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pnwmom

(108,973 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2014, 05:45 PM Jan 2014

Call for a Federal Grand Jury for "the biggest scandal to hit NJ since Abscam"

It's nice to have some fun with politics for a change.



http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/194754-emails-link-christie-administration-to-bridge-scandal

State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D), a frequent Christie antagonist, suggested a federal grand jury should investigate what he called “the biggest scandal to hit New Jersey since Abscam,” the FBI sting that implicated a number of New Jersey officials, including a senator, in a bribery scandal.

“It’s not a surprise that tactics like this would be used by Gov. Christie. It is a surprise that they were able to get this far, to create what, in my opinion, is reasonable suspicion to convene a grand jury to investigate criminal violations of the law,” he told The Hill.

He said that the closures clearly put lives in danger, because the traffic would have delayed emergency vehicles, something he called “irresponsible and reckless and to do that for political retribution is criminal.”

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