dawn zimmer what she wrote to herself in details with troubles new jersey governor chris christie. in a letter to the state legislature this week, zimmer explains the reason she did not come forward last year when she says the lieutenant governor threatened to withhold sandy aid because she did not support a project allegations the governor has denied. in an attachment to that letter zimmer included the undated journal entries which she says are notes from a conversation with hoboken s attorney. quote, yes, this is illegal. i debated with joe mar ziti whether or not to go to the u.s. attorney. we decided that christie has friends throughout the u.s. attorney s office. not much chance of getting help from them and it could create a nightmare for us. a little scary to realize there s no war to turn. my best defense is to stand up to the bully, my beloved gov who wants to run for president. her beloved gov of course ran the u.s. attorney s office in newark the one who is now i
directed benefits to from bristol-myers squib raised question. is seton hall the most ethical law school in history? because governor christie keeps going back to his alma mater when had comes to picking people out to run ethics investigations? i m an alum of seton hall. but i point is this, if the governor really wants to be transparent on ethics and an ombudsman, then have somebody else make the choice. that s not what happened here. so you have to really wonder about the transparency of the project when the governor himself is picking somebody whose job it is to oversee the governor. right, bad students don t get to pick the students. let me ask you about gibbs & dunn donated money days before the report was released.
gibbs & dunn can make contributions. but given the fact this was a christianity-sanctioned firm. and whether or not the taxpayer should have been on a vind indicating report. i put vindicating in air quotes what is your reaction to that? the indication is that we always do that. but this is a case where the bullet holes in their shoes are growing by leaps and bounds because if you want people to accept this as an objective report, at the same time you re release it, don t make a contribution to the rga. you don t have to do that so it sends entirely the wrong schedule. and it raises the skepticism that we all have that the report was done more as a rush to judgment to say that the governor had no involvement. look, he may not have any involvement. we don t know that. without all the legitimate questions being answered, we can t run that conclusion up front. and this is the same law firm that amid the speculation about why they d been chosen say, hey,
originallied with the company and not with him. ombudsman hobbs insists he ll have complete authority to address ethical issues. ethical issues that maybe the fact the law firm hired by christie donated $10,000 in the governor s association in the days right before the report clearing christie was released. $10,000 march 18th. that law firm gibbs and dunn said they regularly donate to the rga and have done so since 2009. christie is busy carrying out the recommendations to fix his troubled administration. also on thursday, christie eliminated the department that had, according to the review, doled out political rewards and punishments to mayors across the state. the office once held by campaign manager bill stepien and former deputy of staff bridget anne
so we now have a lot of material that we now have questions to ask people. and there seem to be quite a few questions out there. one in particular, the transcripts the lack of transcripts yeah, the sort of watercolor impressions of the interviews conducted. suggest david wildstein was telling christie s top people, this is according to mike duhain who was interviewed by gibbs & dunn. that bridget kelly and bill stepien knew about the bridge closures beforehand. that there were e-mails as proof. we aknow that chris christie said december 13th that nobody on his senior staff knew anything about what they were calling the traffic study. right. there would seem be a host of questions related to that issue, how skeptical are you of it? are so many inconsistencies. you correctly pointed out that mike duhain made it known to the governor that there were people in his administration who knew about the lane closures either contemporaneously or after the