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This was not what those who had been covering christie in new jersey politics were used to. the rule with christie, it seemed, a leak like that would be quickly followed by more revelations, more damning details and soon some kind of action, subpoenas, arrests, indictments. menendez loudly and repeatedly denied he had done anything wrong. no further details came out for the rest of the campaign. that lack of any public follow-up combined with the strongly anti-republican tide of 2006 in new jersey s generally blue tint were more than enough to save menendez. the investigation hung over his head until it officially ended in 2011, menendez never had to gr grapple with questions about it after that brief eruption in the 2006 campaign. new jersey political circles, some quietly asked what had previously been an unthinkable question. had christie been trying to give a hand to the republican candidate? the son of tom cain senir., ....
Christie s own political mentor. certainly there was no proof of it and there still isn t any. it was the first time that an investigation by christie produce this had kind of question. the suspicions were further raised in the months after the 2006 election. president george w. bush s justice department came under scrutiny for playing politics with its u.s. attorneys. the attorney general and the firestorm tonight over the controversial dismissal of several federal prosecutors. was it political punishment? revelations emerged that u.s. attorneys around the country had been ranked according to their loyalty to the white house and its goals and in a surprisingly high number had been fired or at least placed on to be fired lists. and it turned out that twice in 2006 christie had appeared on informal lists of targeted u.s. attorneys. but that by the end of 2006, after the race, after it had been made mr. public at the height of the campaign, ....