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look at the Samson Ethics Complaint from today's NJ Spotlight.

Samson Complaint Tests Independence Of Embattled Ethics Commission

Samson’s law firm was also in the middle of a controversy involving the Ethics Commission itself two month ago, when the governor’s office asked the commission to issue a ruling barring Ed Lloyd, a respected environmental lawyer serving on the Pinelands Commission, from voting on an application by South Jersey Gas to build a pipeline across a protected Pinelands preserve. Even with Lloyd not voting, the pipeline plan failed to win approval due to a 7-7 tie vote in a rare defeat for both the Christie administration and the Wolff and Samson law firm, which represented South Jersey Gas.

Samson, whose law firm’s lobbying and bonding business has skyrocketed since Christie’s election, is in the middle of the two most serious scandals that have rocked the Christie administration in the eight weeks since the governor acknowledged that his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, ordered the controversial George Washington Bridge lane closures in apparent retaliation against Fort Lee’s mayor for refusing to endorse Christie for reelection.

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/03/04/samson-complaint-tests-independence-of-embattled-ethics-commission/