New Jersey taxpayers just hired another lawyer for their governor. Gov. Chris Christie, who has already charged New Jersey $11.3 million for attorneys to represent his office in the feder...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/taxpayers-just-hired-another-lawyer-christie/
Back when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was a surging politician on the national stage, he often pivoted from controversies back in New Jersey by going on national television, where he'd take a...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-chris-christie-manhandled-charlie-rose-bridgegate/
Gov. Chris Christie's taxpayer-funded legal bills for Bridgegate spiked as the case moved to trial and proceedings began, according to the latest documents provided to WNYC from the Attorney Gene...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christies-taxpayer-funded-lawyers-increase-work-bridgegate-case/
The mysterious lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee have now culminated with mysterious jury deliberations at a criminal courthouse in Newark. The third day of jury delibe...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/bridgegate-jury-leaves-court-early-lawyers-huddle-behind-closed-doors/
It’s all up to the jury now in the Bridgegate case. Ostensibly the jury will have to decide if Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly, two former high-level employees of New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/trust-and-betrayal-trial-bridgegate-case-goes-jury/
Excerpts from Bridgegate defendant Bridget Kelly's second day of testimony reveal much about her legal strategy, and about how the Christie Administration worked. "WILDSTEIN WILL HANDLE IT." -...
In a dramatic refutation of Gov. Chris Christie's long-standing insistence that he knew nothing about the traffic study that led to the Bridgegate traffic jams, the governor's former deputy chief...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/bridget-kelly-speaks-christies-ex-aide-says-gov-knew-about-bridgegate/
Bill Baroni, one of two defendants in the Bridgegate case, took the stand Monday to defend himself from federal charges in the Bridgegate case. It is unusual — and risky — to testify in y...
THE BOMBSHELL: In the middle of a cross-examination at Tuesday's Bridgegate trial, defense attorney Michael Critchley made a startling suggestion. Critchley represents defendant Bridget Anne Kel...
For the last three years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has maintained that a week's worth of lane closures and traffic jams at the foot of the George Washington Bridge were the result of rogue ...
On the morning of Dec. 13, 2013, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stepped in front of reporters to take extensive questions on Bridgegate for the first time. He said he had "no reason to believe"...
Longtime Chris Christie adviser Maria Comella, the gatekeeper and image-maker who became the most indispensable part of Christie's team in the governor's office before running his presidential ...
WNYC reported earlier this week that acting Attorney General Chris Porrino was delaying the release of the latest Bridgegate invoices until after the governor found out if he had been picked as...
http://www.wqxr.org/story/publics-bridgegate-bills-keep-climbing/
Chris Christie suffered another political death Friday, losing a chance to become the vice presidential nominee. But Christie has resurrected himself before, and by our count he has one more li...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/nine-political-lives-chris-christie/
Dear Mr. Trump, I wrote a book about one of the few people you're considering to be your vice presidential nominee, Chris Christie. Yes, I know, your books have sold many more copies. But I s...
One of the tangential Bridgegate storylines that has triggered bad headlines for Gov. Chris Christie is how much he has charged taxpayers to cover the cost of the legal team representing his off...
This is what is missing from the federal investigation into Bridgegate: The cell phone in Gov. Chris Christie's pocket during the 2013 George Washington lane closures. Text messages the g...
While collecting a taxpayer-funded salary, a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie discussed rewards for those who endorsed the governor's 2013 reelection, WNYC has learned. Three newly revealed e...
Following President Obama's order Sunday to lower flags on federal property to honor the victims of the Orlando massacre, governors in almost every state followed suit, mandating that flags in ...
Who helped the indicted Bridgegate conspirators close the lanes to the George Washington Bridge? WNYC and other media organizations are seeking a single document: A January letter sent by Paul ...
http://www.wqxr.org/story/feds-side-bridgegate-co-conspirator-keep-his-identity-secret/
One morning in the mid-1980s New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean walked into in his office at the Statehouse in Trenton. His secretary said Donald Trump, the casino owner from Atlantic City, was on the phon...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-self-proclaimed-outsider-began-new-jersey-political-insider/
When the oldest of the Trump children, Maryanne Trump Barry, graduated from law school as a stay-at-home mother and landed a job at the US Attorney’s Office in New Jersey in the 1970s, she was...
http://www.wqxr.org/story/trumps-sister-judge-life-vastly-different-often-intertwined/
Apparent Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named Gov. Chris Christie as the chairman of his transition team on Monday. And that's amazing, because: 1) THIS IS AN UNPRECEDENTED ANNOUN...
It's been more than 2 1/2 years since lanes to the George Washington Bridge mysteriously closed. Two former Christie appointees were indicted in the scheme and have a trial scheduled for Septembe...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/bridgegate-back-court-i-want-governors-phone/
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE HASN'T DONE A TV NEWS INTERVIEW OR SPOKEN AT A TRUMP RALLY IN A MONTH. WHAT HAPPENED TO TRUMP'S MOST PROMINENT ENDORSER? 1) THE OFFICIAL ANSWER FROM CHRISTIE ALLIES IS THAT...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/3-reasons-why-you-havent-seen-christie-standing-behind-trump-recently/
Bill Stepien, a top campaign aide for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who was ousted in the wake of Bridgegate, is running an organization that is laying the groundwork for Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno's...
