now, according to a report from rutgers university, the new jersey town of new brunswick ranks 188th the list of new jersey communities that suffered the most hardship due to hurricane sandy. 188. that means new brunswick simply did not get hit very hard compared to other towns, so you have to wonder why, as nbc 4 in new york revealed yesterday 4.8 million in sandy relief funds, $4.8 million went to help build this. a luxury apartment tower in new brunswick. complete are fitness center and 10,000 square feet of retail space along with just 48 units of affordable housing. it's another data point driving growing questions over how chris christie's administration divvied up its sandy money. today we learned a new jersey spotlight analysis showed multiple irregularities allocated much. the same pot of money that hoboken mayor dawn zimmer says the christie administration stiffed her city on as part of the christie administration's attempt to get her to support a development project backed by the governor. there's the town of belleville, new jersey, ranks down at 254th of the communities h

about federal money for sandy relief going to a new apartment tower in a new jersey town called new brunswickwas not hard hit by hurricane sandy. that story broke after the newark "star-ledger" wrote up a story about a use of federal money for sandy relief. the town of belleville, new jersey, got $6 million of sandy money they directed to a senior center and housing complex. officials barely mentioned sandy when they talked about the project, and belleville's mayor told the "star-ledger" he didn't know of any people in town displaced from their homes by the storm. a few weeks before the big announcement in belleville about the senior center, that town's democratic mayor planned to endorse chris christie for re-election because, "i think the governor is is going to help the town of belleville with certain projects that we need." a couple of weeks after chris christie announced the project was going through, the local county executive also a democrat added his endorsement for chris christie's re-election. so there are these questions about that sandy money that went to new brunswick which wasn'

new brunswick is listed as 188 on the post-sandy community hardship index, compiled by rutgers university 254 on that same index is belleville, where governor christie personally helped a new senior center get $600 million of sandy money, a third of the cost of building it. although now the christie administration center will help others hit hard by the storm, christie said only it will help seniors from belleville to stay in town. again, we've got $1.8 billion that first round, $1.4 billion in the second round. and some of that money that was spent in the first round is on these projects which are now raising lots of questions. >> well, i think what people are saying, they're saying two things about chris christie. first of all, he is one of the most political governors in this country. and he has always been that, but he's gotten a pass up until this point. so thanks to the journalism and people coming out with these stories and exposing them and the work of your organization, now we're starting to see who chris christie really is and what he's been up to. i will say this. the second th

people have to look at that, belleville and new brunswick. the folks in the room that our producers were shooting last night have to look at this and say, this is a rigged game. >> the people who were in galloway on tuesday night, there were 200 people there not all of them got the opportunity to be heard. i think there are lots and lots of residents very rightly saying, what is going on here? why is this process seemingly not fair? where is our federal government making sure the process is going the way it's supposed to be? >> where is the federal government is the big question. residents in new jersey, just go out and hire wolf & samson to represent you in these proceedings. heather haddon at the "wall street jump" and stacey berger. >>> coming up, this guy again. >> do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam i am. >> turns out ted cruz doesn't like the senate minority leader much, either. extraordinary behind the scenes revelation of what exactly happened in the senate yesterday. seriously amazing intrigue in the senate chambe

there's a senior center in belleville that gets money, a luxury high rise in new brunswick. the people you are working with, the people that are sweating, that are getting rejected, what does that look like in the state right now, how do you say this money granted by the federal government is being dispersed in an efficient and fairway. >> people don't know what they're doing or don't care enough to know what they're doing. we asked them multiple times for the state to include housing counseling as part of their program. and hud recommends that they do, and new jersey just opted not to. there's no one really available to individual homeowners or renters through the process, it's very cumbersome and very difficult process. >> is there significant oversite of how this money is getting distributed? >> i don't think there is. there's an integrity monitor program that was signed by the governor, affected immediately. and to our knowledge has not been implemented. and would have been in play, should have been in play for belleville. >> it took ten months for them to appoint an int

. >> as manager of the new brunswick taco bell have you ever thought of charging people to use the bathroom because you would be a millionaire? >> oh, the diarrhea joke. you can pay $8 to use the bathroom or a vitamin water is $2.50. >> it is more difficult for us women. >> we can't really do that. think about the female anatomy, even though you haven't had personal experience. >> let me tell what you it will be used for, sex. gotta go. thank you, jet do dye jaw, jesse -- jedediah, jesse, will. i'm andy levy and i will see you next time. i don't know >> >> cavuto is back tomorrow. right now, "the five" live from new york city. >> hello, everyone. i'm andrea tantaros along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and greg gutfield. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." >>> on friday, the united autoworkers suffered a crushing defeat as workers at a volkswagen plant in tennessee voted against joining the union. it was one of the closest watched in decades, even provoking a response from president obama. senator bob corker said today the vote wasn't a result of anti-union sent

