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To get inside u.s. attorney s office to figure out what s going on with the bridge-gate thing and now we have what seems like really credible reporting from brian thompson. what s the decision usually behind that? what is happening inside for something like that to get out? well, it s unusual. federal prosecutors are usually a lot more discreet than state prosecutors because they are not elected officials. they are appointed by the president. this report is incredible though because we ve always thought that bridge-gate has never been clear exactly what the crime is. sandy-gate, how the sandy funds were allocated that seems a more traditional public corruption prosecution but these indictments are most unwelcome development for governor christie. what s going on is pyramid prosecution, working your way up to the top. it sounds like these indictments will be little fish and bigger fish but not the big fish. the big fish is christie. i think he s kind of again, this ....
Which is not going to generate money from the state. it s taking capital costs and putting them in an operating budget. don t have to raise the gas tax. that s the problem politically. at the heart of this particular issue, there s something called the martin act. yes. new york state statute. can you explain in terms this is my understanding of this is that people on wall street, new york side here fear this thing, it s a new york state law and because this is the manhattan district attorney looking into it, this is a law with real teeth in it. important point. you remember paul fishman is investigating sandy-gate. this is a whole different prosecutor with a whole different team of agents and investigators looking into this pulaski bridge scandal, they have the martin act, class e felony and says if you misrepresent any material fact ....
He could have known what they would be, and he directed us on the day we were retained, which was the first time i ever met governor christie to find out the facts, whatever they may be, to report them back to the governor s office and to make recommendations, as we saw fit, to address the problem so something like this never happens again. that is what we have down in our 345-page report. now to the second issue that we were asked to investigate involving hoboken s sandy-gate, we find that mayor zimmer s allegations that members of the christie administration ....