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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 don't pay taxes, only little people pay taxes. she didn't 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 the sordid history of the land, the undeveloped land next to the george washington bridge in ft. lee, new jersey, leona helmsley of all people once owned that la...

It was not only wrong, unauthorized but probably illegal. the head of the port authority police union called that e-mail a load of garbage. he also said that there were no first responders who were delayed by the traffic mess in ft. lee which was definitely not true. but he said at the time, quote, was there any ambulance delay? no. was there any police service delay? no. in fact, there were both police delays and ambulance delays because of the bridge shutdown. ft. lee had been screaming their heads off about that for three months by then. but the head of the union for the port authority poli...

Nunziato 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 hasn't said anything about it since. watch this. >> so why september? i mean, this has existed for years. why now? why september? what transpired to have somebody say, you know, we ought to look at having less lane...

Question. why were police saying that? was it a coordinated attempt to send a message? obviously some of the people who were waiting in those lines and were frustrated were constituents of the mayor and they come from surrounding areas. so they're all being told to contact the hall. we know the mayor of ft. lee was contacted by he says dozens of frustrated motorists. so, again, if it doesn't make sense, the question is why were they telling motorists that? >> i guess is the sort of street-level knowledge in north jersey such that your average police officer working on that bridge, working in t...

Sent an e-mail saying he was going to take a ride with chip and see how it looks. well, msnbc's steve kornacki has now reported that chip is likely to be a port authority police lieutenant who has close and longstanding family ties with governor chris christie. grew up in the same time. knew each other since their were kids. lieu tenalieutenant was the onee coach of chris christie's child's team. and he just happened to be the police officer who drove around the architect of the bridge lane closures on the first morning they were happening, presumably in order to assess just how much havoc had...