i read in the paper there's $4 million for a luxury high-rise in new brunswick. what do you tell them about the integrity of this money? >> again, it's the same problem. in the case of hgi, we don't have answers. as you know, the media keeps uncovering more and more instances allegedly where money was going, linked in some way to functions that may or may not have been related to the storm. and so, you know, again, if funding was going, you know, to projects or development that was not related to the storm, you know, that's -- that's improper use of the money. now, i mean, i don't have the details on all of these, and the media keeps uncovering them day-to-day, but i mean, if you look at what dawn zimmer said, the mayor of hoboken, the idea of linking this to a development project is totally wrong. and, again, it goes back to this same thing. you know, we fought for this money. it was supposed to be for the storm. it wasn't supposed to be linked to whether or not somebody gets a development project that has nothing to do with the storm. the whole issue of why thi

christie back in 2003 had a very interesting dinner with norcross at an italian restaurant in new brunswick. that raised some eyebrows because people wondered why is he going out to dinner with this big powerbroker who at that time was already under investigation by the state attorney general's office and also by the s.e.c. a couple years later the case that the attorney generals had been working on, the state case, was referred to chris christie's office. it was really a better fit for chris christie's u.s. attorney's office to look at. it was a very interesting case that involved some pretty damning wiretaps of george norcross holding forth in private about his power. and chris christie decided not to pursue that case in 2006, which, you know, you could argue that that was the right call to make, there maybe wasn't enough tlefd, but what was fascinating is that he put out a six-page letter explaining why he wasn't going to bring this case and basically blaming the state attorney generals for having bungled the case and going so far as to actually suggest they had somehow protected norcros

one yesterday, about $4 million in new brunswick, new jersey.egations coming out of hoboken about with held sandy aid. it is in the context of all this that it is now up and running. if the monitoring just began this month, if we are reading that statement correctly, the reports aren't even going to be due until june. we really won't know about this until june. >> june, maybe somewhat earlier than that. the problem here is that they were in violation of state law that whole time. the state law went into effect right away. they were required when they made each of those decisions to look at basic issues. they should have told the public if they didn't have the program up and running. if the outside folks were there looking over their shoulders. somebody should have told someone that. as with much of the administration and the sandy recovery, it was completely secret like the hgi decision, completely secret. like our organization needs to sue them, they tried to maintain s secrecy there over how programs were run. >> we couldn't track it down. the

this is held at the eagleton institute of politics in new brunswick. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. my name is john weingar. i have the honor of welcoming you here this evening. people that are here in the room and watching us on c-span. the eagleton institution of politics is delighted to bring you to this talk by steven fulop who was elected as the 49th mayor of jersey city and is this year's featured speaker for our program. i want to tell you a little bit about the man for whom this event is named. arthur holland was elected mayor of the city of trenton and served in that post for almost 30 years. this is a very old campaign button. he was known for his openness to the public and ethical standards of his administration. his reputation was such that colleagues around the country chose him as president of the u.s. conference of mayors. rutgers rockers -- and graduate. shortly after his death in 1989, rockers establish this program to remember mayor holland and to help build from his legacy. consistent with his life in the mission of the eagleton

pages of newly unredacted documents provided and released today by the new jersey legislature this guy, rabbi from south brunswick township pop up in the communication. he first sent a photo with house speaker john boehner later declaring the rabbi has officially pissed me off. he said we cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we? he reposts, flights to tel aviv all mysteriously delayed. for his part he said he doesn't have a clue why that exchange happened. the good news that the newly unredacted documents don't implicate him in any way. the bad news is that david samson, the top pointee at the port authority is grabbing new fire from across the river. >> i believe then and i believe now, obviously given the multiplicity of law enforcement investigations underway, there is some serious question that there was a question of violation of federal and state laws. >> patrick foye, the director of the port authority launched an all out war on david samson, the port authority chairman. governor chris christie begs to differ. >> do you still stand by samson as your appointee? >> strongly. firmly. >> ch

the good news, lori and ashley, cheryl did not wreck a boat this year at the miami international boat show. dusty mccoy, chairman and ceo of brunswickoming boat. i'm confident in your driving ability. >> he was coming this way though. i ducked. lori: no accidents. well-done. cheryl casone thanks. >> all right. ashley: from boats to your friday tech minute. twitter employees will have the opportunity to sell shares tomorrow for the very first time since it went public. according to the sec twitter's ipo lockup agreement ends tomorrow. 9.8 million non-executive employee shares will be available to be sold. on may 6th, another 174.7 million shares will also be eligible. >>> construction workers could be a thing of the past if harvard has anything to do with it. take a look at this. harvard engineers are developing small termite-like robots that could one day complete simple construction taskses without any help. the engineers provided robots with a construction blueprint and let them alone. guess what? they built the structures by observing and reacting to other robots around them without any further instructions. a lyle frightening. >

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