belmar. he is cited in in the report commissioned by governor chris christie s administration as a key witness to the conversation between dawn zimmer and christie cabinet official richard constable. this morning we received a statement just after that interview from hoboken mayor dawn zimmer responding to mayor doherty s remarks. thank you to mayor doherty for publicly acknowledging today that his account in the mastro report was mischaracterized. mr. mastro in his report claim mayor toert affirmatively testified the conversation i related it not occur. mayor doherty acknowledged that he did not hear the entirety of the conversation. contrary to mr. mastro s report. mr. mastro s deliberate attempt to distort the facts is not surprising given that governor christie spent well over $1 million to compensate himself for doing that. i call on mr. mastro to release the full transcripts of both the questions and answers contained in the interviews conducted so the public can determine just h
constable i know since working on sandy. again, it would have stood out. it would have been very memorable if someone was threatened over sandy. one more question because we initially were looking at this and we saw this and we thought to reach out to richard constable s office. he s in christie s cabinet. we got that statement which we aired and then we invited him, of course, to appear on the show. he declined and then his office told us that you were interested in appearing on the show and asked if we were interested in talking to you. we were and here you are. it does occur to me, is there a reason why richard constable s office would have referred us to you? they said you already expressed interest to them to appear on the show. i was in contact with commissioner constable. he called me and said he had been invited on the show. he didn t think he was going to make it but would issue a statement and said if i don t go, would you be interested in going on steve kornacki s show?
project in the city s north end planned by the rockefeller group, the firm represented at the time by port authority chairman david samson s law firm. and that only by doing this would she, dawn zimmer, sech the level of sandy aid she was requesting from the state. zimmer claims that encounter with guadagno took place may 13. then, three days later, she was seated next to constable at the televised town hall event. in a tiery entry she shared with us, zimmer said that she and constable then on that stage had an exchange with about the rockefeller project. quote, from her diary, we are mic d up with other panelists and probably the sound team is li listening. i hear you are against the rockefeller project. i am not against it. i want more commercial development in hoboken. oh, really? everyone in the state house believes you are against it. the buzz is that you are against it. if you move that forward, are the money would start flowing to you, he tells me. now the statement provided to
there are seeds of doubt. praurts have looked it at this report and says it reads like a defense brief. it s not that necessarily it would be factual or nonfactual but is selective in the information it presents to us. let s talk about where we are looking at the constable portion, richard constable, the commissioner speaking with dawn zimmerman. that s one of the allegations she s made. the other allegation is about kim guadagno in that parking lot encounter may 13, 2013, when guadagno pulled her aside, look, you have to aproven the rockefeller deal david samson represented development project or you re not getting your sandy money. the news we re breaking this morning, joe maraziti, a redevelopment attorney, has been subpoenaed by the u.s. attorney s office and there is now a resolution pending this was posted online. we saw it yesterday. it s pending for wednesday that
what you told investigators. they said, do you think she s lying? i said i don t believe she s lying. i think she felt threatened. absolutely. dawn zimmer is not a liar. dawn zimmer is an outstanding mayor you heard nothing about a quid pro quo, nothing was threatening, nothing in the exchange that seemed hostile or anything, but you believe she felt threatened? yeah. i take dawn zimmer for her word. when i was there but she s making up what constable said? i m just saying i never heard what she alleges richard constable said. you never heard it and you heard the entire conversation? and i heard their conversation. the entire conversation? their conversation about hazard mitigation. if somehow there was something else that they were whispering, but they weren t, maybe i didn t hear part of it. for what they were talking ab t about, no, there was no quid from quo, there were no threats and it would completely be out of carriharacter with the richa