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High-ranking christie administration official zimmer says delivered that message to her. she told us back in january richard constable who serves as commissioner of the department of community affairs, that he also suggested to her at a public event several days after that encounter with guadagno there was a linkage between her citys sandy funds and approval of the development project to her. now those allegations caused quite a stir. zimmer met with and turned over documents to shortly after he...

Denied. city officials noted david s samsons interest in the project as his law firms representative pressed to arrange conversations between samson and city officials about the development project. s samson was personally copied on some e-mails. the allegations within the formal complaint that will be filed tomorrow shared with us exclusively this morning have to deal with other potential conflicts that have also come to light in the past few weeks. one was recently reported in "the bergen reco...

Public contracts for the state of new jersey each year. its a number that has exploded since christie game the governor. the firm also serves private clients who also do business in the state. wolff & samson has grown substantially since christie has taken office. it has come under greater scrutiny when e-mails came to light indicating bill baroni and david wildstein enlisted samson in the george washington bridge scandal to, quote, help us retaliate when the executive director pat foye reopened...

In that development project. quote, the word is you are against it, zimmer recalled, and you need to move it forward or we are not going to be able to help you. i know its not right. these things should not be connected but they are. if you tell anyone i said that, i will deny it. that is what dawn zimmer recorded in her diary. thats what she told us that kim guadagno told her. >> mayor zimmers version of our conversation in may of 2013 is not only false but is illogical and does not withstand s...

Information of those accused by mayor zimmer or implicated in the lane shutdowns in ft. lee? so we sent an e-mail to randy mastro and asked him have he and his team requested all relevant documents from zimmer and constable, the two that were linked to sandy money it to to the development project. has mastros team conducted intervaus with them, scheduled interviews with them? mastro wouldnt answer our questions directly and provided only this statement. quote, i will not comment on our interna...

Meeting. one person raised one question about a sandy contract. otherwise, it didnt come up. and i would say that within those parameters, the christie you saw at that town hall meeting was sort of classic chris christie, for lack of a better term. he does very well in those settings in general. but it doesnt change the fact youve got the -- you know, federal prosecutors looking into accusations by the hoboken mayor his administration tied sandy aid to the approval of a development project in th...

Of the lane closures to speak out against christie. also today the christie campaign won approval from the new jersey election law enforcement commission to spend campaign cash to fund its respond to the subpoenas over the bridge scandal. christie, himself, said during his public event in chicago that he still hasnt gotten to the bottom of what happened. >> were in the midst of an internal review now, and whatever that internal review discloses were going to release to the public and if theres m...

Out against christie. also today the christie campaign won approval from the new jersey election law enforcement commission to spend campaign cash to fund its respond to the subpoenas over the bridge scandal. christie, himself, said during his public event in chicago that he still hasnt gotten to the bottom of what happened. >> were in the midst of an internal review now, and whatever that internal review discloses were going to release to the public and if theres more action that needs to be ta...

Have been related to the storm. and so, you know, again, if funding was going, you know, to projects or development that was not related to the storm, you know, thats -- thats improper use of the money. now, i mean, i dont have the details on all of these, and the media keeps uncovering them day-to-day, but i mean, if you look at what dawn zimmer said, the mayor of hoboken, the idea of linking this to a development project is totally wrong. and, again, it goes back to this same thing. you know, ...

Hoboken, major dawn zimmer and this development project. you have mike duquesne working on behalf of this project and they wont answer the basic question, is this a project you guys want? >> thats kind of in the reporting on this. the advances that we have made have come when simple questions cant be answers. where did the money go? why do you sfoert this project? it should be obvious. you shouldnt have to have a panicky answer to this. it makes people like us more suspicious. here is the poll. ...