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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest Volume III [View all]Laxman
(2,419 posts)64. Some Confirmation From Other Sources....
regarding the fact that Sokolich's endorsement was a valuable commodity to Mr. Christie-along with a window into how loyalists or dissenters were either rewarded or punished.
Was Fort Lee mayor a long-term political target?
David Wildstein, the former Port Authority executive at the heart of the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, was planning to leave the agency in 2013 to work on Governor Christies presidential campaign, according to a former colleague.
That colleague, Jay Alpert, a Port Authority police captain at the time, said in an interview that Wildstein also indicated in June 2012 that he had a more immediate goal: securing the endorsement of the Fort Lee mayor for Christies 2013 reelection as governor.
Alperts account, if true, would provide the clearest confirmation yet that the sustained courtship of Fort Lees mayor began at least a year and a half before the election, and suggests Wildstein believed he had a future role in Christies potential ascent to national office.
Alpert was one of dozens of Christie loyalists whom the administration recommended for jobs at the Port Authority. He was fired two years later, in September 2012, after an internal investigation found he had cited a diploma from a sham online university among his educational credentials.
He claimed in a lawsuit that his firing was retaliation for reporting wrongdoing in the agency police department that was unrelated to the lane closures. The Port Authority denied that it had retaliated against him, saying that its investigation of his résumé was a part of a deep background check it undertook when he was a police captain.
A judge recently dismissed Alperts suit, prompting him to speak publicly for the first time about his interactions with Wildstein and others at the Port Authority.
Wildstein, who resigned from the Port Authority at the end of 2013, declined to comment through his attorney.
David Wildstein, the former Port Authority executive at the heart of the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, was planning to leave the agency in 2013 to work on Governor Christies presidential campaign, according to a former colleague.
That colleague, Jay Alpert, a Port Authority police captain at the time, said in an interview that Wildstein also indicated in June 2012 that he had a more immediate goal: securing the endorsement of the Fort Lee mayor for Christies 2013 reelection as governor.
Alperts account, if true, would provide the clearest confirmation yet that the sustained courtship of Fort Lees mayor began at least a year and a half before the election, and suggests Wildstein believed he had a future role in Christies potential ascent to national office.
Alpert was one of dozens of Christie loyalists whom the administration recommended for jobs at the Port Authority. He was fired two years later, in September 2012, after an internal investigation found he had cited a diploma from a sham online university among his educational credentials.
He claimed in a lawsuit that his firing was retaliation for reporting wrongdoing in the agency police department that was unrelated to the lane closures. The Port Authority denied that it had retaliated against him, saying that its investigation of his résumé was a part of a deep background check it undertook when he was a police captain.
A judge recently dismissed Alperts suit, prompting him to speak publicly for the first time about his interactions with Wildstein and others at the Port Authority.
Wildstein, who resigned from the Port Authority at the end of 2013, declined to comment through his attorney.
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I know what you mean.. There's been so much illegality in the christie admin and from christie
Cha
May 2015
#9
my first thought when I saw skinny Wildstein was "the people behind Christie radiation poisoned him"
Backwoodsrider
May 2015
#33
Also known as "Christie's Forty-Seven-Percent-Moment" (Good-natured jabs, my donkey)
rocktivity
May 2015
#50
Is Christie's publicly-financed self-exonerating Mastro report about to come back to haunt him?
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#56
You rock Laxman!!! While the non-memories of "Fitzmas" still hurt, I think this is different...
winstars
Jun 2015
#61
I have said all along, he will never get convicted of any crime. He seems to let others....
Logical
Jun 2015
#73
Christie's latest power failure: Another storm, another self-serving response
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#80
UPDATE: (Hillary Supporter) Jon Bon Jovi Says He Gave (Hillary Opponent) Christie Permission
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#85
Christie Confirms Bruce Is Still His Fave NJ Musician, Gets Ovation From Bruce's Fans
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#98
He's Being Funded By A Tabloid? That Explains Why He's Started Talking Like One
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#99
Didn't Christie just fantasize about beating a woman and then serving her with a subpoena?
rocktivity
Feb 2016
#138