Christie Crime Digest-Volume IV

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75. You Get To The Point....

where nothing is shocking anymore. Witness Chris Stark described an incident where Monmouth County Freeholder John Curley got into it with Christie. Christie called him a F***ing Idiot. Reports were that Curley call Christie a Fat F**k. Contacted to confirm the story Curley said it wasn't true. Curley said the true story was that he called Christie a Fat MotherF***er. Now that's something you don't see in the paper every day.

There was more to his testimony:

Bridgegate witness describes how Christie's office did favors for Democrats to gain support

The governor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs was supposed to be an outreach office—a one-stop shop for mayors, local officials and civic leaders seeking assistance from the state.

But as Gov. Chris Christie's 2013 re-election campaign ramped up, the agency took on another role. It became a virtual arm of the campaign, using public resources to help convince Democratic officials to endorse the governor.

"It lasted until the end of the campaign," testified Christopher Stark, a former regional director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, or IGA.

Stark, called as a witness by federal prosecutors Wednesday in the Bridgegate corruption scandal, worked for Bridget Anne Kelly, the one-time aide to Christie. She is currently on trial with former Port Authority deputy executive director Bill Baroni, charged with conspiring to shut down toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge in September 2013 in a scheme to flood Fort Lee with traffic after the borough's mayor declined to endorse the governor.
In his testimony, Stark talked about an operation within the governor's office that sought to build relationships with agreeable Democrats with free passes to the governor's box at MetLife Stadium for Giants and Jets games; tickets to the Prudential Center for Devils NHL games and Seton Hall basketball; breakfasts and dinners with the governor at Drumthwacket, and exclusive access to Ground Zero.

Friends of the governor got their calls returned, grants for their communities, and invitations to special events. Officials that did not appear likely to endorse, or who otherwise found themselves incurring the ire of the governor himself, would ultimately be put in what Stark called a "time out" of sorts. They were put on a list of individuals who were to be "hands off." Their calls were not to be returned.

"We were to have no communication with them. We were not supposed to call them back," he said.

Read the rest here: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/10/bridgegate_focuses_on_favors_to_democrats_and_expl.html#incart_river_home