Reports: Christie made loan to top aide, failed to report it

[sabra]

Source: Gannett New Jersey

As U.S. Attorney in 2007, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie did not report a $46,000 loan he gave to an aide, according to published reports and the Christie campaign.

Christie did not disclose the amount on his income tax return or elsewhere as required under federal and state ethics rules, said reports in The New York Times and the Star-Ledger. Both papers said the information was first broadcast on NJN Monday

Michele A. Brown, his executive assistant and counsel while he was U.S. Attorney, borrowed the money from Christie during his tenure as the state's top federal prosecutor, according to mortgage records in Morris County, the report said.

The failure to disclose the loan on ethics filings and in his tax returns was essentially an oversight, his aides, according to the report.


Read more: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090818/NEWS01/90818027/1006

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Political prosecutions, entrapment, now this.

This is just short of bribery. How are we losing to this prick?

[Downwinder]

2. Because 46 thousand is an inconsequential amount to him.

The thing to find out is how he can afford to consider 46 thousand as pocket change.

[karynnj]

5. Well, this is new and I think it will hurt

It is something that is easily understood on many levels. The easiest may be simple income tax evasion. I really don't see how he can claim he just "forgot" That. If we're lucky, he risked not reporting income - a pretty serious thing to do, because there were reasons that he wanted to hide the relationship.

This should hurt him because he is running as a "clean" reformer of corruption. On the issues, he loses and this makes it hard to see him as "cleaner" than the governor -- or even as clean. I had been dreading doing phone banking and canvasing because I know from the past that so many people would spontaneously bring up corruption - so, a real reformer, personally clean - no matter how out of step politically could have a real chance. (In fact, I loved doing some phone banking in MA last year. In about 50 calls, not one said all politicians were crooks or mentioned corruption. They were much nicer on average than the NJ phone banking I did. )

[CitizenPatriot]

3. another bribe for a mistress or what?

God these people are so predictable. We've been saying "you can't make this stuff up", but from now on, this book looks like it's rewriting itself over and over and over again.

Finally, Republicans, have you no decency? No shame? No values? What exactly is it that you would say you DO stand for, other than corruption, lies, philandering, and trying to overtake the government to create a theocracy based on your crazy Third Wave religious beliefs, which just by chance happen to have crowned you entitled kings and queens of the world?

[VWolf]

4. "essentially an oversight" ....... RIIIIIIIIGHT

Translation: "Non-essentially a bribe"