Bloomberg Law
July 20, 2015, 10:00 PM UTC

Questions for Chief Counsel to NJ Governor Chris Christie

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

On January 8, 2014, Chris Porrino was unexpectedly summoned to the New Jersey Governor’s mansion in Drumthwacket: The next week, Porrino was scheduled to start as Gov. Chris Christie’s chief counsel, but fate had intervened, the now infamous emails from the Bridgegate scandal had surfaced, and his job was starting early.

That day, the Bergen County Record published a cache of private messages, including one written by a senior aide to Christie with the subject line, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” In the coming days, federal and state prosecutors began investigating members of the Christie administration, including whether there had been a ...

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