Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Christie Officials Hid Wall Street Fees From NJ Officials

Christie Officials Hid Wall Street Fees From NJ Officials

"Earlier this year, IBTimes reported that the Christie administration had quietly changed how pension fees were reported. Amid a pay-to-play investigation and general scrutiny of Christie officials delivering pension deals to politically connected financial firms, the governor’s State Investment Council specifically classified $335 million of payments to financial firms as “performance allocations,” allowing the Christie administration to assert that the state paid just $265 million in fees that year."