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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest-Vol. I [View all]Laxman
(2,419 posts)there was a little dust up about a gas pipeline being proposed for the Pinelands of south Jersey. I posted this http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024332748 about the issue (the lightning picture is still cool!). A little more digging revealed that a top Christie Staffer-Christine Renna-was married to the president of South Jersey Gas, the company that was trying to get the pipeline project approved. Nothing to see here, right? Well it all smells very bad, like everything else this administration touches. There was an article about the relationship (see Digest item #24) and Christie's mouthpiece shrugged it off as much ado about nothing. Well, when the Star-Ledger tried to do a little more digging, Christie stonewalled their efforts to get any more information. Last week the court said they had to turn over e-mails to the newspaper and guess what-Renna and her husband did in fact discuss the pipeline project via her state e-mail account. All in a day's work, right?
An aide to Gov. Chris Christie traded emails last year about a controversial gas pipeline through the Pinelands region with her husband, who is a top executive at the company behind the project, records obtained by NJ Advance Media show.
The messages, including one about how the Pinelands Commission members may vote on the project, were sent the same day a member who opposed the pipeline said he was told the State Ethics Commission had ordered him to recuse himself.
The governors office released the records Oct. 2 in response to an order by state Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson, who ruled they were wrongly denied under an Open Public Records Act request filed in February. The request was made by The Star-Ledger.
In its response, the governors office said the records were related to an ongoing investigation pertaining, at least in some way, to the pipeline. But it declined to identify the nature or target of the investigation, or the agency conducting it.
The emails were exchanged Dec. 12, 2013, between the aide, Christina Genovese Renna, on her governors office account, and Michael Renna, who is president and chief operating officer of South Jersey Industries, the parent company of South Jersey Gas, which wanted to build the pipeline in the environmentally sensitive area.
read it here: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/christie_aide_discussed_pipeline_with_husband_a_top_exec_at_firm_behind_project_emails_show.html#incart_story_package