'NYO': Meet The Big Fat Prosecutor Who Nailed Our Owner's Dad
So there's not much of a Senatorial race here in New York, what with Hilary Clinton looking pretty close to be the first candidate to ever receive more the one hundred percent of the vote. Across the river, however, it's a different matter: Sen. Bob Menendez is locked in a tough battle with Tom Kean, Jr., a state senator and son of a popular former governor. What's making the race unusually tight is the sense that Menendez, is, well, sort of dirty in the way that pretty much all Jersey politicians are. Fuelling that perception is Chris Christie, a Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney who announced "an investigation—61 days before voters go to the polls—into a nonprofit agency connected to Mr. Menendez." Democrats are predictably apoplectic, charging Christie with political motives. But what sort of prosecutor is he? The Observer lists some of his recent targets:
He has now successfully gone after figures with Democratic ties, like the powerful former State Senator John Lynch and real-estate magnate Charles Kushner, as well as Republicans like former Essex County Executive James Treffinger, the G.O.P.'s top Senate prospect in 2002.
Wha? Charles Kushner? That monster? Okay, Christie's square with us: He put away a bad man.
Prosecutor Makes a Meal of N.J. Senate Race [NYO]
Earlier: Charles Kushner Back at the Office?