Updated by Jason Springer: Here is the video from the NJN report tonight:
NJN is reporting that while US Attorney, Chris Christie gave Michelle Brown a loan of $46,000, which she is scheduled to continue paying off at the rate of $499/month to Christie and wife Mary Pat, until 2017. The story is not on their website yet, but was reported in NJN's evening newscast.
At the time the loan was granted Brown was fourth in command at the office of the United States Attorney for New Jersey. She is now First Assistant US Attorney. To questions from NJN about the nature of the loan, Christie replied they were friends and he helped her out during a financial pinch.
But given the mileage Christie is positioning himself to get with an anti-corruption plan he proposes as the Republican candidate for Governor, the timing - coming conveniently right after the massive political corruption sweep in July. That's magical timing, the kind of advantageous happenstance that's a lot easier if you have a very close relationship with somebody still in a key position in your old office.
Brown already pops up alongside Christie in settings that may be unacceptable in terms of the constraints of her job in the US Attorney's office, which requires top staffers to refrain from partisan settings, which Rep. Frank Pallone has asked the Justice Department to look into.
