WNYC Roasts Christie & Samson

[Laxman]

4. Hopefully, This Level....

of scrutiny will be the undoing of Christie and Samson. One more matter that we haven't really touched on here is the American Dream Mall in Bergen County-that's the multi-colored monstrosity across from Met-Life Stadium. Samson represented the financier for the project-the Bergen County Improvement Authority, the developer-Triple Five, and his partner Lori Griffa had just re-joined the firm after her stint as DCA Commissioner, a job that includes being chairperson of the Meadowllands Commission, a regional planning agency with authority over the American Dream mall site. Wow- its one thing to cover both sides of a transaction- he had three sides covered!

Remember the Wolff & Samson Firm Motto: Quad Est In Loco (The Fix is In)

...emails suggest that Mr. Samson, even though his vast agency is in charge of the region’s ports, airports, bridges and tunnels, was unconcerned that thousands of people might have been trapped in a colossal traffic jam that was created to punish a Democratic mayor who would not endorse Mr. Christie, a Republican, for re-election. But the emails show Mr. Samson as very concerned about politics, specifically that Patrick J. Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority, was trying to get to the bottom of the jam.

“In this case, he’s playing in traffic, made a big mistake,” Mr. Samson wrote about Mr. Foye, who was appointed by the New York side of the bistate agency.

read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/nyregion/post-scandal-future-unclear-for-port-authoritys-low-profile-leader.html?_r=0