Ex-Christie administration member lobbied for train station that would've boosted project........
Source: Bergen Record
Ex-Christie administration member lobbied for train station that would've boosted project cited by Hoboken mayor
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Last updated: Wednesday February 12, 2014, 12:16 PM
BY KAREN ROUSE AND JOHN REITMEYER
STAFF WRITERS
A former Christie administration official lobbied NJ Transit to build a train station that would benefit a $1 billion office and residential complex being proposed for the Hoboken waterfront — the same complex the city’s mayor claimed she was pressured to fast-track or risk losing Sandy aid.
Records show that the lobbyist argued for the station within months of an agreement signed with NJ Transit to move forward on the rail project. That lobbying occurred in the spring of 2013 — the same time period that Mayor Dawn Zimmer said she was pressured by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
The lobbyist, Lori Grifa, works for Wolff & Samson, the law firm founded by former state Attorney General David Samson.
Samson is also a central figure in the crisis Governor Christie is confronting over the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge. Samson was appointed by Christie to be chairman of the Port Authority and met with Christie on the day The Record reported the now-infamous email, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave".........
There's also a link to a "non-binding" agreement between NJ Transit and the developer here:
http://dng.northjersey.com/media server/tr/2014/02/hoboken/hobokenrockerfellernjtransit.pdf
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