Mayor Zimmer meets with US Atty

[deminks]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/us-attorney-inquiry-christie-widens

The New Jersey mayor who publicly claimed this weekend that Gov. Chris Christie’s administration tried to withhold hurricane relief funds met Sunday in private with the U.S. attorney for the state of New Jersey.

“This afternoon I met with the U.S. Attorney’s office for several hours at their request and provided them with my journal and other documents,” Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer said in a statement Sunday. “As they pursue this investigation, I will provide any requested information and testify under oath about the facts of what happened when the Lieutenant Governor came to Hoboken and told me that Sandy aid would be contingent on moving forward with a private development project.”

Zimmer said Saturday in an interview with MSNBC that she would be willing to sign a sworn statement and testify under oath that she had been threatened by the governor’s staff to approve a development project or risk hurricane relief funding for her town of Hoboken, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.

The mayor’s claims, repeated again in a second interview Sunday with CNN, have fueled public impressions of Christie’s administration, which is already enveloped in a separate scandal of apparent political retribution aimed at another New Jersey town.

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[chieftain]

1. K&R

[Submariner]

2. With this Hoboken story, I think Christie can take off that stomach band now

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and eat to his hearts content, because he probably realizes there is no need to trim down to impress the voters he will never face anymore.

[identify]

16. was thinking the same thing

This is a LOT of stress for one person to handle. Either he loses his desire to eat from the worry, or he will stress-eat like a mofo. I know I would. #shipsinkingfast

[riverwalker]

3. "at their request"

"for several hours"

To be called to the US Attorney's office, on a Sunday afternoon, implies (to me) that they are going to be aggressive in this.

Paul J. Fishman, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey, is an Obama appointee and a Democrat? Oh lawdy

[diabeticman]

12. Let's see you have people come in on a Sunday...Martin Luther King Day on Monday...Grand jury

meeting on a Tuesday? Possible indictment on Tuesday?

[malaise]

14. They are scaring Christie before the inauguration

Do the right thing CC - have the stomach band removed and eat away.
It's over.

[DirkGently]

4. Pay for play. I think exactly no one is surprised.

Despite all the sputtering and contorted logic to discredit Zimmer, this story rings true.

Probably just the tip of the Sandy funds corruption iceberg as well.

[Gothmog]

5. The testimony given to US attorney is in effect under oath

It is a crime to make false statement to a US attorney

[CTyankee]

7. Yep. And it is a crime to perjuire yourself in a court of law.

She has been pretty forthcoming about her willingness to tell her story under all these circumstances. If she is lying, then she has a mental problem and I don't think that is the case.

[Laxman]

10. Its A Crime To Lie To A Federal Investigator....

ask Scooter Libby. They will find that she is extremely credible. There is not doubt in my mind that this took place.

[CTyankee]

11. You are right. She's not a fool. At this point, she has nothing to lose and lots to gain...IMO

I hope and pray that I am right...

[Politicalboi]

6. I am hoping Crisco's inauguration will be canceled

Why swear him in with all this shit in the air.

[CTyankee]

8. well, the Occupy folks will have a good shot at him!

[MoonRiver]

9. Crispy Toast

[malaise]

13. K & R

Delish!

[libdem4life]

15. Is it OK that I'm gloating?