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Hoboken Site Developer Dismisses Law Firm
Rockefeller Group, a real estate developer whose proposed office complex in Hoboken, N.J., is at the center of allegations that associates of Gov. Chris Christie threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy relief money from the city unless the project received approval, has severed its connections with...Wolff & Samson...a law firm with close ties to the governor...A former member of Mr. Christie’s cabinet...Lori Grifa...who now works at the law firm, lobbied state officials on behalf of the project.
“Given the investigation,” Dwayne Doherty, a spokesman for Rockefeller Group said, “we’ve decided to shift our work on the project to another firm.” Rockefeller Group said the allegations were “deplorable” if true.
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"Close ties" to Governor Soprano? That's an understatement -- the owner of Wolff & Samson, David Samson, also happens to be the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey! Which means that though the position pays no salary, a lovely little paycheck would have been waiting for him at W&S once the Hoboken development deal went through.
I wonder what made the Rockefellers so nervous all of a sudden. It can't be that Christie gave Samson the Port Authority job -- that happened three years ago. And so what if the chairmanship doesn't pay? Samson can make a nice enough living off his clients who need to do business with the PA. It's all quite a mystery, LOL!