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tracks29

(98 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:19 PM Mar 2015

Report: Christie Administration Interfered With Exxon Settlement

Enough of this guy already


But when the news came that the state had reached a deal to settle its $8.9 billion claim for about $250 million, the driving force behind the settlement was not the attorney general’s office — it was Gov. Chris Christie’s chief counsel, Christopher S. Porrino, two people familiar with the negotiations said.

One of those people, Bradley M. Campbell, was the commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection in 2004 when the lawsuits against Exxon were filed. Mr. Campbell, in an op-ed article appearing in The New York Times on Thursday, wrote that “even more troubling” than the decision to settle the lawsuit were “the circumstances surrounding the decision.”
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He goes on to say that former colleagues of his in the state government told him that Mr. Porrino “inserted himself into the case, elbowed aside the attorney general and career employees who had developed and prosecuted the litigation, and cut the deal favorable to Exxon.”


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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/nyregion/christies-office-took-over-exxon-settlement-ex-official-says.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytmetro
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And yet edhopper Mar 2015 #1
Your point hits the mark. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2015 #2

SleeplessinSoCal

(8,992 posts)
2. Your point hits the mark.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 02:16 AM
Mar 2015

Why is it democrats must die on their sword while republicans gouge us with theirs?

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