Prosecutors Subpoena Port Authority for Records on Chairman

[hrmjustin]

TED MANN and HEATHER HADDON

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey subpoenaed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey this week, seeking records related to the private business interests of the agency's chairman, David Samson.

A person familiar with the matter said the subpoena seeks records concerning Samson and two of the largest projects currently under way at the authority: the replacement of the Goethals Bridge, and the raising of the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge.

Mr. Samson, a former attorney general of New Jersey and an appointee of Gov. Chris Christie, has been under scrutiny in the months since the governor's associates triggered a scandal at the authority by closing lanes—apparently for political ends—leading to the George Washington Bridge.

Lawmakers and federal prosecutors have raised questions about the intersection between Mr. Samson's public duties as chairman of the authority and his private business, as a partner in the law firm Wolff & Samson.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304747404579447560630627506?mod=WSJ_NY_News_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj

[rocktivity]

1. Please post this on the Christie Crime Digest

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024395877

Its author, DUer Laxman, is also running Crime Digest threads for NC governor Pat McCory and WI governor Scott Walker, so he needs all the extra help he can get, LOL!

But seriously, folks, this is BIG news, because if "the federales" can nail Christie for allowing Samson to treat the PA as his personal money trough, both they and state investigators can tell Kelly, Wildstein and Associates: "We don't have to show you no stinking immunity!"


rocktivity

[hrmjustin]

2. Done.