Chris Christie's Piggy Bank: The real reason Christie killed the new NY-NJ commuter tunnel (Esquire)

[Laxman]

8. This Was A Conspiracy....

between Samson & Christie to siphon funds. How do you fix the Pulaski Skyway, a billion dollar project, without having money in the transportation trust fund? Tap the Port Authority. How do you fill in a multi-billion dollar budget gap? Take the tunnel money. If this weren't the case, the money would have been re-purposed to the Gateway Tunnel project in partnership with Amtrak. But he didn't. He spent it so he could say he balanced the budget without raising taxes in his campaign ads.

Samson, whose conflicts of interest are both flagrant and immensely profitable, still mans that post, and as a lawyer who does millions of dollars worth of deals with real-estate developers in the New York City area, not for nothing. He, too, has been subpoenaed by the New Jersey legislative committee investigating Ft. Lee -- the documents Wildstein turned over to the committee indicate Samson was in attack mode even as a traffic jam became Christigeddon -- and it's a safe bet that the Feds, too, have summoned him.

Give Christie credit for this much: He's hardly the first governor to use the PA as a piggy bank, a patronage pit, and a political weapon. But no other governor in history has been quite so greedy, so conniving, or so crude.

I'm stealing this form someone else: The Wolff & Samson motto- Quad Est In Loco (The Fix is In)