and started a talk show. but it was out of the pokey and now back into the stew. the hartford courant reports he s hired a defense lawyer to help him with a new grand jury investigation into his political goings on. the new investigation has to do with whether or not he was involved with unreported campaign spending from a fellow republican running for congress in 2012. the courat notes that while mr. roland was quietly on the payroll of that candidate s husband, mr. roland had been critical of that candidate s opponent was it in effect, a secret political consulting gig that they tried to disguise as something else? it should also be noted that john roland is still getting his yearly pension from the state of connecticut with annual cost of living adjustments. even after prison. maybe that state pension that he s still getting from his time
0 mid-atlantic are hunkering down for another winter pummeling, it s been a heavy winter already, but snow, rain and freezing rain are expected to move up the i-95 corridor. the national weather service used the adjective catastrophic to describe the impact of this storm in the southeast and east coast. if you are in the path of this giant storm complex, take it from me, my layman s understanding of this, stay home. this is a big one. we re going to keep an eye on this storm over the course of this hour, and the course of the night here on msnbc. we hope you will stay with us for that. as we keep an eye on this big storm system tonight. we are keeping an eye on the big politics story today. in that story today, big news. be hold the new subpoena to the office of new jersey governor chris christie. 18 new subpoenas were released tonight in new jersey including the new one to governor christie s own office. we knew these 18 subpoenas had been issued at the beginning of the week, we had s
0 mayor of fort lee. also this, anything related to the preparation of bill baroni s testimony to the state legislature last november. that was the testimony of bill baroni, he tried to sell the legislature this false cover story of what really happened on that bridge. that was his two hour performance, where he tried to tell them it was a traffic study, even though it wasn t. the new subpoena to governor chris christie s office tonight orders the office to turn over all documents and correspondents of any kind which reflect or contain any drafts or earlier versions of, comments on or chains or edits to the statement read by bill baroni before the legislature on november 25th. weather handwritten, electronic or in any other form. this is as we reported last night, as we were first reporting last night. the focus is on the cover-up, on the effort to concoct and sell a cover story that was designed to disguise the real reason those bridge lanes were shut down. who was in on that cover-up
as we keep an eye on this big storm system tonight. we are keeping an eye on the big politics story today. in that story today, big news. be hold the new subpoena to the office of new jersey governor chris christie. the week, we had some exclusive reporting here on this show about what was expected to be in these subpoenas, now as of tonight we have the documents. the office of new jersey governor chris christie has been subpoenaed in this matter twice before, once by federal authorities and once by the legislator, we can report governor christie s office is being ordered to hand over documents and records of any kind. all dossiers, correspondents, notes, details, messages, texts. about two things, two very specific things. contact between the governor s office and mark sockeledge, the mayor of fort lee. also this, anything related to the preparation of bill baroni s testimony to the state legislature last november. that was the testimony of bill baroni, he tried to sell the
governor of connecticut, semi-similar situation, he ended up, greenwich had tough ethics laws, but virginia, no state laws that he violated, correct? well, that s right. these are all federal charges. all federal charges. johnny williams, why hasn t he indi indicted? he has immunity. he s giving them the paper trail. he s clearly important, not the only one, but clearly an important witness for the prosecution. so he s not been indicted and he has immunity from prosecution. but what the mcdonnells lawyer say is, if you take the government s theory in this case to its extreme, then when president obama went to dreamworks and said, nice things about dreamworks and jeffrey katzenberg and the other people, he was lending the prestige of the presidency to a big campaign donor. they say, look at people who get ambassadorships after giving lots of campaign contributions. what is worse, though,