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Michaels or his brother, jeff michaels who is a powerful lobbyist in new jersey who was also mentioned in steves report. the executive director of the port authority has now asked the port authority inspector general and the port authority police chief to investigate the role of at least that one port authority police officer who apparently drove around david wildstein on the first morning of the closures. other reporting tonight suggests that the new internal port authority investigation may be...

Washington bridge. traffic study which was used as a cover story to obscure the real reasons the lanes on that bridge were shut down. joining us now, sean of the "bergen record." prestigious george polk journalism award for his excellent and groundbreaking coverage of the bridge lane closings. congratulations on that polk . t >> i appreciate it. >> couple things that have broken. one is the news substantiating the early claims from the ft. lee mayor that port authority police told people who wer...

Real reasons the lanes on that bridge were shut down. joining us now, sean of the "bergen record." prestigious george polk journalism award for his excellent and groundbreaking coverage of the bridge lane closings. congratulations on that polk. >> i appreciate it. >> couple things that have broken. one is the news substantiating the early claims from the ft. lee mayor that port authority police told people who were stuck in the traffic jam they ought to blame the mayor. why is that an important ...

Reporting, thats a text message from chip michaels. in the context of other comments that seem to relish the traffic problems occurring in ft. lee, that looks similar in content. >> its at least -- it is at least a statement of fact. we know it was a ft. lee traffic disast disaster. in context, was that expressing relish over that or if that was the goal? we still dont know. >> right. >> what about the fact that among the ways that chip michaels turns up in the documents weve seen thus far, it s...

People are missing work. its been four days now. you have to stop this. and he said this, specifically, as to why it might be happening. the mayor wrote this, quote, many members of the public indicated to me the port authority police officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision that i as mayor recently made. according to the mayor, he says he found out even as the bridge lane shutdown was still in effect, he says th...

She was known as the queen of mean, and leona helmsley did not mind being thought of that way. she went to prison on federal tax evasion charges. if you remember her for nothing else, remember her famous quote attributed to her from her former housekeeper during the trial. leona helmsley reportedly said, we dont pay taxes, only little people pay taxes. she didnt pay taxes until she got caught and had to go to the crowbar hotel. leona helmsley has passed on now, as has her very rich dog. part of ...

Ft. lee into giving them what they wanted. with that parcel of land. the mayor in turn wore a wire for the fbi and the investors funding corp guys went to prison and never developed the land. so that it was still undeveloped when leona helmsley bought it in the 1980s. she planned to put up four big high-rises on that land. those plans got scrapped when she, too, had to go to prison. well now that same parcel of land really is being developed. this time with no mention of prison at all but the le...

Unexplained political reason. the head of the union for the port authority police paul nunziano has been silent. made no additions to his previous statements. nothing. which, itself, is remarkable because the whole coverup, the whole cover story that it was a traffic study on that bridge, the whole coverup story was attributed to him. and please excuse the shaky video on this one, but they pinned it to this port authority police official. they pinned it to him. and he hasnt said anything about i...

To assume that police officers who are stationed at that bridge know the ft. lee mayor has very little control over the bridge. >> theres also the story about the port authority police lieutenant who apparently did a ridearound with david wildstein the first morning of the bridge closures in order to presumably see the damage caused by those lanes being shut down. he is somebody steve kornackis reporting on who has longstanding family connection to the governor. the governor tonight denying ever...

Commutes that should take minutes are taking hours. kids cannot get to school. people are missing work. its been four days now. you have to stop this. and he said this, specifically, as to why it might be happening. the mayor wrote this, quote, many members of the public indicated to me the port authority police officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision that i as mayor recently made. according to the mayor, he say...