focused on the george washington bridge lane closures. but doherty s a key figure in the other christie administration scandal. it s the one involving allegations by the mayor of hoboken, dawn zimmer. allegations that two top officials from the administration suggested to her that her city s level of sandy recovery funding was contingent on her approval of a large development project in her city, a development project represented by the law firm of one of christie s closest confidants, samson. there s an active federal investigation into zimmer s allegations that s under way and much of the mastro report, a report issued by the law firm that conducted the internal investigation for christie, much of that report is devoted to bluntly challenging dawn zimmer s story. here s how mastro, himself, characterized zimmer last week. we find that mayor zimmer s allegations that members of the christie administration delivered a message from the governor to her threatening
and richard constable and he s sitting on your show. thank god he wasn t on for the full hour because if that had just gone on forever and ever, who knows what and the e-mail he sent to you reiterates the same confusion he showed on air. broaden this out. this is, you know, one allegation from dawn zimmer against one of these people. but this is the way that this was presented in the report versus the way that he appeared on our show yesterday. what does that say about the report more generally speaking? i think the suggestion in the report, what we ve been finding as we go through it in general is that they ve picked and chosen what facts they want to have bubble up in the narrative, and even in some of the exhibit documents they ve included in there, there are things that contradict what s in the actual narrative of the report. so, you know, if it s a public document, if, you know, i think the million-dollar figure is probably a lowball. no matter how much it costs at the end of
so here s what i heard from matt doherty yesterday. he said he never heard anything like what zimmer is alleging but also said it s possible he didn t hear the whole conversation. then he said he thinks he does hear it all but also dawn zimmer isn t fabricating anything, even though he didn t hear constable say anything she alleges he said. he guesses it s possible he missed part of the conversation if they were whispering, then he quickly adds they weren t whispering. this is the man the mastro report is relying on. to discredit a major part of dawn zimmer s allegation against the christie administration. a man who back in january said he hadn t heard zimmer s conversation with constable, who didn t accurately remember where he was sitting on stage, who the mastro report now touts as a key eyewitness, as the key eyewitness who discredits what dawn zimmer is saying about richard constable. if you re not confused enough, we got this e-mail this morning from doherty saying he wanted to
probably the sound team is listening and he says, i hear you against the rockefeller project. i reply, i am not against the rockefeller project. in fact, i want more commercial development in hoboken. oh, really? everyone in the statehouse believes you are against it. the buzz is that you are against it. if you move that forward, money would start flowing to you, he tells me. that s from her diary. constable has vehemently denied her charges. the mastro report sides with him and sides against dawn zimmer. sitting on that same stage with zimmer an constable on that night was matt doherty. he is the independent eyewitness the mastro report relies on, one who supposedly undermines zimmer. mayor doherty heard the conversation between mayor zimmer and commissioner constable and was with them on stage before the start of the show and throughout the broadcast and doherty was well positioned to hear the conversation. he was at the end of the first row and therefore not speaking with anyone e
like what zimmer is alleging but also said it s possible he didn t hear the whole conversation. then he said he thinks he does hear it all but also dawn zimmer isn t fabricating anything, even though he didn t hear constable say anything she alleges he said. he guesses it s possible he missed part of the conversation if they were whispering, then he quickly adds they weren t whispering. this is the man the mastro report is relying on. a man who back in january said he hadn t heard zimmer s conversation with constable, who didn t accurately remember where he was sitting on stage, who the mastro report now touts as a key eyewitness, as the key eyewitness who discredits what dawn zimmer is saying about richard constable. if you re not confused enough, we got this e-mail this morning from doherty saying he wanted to clear up things, if there was any confusion. he says regarding the conversation i heard between mayor zimmer and commissioner constable on the stage at monmouth university,