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Because they have failed to do x, y, and z -- >> and were not going to pay them a settlement. >> okay. you fire them, you dont tell anyone for six weeks? i mean, you veto a bill for oversight? there is no way to get answers or data out of these people so then you start thinking, what exactly -- >> they didnt put the sbintegry monitors in they were required to approve. the governor signed it to ten months ago. they were supposed to be effective immediately. we have not seen anything until very, v...

You fire them, you dont tell anyone for six weeks? i mean, you veto a bill for oversight? there is no way to get answers or data out of these people so then you start thinking, what exactly -- >> they didnt put the integrity monitors in they were required to approve. the governor signed it to ten months ago. they were supposed to be effective immediately. we have not seen anything until very, very recently about integrity monitors put into place. the other thing strange about today, he said its ...

>> and that gets to the second order issue which relates both to the folks we talked to, the person featured in our story, and also reporters which is if they were being more open about whats going on, it wouldnt seem so weird or it wouldnt seem like theyre trying to hide something. if they say, we are parting ways with our biggest contractor because they have failed to do "x," "y," and "z" -- >> and were not going to pay them a settlement. >> okay. you fire them, you dont tell anyone for six we...

Transparency and people get letters from the state that say were not giving you money and they dont know why. the letter doesnt tell them why. >> the new brunswick story, does that surprise you? >> it doesnt surprise me. the state has had little given the reporting by steve kornacki of the lack of integrity monitors, given the fact we dont have real independent transparent oversight, are you at all confident that money is going to go to the right people and not be used as slush fund? >> theyve g...

Be assigned to every recovery project granted $5 million or more in sandy money in order to protect against waste fraud or abuse. that law went into effect march of last year. and guess when the new jersey treasury department says it began putting a law signed more than ten months ago into practice? not until january of this year, 2014. thats right. the sandy money has been going out the door, but it appears integrity monitors were not put in place until last month in the wake of the scandal tha...

In order to protect against waste, fraud and abuse. that law went into effect march of last year. and guess when new jersey treasury department says it began putting a law, a law signed more than ten months ago into practice? not until january of this year. 2014. thats right. the sandy money has been going out the door but it appears integrity monitors were not put in place until last month in the wake of the scandal that is now engulfing the christie administration. joining me now, kevin walsh,...

Announce theres another $1.2 billion about to come in to the feds and tgo out the door. given the reporting by steve kornacki of the lack of integrity monitors, given the fact we dont have real independent transparent oversight, are you at all confident that money is going to go to the right people and not be used as slush fund? >> theyve given no indication -- theyve given no indication that theyre going to correct the mistakes of the past. the worst thing we can do is allow the money to come i...

That law went into effect march of last year. and guess when new jersey treasury department says it began putting a law, a law signed more than ten months ago into practice? not until january of this year. 2014. thats right. the sandy money has been going out the door but it appears integrity monitors were not put in place until last month in the wake of the scandal that is now engulfing the christie administration. joining me now, kevin walsh, associate director of fair share housing center. yo...

Affected by the storm. that was the justification for this being a sandy project. thats whatnot having the kind of website christie vetoed means when it comes to tracking sandy money. moving back to the law. the law that did pass, the integrity monitoring law that went into effect nearly a year ago at the end of last march. integrity monitors were selected and many have been in place and seemingly ready to go since last summer. the law requires on the first business day of each quarter, every ...

Has been given a monitor. we asked the same about an hgi contract, was it given a monitor. we asked how many contracts are out there worth more than $5 million, how many of them currently have monitors, how many have waivers? the statement we received back did not answer these specific questions. we contacted them again with a follow-up question asking whether we were interpreting their statement correctly that prior to january, 2014, there had been no integrity monitors in place. we did not hea...