Long before she ever contemplated the prospect of investigating the governor of New Jersey for corruption, Loretta Weinberg had to face down corruption accusations made against her. The boodle in question was 8 tons of tuna. It was during the mid-1980s, years prior to her running for office, that the tuna disappeared, under fishy circumstances,…
The man at the center of the scandal that threatens to destroy Chris Christie’s White House ambitions is a hardnosed Jewish ex-blogger who drank the Republican Kool-Aid as a teenager and broke into New Jersey journalism writing under the pseudonym “Wally Edge.” Most of all, David Wildstein, who grew up in the same central Jersey…
A Jewish official who is a close political associate of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions at a state legislative hearing into a decision to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge as a political attack on a Democratic mayor. David Wildstein, a longtime Republican operative…
Scene from Gov. Christie’s morning staff meeting? The pivotal moment from the classic 1957 film “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” in which British prisoner-of-war officer Alec Guinness comes face to face with his obsessive and misguided attempt to build his legacy on a bridge. The parallel to the current moment isn’t entirely perfect, other…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Thursday fired a top aide at the center of a brewing scandal that public officials orchestrated a massive traffic snarl on the busy George Washington Bridge to settle a political score. Christie told a news conference he was stunned and heartbroken by revelations that his staff was behind the…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie strongly advocated for charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice during an Orthodox Union-sponsored Legislative Breakfast. Education was the primary focus of Sunday morning’s event, which drew a crowd of 600 people and lasted for two hours at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck, N.J. Orthodox Union representatives emphasized…
An elderly New Jersey couple has accepted $1 to settle litigation over the building of sand dunes that blocked the panoramic beachfront and ocean view from their home, the state said on Wednesday. Governor Chris Christie separately issued an executive order directing Acting Attorney General John Hoffman to begin legal action to acquire roughly 1,000…
New Jersey’s special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg will go ahead this year as scheduled, after the state Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a legal challenge. Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, ordered a special primary election on Aug. 13 and a special general…
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