Interstate Capital Projects News Today

Mr. wildstein who was then a director of interstate capital projects admitted this morning that he and others orchestrated an illegal scheme to reduce the lanes from three to one in order to punish the mayor of ft. lee for not endorsing governor christies reelection. >> that was the united states attorney for new jersey in his remarks yesterday. breaking over a year of radio silence in his investigation of the bridgegate scandal. as we be been discussing fishman announced that david wildstein ha...

Is someone who was appointed to a very, very senior position in the christie administration in the port authority by the christie administration. he was the director of interstate capital projects. he was in charge of billions of dollars. so maybe they shouldnt have given him that job if he was unstable, which they went out of their way. i mean, i think one of the things interesting about the report is it found no problem with, for example, internal controls. maybe something went wrong in the go...

Is someone who was appointed to a very, very senior position in the christie administration in the port authority by the christie administration. he was the director of interstate capital projects. he was in charge of billions of dollars. so maybe they shouldnt have given him that job if he was unstable, which they went out of their way. i mean, i think one of the things interesting about the report is it found no problem with, for example, internal controls. maybe something went wrong in the go...

Is sitting around typing up these things? >> well, i think this is another question that we dont know the answer to. i mean, i think the key question here is all this stuff was known for decades about david wildstein and what he did in high school by no one better than chris christie himself. so knowing this information, why do you give him the job of director of interstate capital projects for the port authority of new york and new jersey. this wasnt a nothing job. this was a really important p...

It just doesnt strike me as something that came out of the professional communications office. especially -- and who would get to the point where you see, you know, make sure you use the part about his social study teacher, right? because thats going to blow the thing open. >> remember, this is the same professional communications office that in the article two years ago said we plead guilty. andrea bernstein, if not the professional communications office, who at team christie, including possibl...

Has been, was these were very important projects for the state of new jersey. how can you fault governor christies team for pushing for them? so its sort of a which is it? is he somebody who was unstable and manipulated a high school teacher? or is it somebody that was doing the work of the state of new jersey effectively in his position as director of interstate capital projects. now, as you mentioned, the top of the segment, i learned and some other reporters learned this week, that this posit...

There was no job called director of interstate capital projects, if that job had existed before he was there, where that red arrow is is where that job title would have been listed in the payroll records. if that job existed in 2009 it would be there, but it did not exist before him. and thats because in order to hire david wild teeth at the port authority, they had to invent that job for him. they created this job. they assigned the job a $150,000 salary, and they put david wildstein in it. thi...

2013. this is the same payroll document from the year before that, making the same, $150,000. the director of interstate capital projects, also in 2011, same deal. david wildstein, $150,000. same deal back in 2010, there he is. heres the thing, though. if you go back one year further than that, you go back to 2009, david wildstein is not there, hes not listed. thats because david wildstein couldnt get that job at the port authority until chris christie was sworn in as governor in 2010. david wil...

Deputy counsel once he didnt get the court job. and then theres david wildstein getting paid an annual salary of $150,000 plus change. thats him on the payroll in 20 2013. this is the same payroll document from the year before that, making the same, $150,000. the director of interstate capital projects, also in 2011, same deal. david wildstein, $150,000. same deal back in 2010, there he is. heres the thing, though. if you go back one year further than that, you go back to 2009, david wildstein i...

He resigned in december, and hes now pleading the fifth to avoid testifying about his role in shutting down access lanes to the busiest bridge in the world as part of some yet unexplained scheme to inflict punishment on the town of ft. lee new jersey. and now today, exactly 60 days after he became the first chris christie ally or staffer to resign in this bridge scandal, today we learn that the port authority is eliminating the job that they created for him. they are eliminating the job that he ...