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[Laxman]

followed through on their promise to file an ethics complaint against David Samson today. This is good news. However, I'm waiting for the NJ Attorney Ethics complaint against Samson. His conflicts of interest are clear violations of the Attorney Cannon of Ethics. Any other attorney doing what he has done would face disbarment. In the meantime, the wheels of justice continue to turn.....

Port Authority chairman hit with ethics complaint by NJ Working Families Alliance

A New Jersey watchdog group filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission today charging Port Authority Chairman David Samson with using his position at the bi-state agency to benefit developers and other clients of his law firm.

"This complaint alleges that Samson violated the CIL by using his position as Chairman of the Port Authority to influence decisions of the Port Authority Board of Commissioners that would benefit clients of his law firm, Wolff & Samson PC," states the complaint, filed by the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, a Democratic-leaning coalition of consumer, environmental and labor groups including the Sierra Club and Laborers Union Local 32BJ.

read the rest of the article here: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/port_authority_samson_ethics_complaint.html#incart_m-rpt-1

and here is a link to the actual complaint for those afflicted with policy wonk disease: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1033946-3-2-14-final-complaint.html