middlesex county, they re still finding people who paid to get their jobs from their county sheriff who is still in jail. i think that the bigger picture there is that all of these things are coming back in and i think the sandy thing is what will kill them. that s the federal money, using federal money for local political purposes will be the problem. there s a really big picture here that a prominent lower, jay haddon, told me about. let s go back to his history as u.s. attorney. you re right. big crime buster. public corruption. but there were the cases that shouldn t have been brought. joe doria, the former assembly speaker, a democrat, had his reputation and his career just thrown through the mud. he was never indicted but he had his house searched. you had the mayor of ridgefield, and th anthony suarez, caught up with some other mayors who were convicted but he was not convicted. he got off in a trial.
question since january 23 when the u.s. attorney, paul fischman, issued subpoenas of his own in connection with the bridge scandal. many wondered if he would lean on the committee to essentially stand down and to get out of his way. late yesterday afternoon schar issued a statement he met fray daye with frischman s office and based on the meeting i am comfortable the investigation may continue as we proceed schar s statement, continues, we will be mindful of the need to avoid taking steps that could inappropriately impede any investigation the u.s. attorney s office may be conducting. left unclear is exactly what steps could impede an investigation by the u.s. attorney. will the committee be able to release all of the documents it receives from this latest round of subpoenas just like it did when record submitted by david wildstein and baroni came in last night? will there be a negotiated release of doupts or all withheld from the public? and will the committee be issuing any
a small fraction of that has been entered into evidence. we have sources who are allowed us access to unsealed material at their own professional power. in terms of your point that the feds let us see it, i would love to be able to respond to that directly but i can t limit the universe of potential sources out there for fear that i might outsource accidentally. let s just say that fishman was insistent that nobody under his authority would cooperate with us. fair enough. after maybe a dozen money laundering rabbi types, the case shifts into the political realm, starting with low-level operators and working upwards. how high does it get? it got all the way up to governor corzine s cabinet. but you re right, it started very low and that was because it basically was a chain. he had to go from person who knew the next person who knew the next person. he worked at this pretty feverishly? absolutely. everyday? not only everyday but what we
continues to make his name as a star ledger and most recently did this series on the steward commission which may not mean a lot to people down here but sure mental lot to chris christie because he went after it and sort of turned it upside down and 100 people foul out and haven t gotten back up yet which is what this book is somewhat about. it is about the downfall of a number of people who were not expecting to be taken down and many have gone to prison as a result of whose lives have been ruined. you all remember i am sure what triggered this book or the incident that this book is all about. the mass bust in july of 2009 of political figures mainly in northern new jersey and rabbis from portland, from the orthodox community. these two guys decided to write a book about that and i want to ask them why. why write a book about this case? because nobody understood what happened or why it happened and when it first happened in july of 2009. we were as close as anybody who was
and he was very forthcoming after a while because he trusted me and he hadn t been talked about it before. in the short term interview, if you know what you re looking for from the subject and you want them in essence to put a piece of cement then you re satisfied when you said. c-span: to you have a favorite saying in this book? i actually do. the opening paragraph of chapter 2, which we did first, which is the beginning of world war i of hong. i could find it but whether or not i could do it in a minute is another matter. christmas eve 19144 months and 22 days into the conflict the world had known him a handful of german infantrymen of the 101st regiment began correct shaking your hand as though you are trying to smash their fingers and then a few days later. c-span: thank you very much. the redesigned website features over 800 notable nonfiction authors, interviewed about their books. there you can view the programs, transcripts and use the searchable database and