Fired Prosecutor Interviewed By DOJ Investigators About Christie

Gov. Chris Christie listens to stories from successful students in the NJ-STEP program in West Windsor, N.J., Thursday, May 8, 2014. The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium provi... Gov. Chris Christie listens to stories from successful students in the NJ-STEP program in West Windsor, N.J., Thursday, May 8, 2014. The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium provides access to college for qualified incarcerated students, while assisting in the transition to college life upon their release into the community in West Windsor, N.J., Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) MORE LESS
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A former prosecutor who says he was fired for running afoul of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) allies was recently interviewed by federal prosecutors about the governor, the International Business Times reported Thursday.

Bennett Barlyn, a former Hunterdon County prosecutor who has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Christie, told IBT’s David Sirota that he had been interviewed by two Justice Department investigators on Wednesday at his home in Pennsylvania. One of the agents has been involved in the federal probe of the George Washington bridge closures, according to IBT.

Barlyn has alleged that he was fired in 2010 after filing more than 40 indictments against the Hunterdon County sheriff, who has been a supporter of Christie’s and headed a law enforcement group that endorsed him. Per IBT, the Christie administration stopped the indictments from moving forward. After Barlyn objected, he was fired, and later filed the whistleblower lawsuit.

The New York Times spoke in 2013 with some of the grand jurors who signed off on the indictments. They asserted that there was sufficient evidence to bring charges against the sheriff, Deborah Trout, who allegedly failed to perform basic background checks for her deputies.

Christie’s office denied any wrongdoing. “This truly is some of the most wild-eyed conspiracy theories I’ve heard in a long time,” a spokesman told the Times.

Barlyn told IBT that a “significant” amount of his conversation with the investigators centered on Christie, and he had provided them with documents that he believes to be “critical evidence.”

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  1. IF THE IRS BROWNSHIRts caN’t SHUT US REPublicaNS up, OHBUmmer and THE LIBTards CALLS in the FEds.

  2. Sounds like there is something there.


  3. Hmmmmm . . . Ya’ think so?

    ibtime.com - David Sirota February 05 2015

    Chris Christie Administration Is Target Of New Federal Criminal Probe

    Federal law enforcement officials have launched a criminal investigation of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and members of his administration, pursuing allegations the governor and his staff broke the law when they quashed grand jury indictments against Christie supporters, International Business Times has learned.

    ~OGD~

  4. Does Christie do ANYTHING for the people of New Jersey that is not an abuse of power? Sounds like this investigation would have taken just hours at most if its focus was on all instances of Christie nonabuse of power.

  5. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    He is really squeezing all the juice out, eh?

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