ATLANTIC CITY - Gov. Chris Christie has dedicated much of his time in office to saving Atlantic City. He created a state-run tourism district , he started a marketing campaign and he pledged mo...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/atlantic-city-bracing-takeover-sees-camden-cautionary-tale/
Gov. Chris Christie continued Friday in his new role explaining what Donald Trump means when he makes statements deemed extreme. This time Christie had to Trumpsplain what the candidate mean...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-trumpsplains-his-candidates-riot/
Gov. Chris Christie headed back to the campaign trail for Donald Trump again Monday. He skipped the funeral for a New Jersey State Trooper killed in the line of duty and appeared at multiple even...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-joins-trump-anger-campaign-events-ramps/
Gov. Chris Christie’s secretly-conceived decision last week to endorse Donald Trump has provoked shock, anger and disappointment, coming from his own inner circle to long loyal New Jersey Rep...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-allies-shock-and-shame-christie-runs-trump-and-trips/
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's law firm hired a digital forensics firm that has so far billed taxpayers more than $2.2 million as part of the ongoing Bridgegate case, according to invoices dati...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/publics-tab-bridgegate-legal-bills-now-exceeds-13-million-and-counting/
In the end, the Jersey street fighter got knocked out in the match he needed to win. Gov. Chris Christie finished in sixth place in the New Hampshire primary, which spells the end of his preside...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-new-hampshire-10-things-what-went-wrong/
NASHUA, NH - I met military veteran John Sullivant and his daughter, Pamela Aughey, on Saturday morning at a town hall meeting with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Aughey told me she was a proud a...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/why-its-fourth-place-or-bust-christie/
On the campaign trail, Gov. Chris Christie repeatedly accuses former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of criminally using private email for government business. He even said this week he would ...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/bridgegate-defendant-christies-lawyers-hiding-key-texts-emails/
Gov. Christie is losing campaign support from billionaire backers, but taxpayer-funded lawyers representing him in New Jersey legal controversies, including Bridgegate, have picked up the slac...
Ten months into Chris Christie's term as governor, he went to Iowa for the first time. He was there to campaign for Republican Gov. Terry Branstad. As Star-Ledger reporter Josh Margolin, coverin...
This is the third part of a series of three stories released in conjunction with the publication this week of WNYC reporter Matt Katz's new biography, "American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridg...
This is the second part of a series of three stories released in conjunction with the publication this week of WNYC reporter Matt Katz's new biography, "American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridg...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christies-voice-diversity-muted-presidential-campaign/
The first time I met Chris Christie in the winter of 2011 he joked, in a self-deprecating manner that caught me off guard, that I must’ve pulled “the short straw” to be assigned to cover h...
In the past week, Gov. Chris Christie has made several remarks on the campaign trail that have been refuted by fact-checkers. Here's a sampling: "THE MURDER RATE IN NEW YORK CITY IS UP 11 PERCE...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/fact-checkers-keep-slamming-christies-campaign-trail-statements/
Security costs incurred by state troopers who accompanied Gov. Christie out of New Jersey for 261 days last year could be more than $1 million, according to a WNYC analysis, but the governor's s...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-much-christies-campaign-costing-taxpayers/
On the eve of his presidential campaign, New Jersey governor Chris Christie promised that he would create a commission to look at whether the state's gun laws were constitutional. He said he'd a...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christie-moves-loosen-gun-regulations-nj/
A federal court judge says that although the taxpayer-funded investigation into the Christie Administration's actions during the Bridgegate scandal were inappropriate, a subpoena to seek more inf...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christies-bridgegate-lawyers-engaged-gamesmanship-judge-says/
One of the lawyers who issued a taxpayer-funded report exonerating Gov. Chris Christie in the Bridgegate affair is co-hosting a $2,700-a-person Los Angeles fundraiser for the governor's president...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/christies-bridgegate-lawyer-raising-money-christie-2016/
New Jersey ranks last in the country in spending on tobacco prevention, according to a new report . Of 48 states surveyed by a consortium of groups that includes the American Cancer Society, N...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-jersey-only-state-spends-0-smoking-prevention-2/
Chris Christie, governor and presidential candidate, speaks all the time. Mostly, he speaks without notes. Sometimes, he gets his facts wrong. Often, these statements are in service of larger p...
Gov. Chris Christie is banking his presidential run on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the nation. Last week a poll showed him jumping to 4th place from 9th among Republicans in...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/video-world-events-and-secret-weapon0help-christie-n/
At a recent auction for foreclosed properties in Mercer County, Diann Timian of Ewing Township sat in the courtroom and watched her three-bedroom ranch house offered up to the highest bidder. ...
http://www.wnyc.org/story/chris-christies-foreclosure-crisis/
In Tuesday's debate, Gov. Chris Christie argued that as a Republican from a blue state he's uniquely qualified to "prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton." But within hours of uttering those ...
Gov. Chris Christie was in Camden Monday to sign an executive order creating a Law Enforcement Appreciation Day — but he was also there to run for president. New Jersey Public Radio's Matt Katz...