Was AUSA Brown’s Resignation Tied to FOIAs Revealing Link to Christie?

By: emptywheel Monday October 26, 2009 7:35 pm

Did former first assistant U.S. Attorney Michele Brown resign in an attempt to hide information about the loan her former boss Chris Christie gave her? Or because of the bonuses she is rumored to have received from him?

Meet the Mets? Christie Did – on Public’s Dime

By: emptywheel Tuesday October 20, 2009 2:35 pm

There's one more detail in that NYT article that deserves attention: Christie was apparently charging you and I for his personal trips to Mets games.

Christie’s Cookie Crumbles: Fed Attorney/Paramour Timed Arrests, Stonewalled Investigation to Aid Campaign

By: emptywheel Tuesday October 20, 2009 6:05 am

The looming scandals that we've been expecting to break on the Christie front are beginning to break.

New Docs Show Christie Living Large on Public Dime

By: emptywheel Wednesday October 14, 2009 8:29 am

Some of the documents long FOIAed from gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie's tenure as New Jersey's former U.S. Attorney have been released. And they don't have good news for Christie.

Michele Brown Gets the Payoff for Her Role in Deferred Prosecution Agreements?

By: emptywheel Monday September 14, 2009 10:06 am

Michele Brown gets a job--in no time--at a firm deeply involved in the Chris Christie Deferred Prosecution Agreement scam.

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Brags That Bush DOJ Wasn’t Corrupt Enough For Him

By: Eli Tuesday September 8, 2009 6:01 pm

Granted, it's not quite in the same league as Glenn Beck denouncing someone as an extremist conspiracy nut, but this rates at least an honorable mention in the Ginormous Balls category of the annual political awards that should totally exist:

More on Christie’s Below-Market Loan Gift to a Prosecutor in His Office

By: emptywheel Tuesday August 18, 2009 9:10 am

It sounds like Chris Christie's loan to an AUSA in his office ought to count as a gift under federal ethics laws.

Connecting The Eyeliner Dots On the Rove Role In DOJ Firings?

By: Christy Hardin Smith Thursday August 13, 2009 6:00 am

With the recent release of a myriad of e-mails, documents and breathy reportage and leakage, it's no wonder that Rove and Gold Bars Luskin tried to get themselves out in front of the wave by giving multiple "exclusives." Oxymorons notwithstanding, when you have bad PR coming your way, it's always better to stand in front of it shouting "look, over there!" It's like the dogs in Up.

Learning From Alberto

By: Teddy Partridge Tuesday August 11, 2009 2:35 pm

The Alberto Gonzales Legacy.
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