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Associated PressPublished Wednesday | June 6, 2007
Ex-Girlfriend: I Have Nothing on Corzine
The Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine's former girlfriend and the leader of a state workers union said lavish post-breakup gifts she received from the Democrat weren't meant to buy her silence.
"There's absolutely nothing I have on Jon," his ex-girlfriend, Carla Katz, said in an interview with The New York Post published Wednesday.
Katz and Corzine dated from 2002 to 2004 when Corzine was a U.S. senator, and their relationship came under scrutiny because the multimillionaire Corzine gave Katz money when they broke up, just before Corzine began his gubernatorial bid.
He gave her $470,000 to pay off a home mortgage, and The New York Times recently reported that Corzine gave Katz more than $6 million in all.
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