(photo credit: NJ Governor's Office)
From wnyc.org:
Four years ago, seven people sat down to dinner at Novita Italian restaurant. A federal probe is now examining whether that meal was the start of a bribery plot by United Airlines.
The dinner included seven allies of Gov. Chris Christie including former CEO of United Airlines, Jeff Smisek, and the former Chairman of the Port Authority, David Samson. Also there: Jamie Fox, then United's lobbyist.
At 5:03 p.m. on Friday, barely a year after he had been appointed by Christie as New Jersey Transportation Commissioner, Fox abruptly resigned. The stated reason was a "planned transition to the private sector." When Samson and former Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni resigned from the Port Authority in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal, Christie also said those resignations had been planned.
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The resignation came just hours after Christie had assured reporters Fox was fully involved in preparations for Hurricane Joaquin. And it came at the end of a week of news reports buffeting Fox, including reports on WNYC that he tried to halt the Bridgegate investigation and that records of meetings with him were hidden from documents released by the Port Authority. The AP had also reported that Fox didn't properly recuse himself from United Airlines business while transportation commissioner.
http://www.wnyc.org/...
A bit more from The New York Times:
Fox was part of a tangled web surrounding an aborted United Airlines effort to fly to Atlantic City's airport. The public agency headed by Fox, a former United lobbyist, did not require the airline to repay $104,000 despite a contract calling for it.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
This Fox guy looks like such a nebbish - it's not hard to picture him rolling on Christie. We can only hope...
h/t AnnetteK for the heads up on this story.