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Christie's top port authority appointee and adviser and whose name pops up many times in the ft. lee traffic scandal e-mails. in less than one week after zimmer wrote asking for money and the city voted against the rockefeller development deal, zimmer met with lieutenant governor kim gaundano at an event. >> zimmer has told us that gaundano pulled her aside during that visit and delivered a message to her. if you want that sandy money, you need to get that rockefeller project moving, because it's very important to the governor >> zimmer says she documented the incident in her journal, writing ...

Letters that i've written, you can see that it wasn't illogical at all. it was actually a progression leading up to something where they wanted to give a very direct message because they felt like i wasn't getting the message clear enough so she was sent in. after she said to me you have to move ahead with the rockefeller project, i said any other town is being asked to do development in exchange for help with the flooding? and her answer was the storm brings in 12 million dollars. she was the one very clearly was connecting the development with the sandy aid in our conversation. >> the hoboke...

>> right, well, that's first time i'm hearing that. she didn't actually say that directly today, but yeah, i mean, this letter definitely makes it very clear that i was the one on april 23rd, sent them a letter and very clearly said, you can't connect the two, and it's not fair to connect the two, and that was part of the conversation that we had. i said, you know, are you saying -- after she said to me, you know, that you've got to move ahead with the rockefeller project, i said, is any other town being asked to do development in exchange for help with the flooding? and her answer was, well, ...

We are talking about federal taxpayer dollars, for sandy mitigation and relief, in the wake of this horrific storm that happened. the site of a huge political battle on capitol hill. that money being held hostage and used to make sure a private developer is given a government favor that will mean millions of dollars in private profits. i mean, this is absolutely facially corrupt, probably illegal, if it turns out to be -- >> yeah, yeah, if it's true. and i think, even beyond the legal questions, if it's true, i think there's something in the public's mind that is sacred about sandy money and s...

>> i spoke to the mayor this morning and told her that hoboken is in the front of my mind. and whenever there's any assistance needed here, we would be here to help. >> hoboken's mayor, dawn zimmer, said she applied for over $100 million in grants, but received just over $300,000 from the state. zimmer was frustrated. on may 8th last year, she wrote to the governor, saying, please, governor, we need your help. i have tried to assure hoboken residents that hoboken would be treated fairly, because you have always treated hoboken fairly in the past. on the same day zimmer wrote christie that lett...