Christie Hires Giuliani Associate for Bridge Inquiries
Source: NY Times
Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday that he has hired a lawyer who is a longtime associate of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to conduct an internal investigation of his office following revelations that top aides orchestrated lane closings on the George Washington Bridge in an act of political retribution.
Mr. Christie’s announcement said that the lawyer, Randy Mastro, would work with the inquiry by the United States attorney’s office into the lane closings, which gridlocked emergency vehicles, commuters and school buses in Fort Lee, N.J., for four days in September.
But while the memo said that Mr. Mastro would also assist with “other appropriate inquiries,” it left unsaid whether Mr. Christie intended to cooperate with bipartisan investigations that are to be authorized Thursday by the New Jersey Legislature.
When asked directly whether the governor considered the legislative inquiries “appropriate,” a spokesman for the governor, Colin Reed, declined to answer. “I have nothing to add beyond the statement,” he said.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/christie-bridge-inquiry.html
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Gov. Christie is a lawyer, a former US attorney, and already has legal counsel on his
staff this is damage control nothing more and nothing less.
that if he stalls long enough with bs appointments like this, throws enough of his staff under 'the bus', distracts and obfuscates enough from his direct role in this and bullshits plenty, people in the MSM will move on to other things. Thing is, this will probably be what happens.
here's hoping.
