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A prosecutor who was sacked after attempting to indict Chris Christie's political cronies for corruption told MailOnline today about his ordeal at the hands of the New Jersey Governor's 'mafia.'
Bennett Barlyn, a prosecutor for 18 years in New Jerseys Hunterdon County, has spoken out following the revelations over the Bridgegate scandal to reveal his firsthand account of being fired and shamed at the hands of Christie and his political henchmen.
He said there were parallels between a criminal case he tried to prosecute before, he says, it was unlawfully dismissed and the Bridgegate scandal, where Christies staff closed off travel lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge, in order to retaliate against a Democratic mayor who had declined to endorse him for re-election.
'It's the same modus operandi,' he said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with MailOnline. 'It's the governor's office again using a state agency in an improper way for political purposes'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539440/EXCLUSIVE-Prosecutor-sacked-bringing-case-against-Christie-cronies-reveals-ordeal-hands-New-Jersey-Governors-mafia.html#ixzz2qofuoBem
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)you don't think it was a good strategy for Christie to "clean up" the state of NJ before he made it twice or three times as dirty?
Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)2naSalit
(86,765 posts)this could be the "take down" of the century.. and so soon into it too!
I suspect that everyone who has felt the sting of a Christie flogging will come out of the woodwork now. This is getting really interesting.
calimary
(81,435 posts)Now that the floodgates have been opened, and Dawn Zimmer from Hoboken has come forward with her story. On the heels of the mayor of Fort Lee. And others. Yep. The tourniquet's coming off the traffic lanes, and the traffic cones are slowly being moved out of the way...
Let the games begin.
Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)And the key is that an authority finally took interest to start an investigation.
God, I wish the same thing could happen in Central Florida. People would be coming out of the woodwork in the same manner to help clean up this place.
spanone
(135,859 posts)philly_bob
(2,419 posts)Cha
(297,513 posts)sheshe2
(83,855 posts)Times up!
Hey Chris, you are toast!
lib87
(535 posts)The chickens have come home to roost!
It's over!
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)torture innocent college students.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)The Emperor's New Clothes
A story by Hans Christian Andersen. An emperor hires two tailors who promise to make him a set of remarkable new clothes that will be invisible to anyone who is either incompetent or stupid. When the emperor goes to see his new clothes, he sees nothing at all for the tailors are swindlers and there aren't any clothes. Afraid of being judged incompetent or stupid, the emperor pretends to be delighted with the new clothes and wears them in a grand parade through the town. Everyone else also pretends to see them, until a child yells out, He hasn't got any clothes on!
People who point out the emptiness of the pretensions of powerful people and institutions are often compared to the child who says that the emperor has no clothes.
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