ft. lee into giving them what they wanted. with that parcel of land. the mayor in turn wore a wire for the fbi and the investors funding corp guys went to prison and never developed the land. so that it was still undeveloped when leona helmsley bought it in the 1980s. she planned to put up four big high-rises on that land. those plans got scrapped when she, too, had to go to prison. well now that same parcel of land really is being developed. this time with no mention of prison at all but the leona helmsley years of owning that property next to the george washington bridge, leona helmsley years came up in a weird time in the investigation of the current bridge-related scandal in chris christie's new jersey. the bridge lanes were shut down in the george washington bridge in september. it was back in november of last year which was the time when really only the new jersey press was covering the story. this was before david wildstein had resigned, before bill baroni