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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Mon May 26, 2014, 09:31 AM May 2014

Christie's Hunterdon County-Gate: Don't let it get buried.

There's a lot more going on with Christie and Co. besides Bridge-ghazi.

Michael Powell in NYT turned over this particular rock some time back been a pit bull on the topic ever since.

No one else seems to care. Here's to Memorial Day.


>>>William McGovern was a prosecutor out of central casting, a tough, careful fellow who has tried murderers and money launderers during a distinguished career in New Jersey.

So he seemed a natural man to turn to in 2010 when the Hunterdon County prosecutor needed to investigate a politically sensitive case centering on the county’s Republican sheriff and two deputies who had connections to the new Republican governor, Chris Christie. Mr. McGovern, who is a Republican, led the investigation, took the case to a grand jury and emerged with a 43-count indictment, alleging abuses of power.

On the day the indictment was unsealed, the New Jersey attorney general seized control of the Hunterdon prosecutor’s office and soon took the highly unusual step of quashing those nettlesome indictments. That shook the entire office; another prosecutor, Bennett Barlyn, complained that the decision was corrupt, and security guards escorted him out of the office. Within weeks, he was fired.

Not long after, Dermot O’Grady, the deputy attorney general put in charge of Hunterdon, called Mr. McGovern into his office. He advised him: Stay quiet. He told the prosecutor it “wouldn’t t

the rest at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/nyregion/in-new-jersey-a-prosecutors-office-an-indictment-and-intimidation.html?mabReward=RI%3A9&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.®ion=Footer&module=Recommendation&src=recg&pgtype=article

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Christie's Hunterdon County-Gate: Don't let it get buried. (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus May 2014 OP
"Bridge-ghazi" - I like that!! JEFF9K May 2014 #1
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