Discussion for article #235831
Now the question becomes: Will he spill the beans in exchange for a lesser sentence?
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I think it depends on what charges he pleads to and how stiff the sentence is and how much payola Christie has offered for his silence.
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Time for some rats-from-sinking-ships problems!
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I can’t wait for the other shoe to drop.
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Ain’t over until Christie sings.
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We aren’t equipped to answer any of those questions, not yet anyway.
It’s not necessarily the case that Christie directly involved himself in the bridge partial closure. It should be sufficient that Christie empowered those who did it.
We know, just from reports first posted at TPM, that Wildstein presents a more complicated picture than simply an agent of Christie’s will. We know that he’s been an online whistle-blowing activist blogging news reporter. We know from those also that while Wildstein and Christie were not themselves close, at least 3 others involved in the process that resulted in the closure were closer to him, indeed close enough to cement to conclusion the notion that Christie’s responsible for the culture that allowed for and/or encouraged the closure.
But we don’t know enough to go beyond speculating based on what’s happened in other cases of official abuse and corruption that, so far at least, don’t appear easily comparable to this one, and on what we might hope for given a partisan POV.
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The type of system Mario Puzo described so artfully.
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Christie ally?..wait…what? According to the Guv…he hardly KNEW the guy…
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Nah. Nowadays responsibility and culpability don’t flow UP. That’s an outdated notion.
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My guess is that he has already cut a deal with the prosecutor. The question becomes: Who has he agreed to spill the beans on?
But it’s also possible, as TeenlaQueefa suggests, that he has cut a deal with Christie – or rather, with Christie’s wealthy backers, in exchange for silence. And maybe that’s what precipitated Christie’s wife leaving her Wall Street job, evidently in preparation for a presidential run on her husband’s part.
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Every time I see “Christie Ally” in a headline, I initially read it as “Kirstie Alley”.
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sniff sniff What’s that? Hmmm, hard to say, but it smells remarkably like a freshly baked deal involving testimony in return for reduced charges to me. Ruh-roh.
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Some insignificant guy from high school will be the big guys swansong. lmfao!
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in preparation for a presidential run on her husband’s part, or to be with the kids when daddy is indicted!
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There were a lot of buffers.
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The 1st shoe dropped a few weeks ago.
A close political confidant and adviser to Governor Christie who has been the subject of an ongoing federal investigation arising out of the George Washington Bridge scandal said Tuesday that he is leaving the powerful law firm that he founded decades ago. And the firm, Wolff & Samson, is erasing David Samson’s name from the front door, a move that some see as an effort to protect the firm from any potential fallout that may lie ahead. . . . The name change — to Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC — erases any trace of Samson, a rare decision for a law firm that has built a recognizable brand over several decades. “If he is just going into retirement, it’s very unusual to change the name of an established firm out of the blue,” said Micah Buchdahl, a Moorestown attorney who works with law firms on business development and marketing strategy. “If you’re a well-known entity, as Wolff & Samson was, you don’t just throw it away without careful consideration."
Christie pal David Samson leaving his law firm which is changing its name
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I must say I like your theory better.
If it’s true that the guy has recordings that go back years - could be quite the kettle of beans
Legend has it he has his own treasure trove of documents squirreled away - but also possible Christie got into his beans before he had a chance to spill em
Mario Puzo, artful? The Godfather was by far the worst-written book I have ever bothered to finish, and I can’t in retrospect justify having gone past page three.