Fort Lee provides mayor an attorney for GWB probes
Source: Bergen Record
Thursday, February 6, 2014 Last updated: Thursday February 6, 2014, 10:11 PM
BY LINH TAT STAFF WRITER
FORT LEE — Mayor Mark Sokolich will have a borough-paid attorney representing him during further involvement in multiple investigations into whether George Washington Bridge access lanes were closed by associates of Governor Christie as payback for the mayor’s decision not to endorse the governor’s reelection.
The Borough Council voted unanimously Thursday to retain criminal defense attorney Timothy M. Donohue, a partner at Arleo, Donohue & Biancamano, LLC, in West Orange. Donohue has experience with jury trials in federal and state courts and has been retained by a number of local, county and state public officials, according to his firm’s website.
Sokolich has not been subpoenaed, but council members thought it would be prudent to have an attorney ready should he be ordered to submit documents or to testify, officials said.
A legislative panel is investigating whether access lanes to the world’s busiest bridge were shut down without notice for four days in September to intentionally create havoc in Fort Lee. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also is probing whether federal laws were broken.
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