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Because they have failed to do x, y, and z -- >> and we're not going to pay them a settlement. >> okay. you fire them, you don't 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 didn't 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, very recently about integrity monitors put into place. the other thing strange about today, he sai...

You fire them, you don't 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 didn't 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 it's all the federal government's fault but he didn't take any responsibility for what the state has d...

>> 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 what's going on, it wouldn't seem so weird or it wouldn't seem like they're 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 we're not going to pay them a settlement. >> okay. you fire them, you don't tell anyone for six weeks? i mean, you veto a bill for oversight? there is no way to get answers or data out of thes...

Transparency and people get letters from the state that say we're not giving you money and they don't know why. the letter doesn't tell them why. >> the new brunswick story, does that surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise me. the state has had little given the reporting by steve kornacki of the lack of integrity monitors, given the fact we don't 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? >> they've given no indication -- they've given no indication that they're going to correct the mistakes o...

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. that's 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 ...