSogol]

16. Common sense?

[Coyotl]

19. Indeed, conveying the true meaning in a headline.

Writing for the reader is courteous.

[thesquanderer]

22. Writing P.A. instead of PA would be clearer, at least you'd know it wasn't the state (n/t)

[2pooped2pop]

23. I agree it would have.

I just don't think I would have been petty enough to bring it up.

[DURHAM D]

3. Finally. New York may be waking up.

This should be fun.

[libdem4life]

9. Cuomo's been awake, just probably politically afraid to get into the fray. It's not like he doesn't

have scandals lurking around. That's how all of this stays in place. Everyone has something on everyone else.

I'm thinking that since it didn't go away quickly and more things are being unearthed, he calculated that his risk was minor, so unleashed Foye...the Good Guy.

Lord, I'm running out of popcorn.

[rocktivity]

21. DING DING DING! Libdem4life, you're our grand prize winner!

Cuomo's been awake, just probably politically afraid to get into the fray...

Which only makes sense, since he also has an eye on the White House. But you're right in that he'd better tread carefully. If it's true that Christie asked him to lean on Foye, or if it even appears that he's assisted in the coverup, Cuomo's politically dead in the water, too.


rocktivity

[malaise]

24. Right on cue- How Far Will Christie Drag Down Cuomo?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/christie-cuomo
<snip>

When I started work in 2005 on a series of Esquire stories about rebuilding the World Trade Center, I began by reading about the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, owner of those sixteen acres and builder of the Twin Towers. It would’ve been helpful to talk with someone at the Port Authority, too, but no one at the agency would talk to me -- for years.

But the more I studied the PA’s history, and spoke with folks who’d worked there, and reported on the rebuilding, the clearer the picture became: The Port Authority that had built the bridges and tunnels -- led by its own corps of capable professionals -- no longer existed. An agency created nearly a century ago to keep politicians’ mitts out of the essential and insanely complex task of moving people and goods into and out of New York City was now a Punch-and-Judy show, with the PA as Judy.

Cuomo’s man at the PA, executive director Patrick Foye, was so disengaged from the day-to-day business of the place that Christie’s goons -- led by Foye’s deputy director, the now-departed Bill Baroni, and special ops expert David Wildstein -- planned and executed the Great Ft. Lee Clusterfk while Foye somehow slept through it for four days. If Pat Foye was sandbagged, he’s a simpleton: His predecessor at the Port kept daily watch over David Wildstein.

As for Cuomo, it’s possible that he underestimated Christie’s reach, or failed to discern that his own national political ambitions might be threatened by it. Given the line of New Jersey goobers pre-Christie -- including Jim "I am a gay American" McGreevey and the charlatan Jon Corzine -- perhaps Governor Christie just struck Governor Cuomo as both a paisan and an open-handed PA partner. Even so -- and even if Cuomo was as shocked by Christie’s thuggery as Pat Foye seemed -- his silence ever since, for whatever reason, is an ongoing dereliction of his own duty, and a stain upon his character.

[malaise]

10. Oh yes - New York is very smart

The police link is a serious problem for the goons and that Michaels' link to Christie is well known

[DiverDave]

17. HEE-HEE the noose tightens.

but the repuke faithful will love him more.

[malaise]

18. Truth is this is frightening

what these scumbags do to people in the name of politics - is anything not corrupt?