The woman who approved the Stronger than the Storm campaign was with Christie on September 12,

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one of the days of the Fort Lee traffic jam. Michele Brown, CEO of the Economic Development Authority, was with him at the shore, watching the fire, on the same day that Bridget Kelly was there, texting with people about the traffic jam.

Michele Brown would have to approve any plans for a billion dollar redevelopment project in Fort Lee. The plan that Steve Kornaki says might have been threatened by the bridge traffic mess.

(Michele Brown also approved the contract that the Federal government is now investigating as improperly using Hurricane Sandy funds.)

So, on the day Kelly was texting back and forth with Wildstein and others about the traffic jam, she was with Christie and Christie was with Brown -- the woman who would have had to approve the economic development plans for Fort Lee.

But of course they weren't talking about Fort Lee, were they? They were all just coincidentally there, talking only about the fire, while Kelly texted other people about the traffic jam in Fort Lee.



The avejersey site currently has a shutdown server, so all I can show you is the paragraph I copied before I realized I'd want to reread the whole thing.

avejersey.com/2013/09/christie-en-route-to-seaside-fire/

Accompanying the Governor were New Jersey State Fire Marshall William Kramer, Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Richard Constable, and President of New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority Michele Brown.


(Note: that server is down, but this one isn't

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/09/christie_cancels_event_heads_to_seaside_park_as_fire_rages.html

Christie will be joined at the nearby Seaside Heights police station with State Fire Marshall William Kramer, Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Richard Constable, and Michele Brown, president of New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/12/steve-kornacki-chris-christie-bridge-scandal_n_4585830.html

MSNBC host Steve Kornacki floated a new theory as to why New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's staff and appointees engineered the closure of two lanes leading into the George Washington Bridge last year.

"It wasn't just the everyday lives of commuters and residents that were altered or in some cases jeopardized by what happened in Fort Lee," Kornacki explained. "Something else was affected and possibly jeopardized, something of enormous economic and political significance."

Kornacki explained that there is currently a billion dollar development project in Fort Lee, right next to where the lane closures occurred. The project is a keystone of Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich's tenure.

As Kornacki explains, the closure of two of the three access lanes may have been part of a larger effort to shut them down for good, which could have significantly diminished potential investors' interest in the project. Close the lanes, and the entire project could be derailed.

[monmouth3]

1. Michelle Brown has also been rumored to be a "love interest" of the Governor...n/t

[pnwmom]

2. Something tells me we're going to be hearing a lot more about her.

Her fingerprints seem to be everywhere.

[Bjorn Against]

3. It looks like this is not the first scandal involving Michelle Brown and Chris Christie.

I got curious when you posted this so I googled Michelle Brown's name and I found this 2009 article from the New York Times which suggests this is not the first time Christie has been involved with corrupt dealings with this woman...

Christie May Have Gotten Improper Aid
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: October 19, 2009

When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor’s office, he said he was merely helping a friend in need. He also said the aide, Michele Brown, had done nothing to help his gubernatorial campaign.

But interviews with federal law enforcement officials suggest that Ms. Brown used her position in two significant and possibly improper ways to try to aid Mr. Christie in his run for governor.

In March, when Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s campaign requested public records about Mr. Christie’s tenure as prosecutor, Ms. Brown interceded to oversee the responses to the inquiries, taking over for the staff member who normally oversaw Freedom of Information Act requests, according to federal law enforcement officials in Newark and Washington. The requested information included records about Mr. Christie’s travel and expenses, along with Ms. Brown’s travel records.

In mid-June, when F.B.I. agents and prosecutors gathered to set a date for the arrests of more than 40 targets of a corruption and money-laundering probe, Ms. Brown alone argued for the arrests to be made before July 1. She later told colleagues that she wanted to ensure that the arrests occurred before Mr. Christie’s permanent successor took office, according to three federal law enforcement officials briefed on the conversation, presumably so that Mr. Christie would be given credit for the roundup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/nyregion/20brown.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[pnwmom]

4. Yup. I've been googling her, too. Interesting stuff there.

She was a former prosecutor with no apparent background for the job she was given, and yet they gave her a large pay raise over the previous job holder -- and gave her a highly paid underling to do the job for her.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024326360

[Bjorn Against]

5. Thank you for researching this, I think you may have something here

[pnwmom]

6. It seems like she's got her tentacles everywhere. And she's got a direct link to Christie. n/t