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During the week of August 4, 2013, Christie met with David Samson, Christie's appointed chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority.The deputy speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, John Wisniewski, who, as chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee had been leading the Assembly's investigation into the closures, alleged that David Wildstein, the Christie appointee who ...
David Samson (born August 14, 1939) is an American lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003. He served as the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28, 2014 in the aftermath of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal .
The Fort Lee lane closure scandal, also known as the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal or Bridgegate, [1] [2] is a U.S. political scandal in which a staff member and political appointees of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie colluded to create traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey, by closing lanes at the main toll plaza for the upper level of the George Washington Bridge.
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On July 14, 2016, David Samson pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to impede an airport project to coerce United Airlines to reinstate a discontinued flight to an airport in South Carolina, near a home that he owned. [69] He was appointed by Chris Christie. Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, 1921–1924 [70] Julian Gregory, 1924–1926
Governor Chris Christie nominated Degnan on April 29, 2014, to succeed embattled David Samson as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Procedurally, the New Jersey Senate would vote to place him on the PA Board of Commissioners, and then the Board itself would approve him as Chairman. [6]
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said in a Sunday interview that the recent bombshell CNN report on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Republican candidate for the state’s ...