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Gov. Christie faces new probe over Sandy funds
Accountable. Target planning ‘significant changes’ after breach
Second term. News of the audit arrives on the eve of his annual State of the State address on Tuesday.
Target Corp. plans to make “significant changes” in light of the data breach during the holiday shopping season when hackers stole personal information of millions of customers, the U.S. retailer’s chief executive said in an inter-
U.S. investigators are looking into whether embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie misused about $2 million in superstorm Sandy relief funds for an ad campaign that put him in the spotlight in an election year, officials said on Monday. Christie, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, is now being audited by the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an agency spokesman said. The probe began after HUD “received a request from Congress,” the
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline causing approximately $29.4 billion in damage. / GETTY IMAGES Marketing campaign
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The inspector is focusing on a federally financed $25 million Jersey Shore marketing campaign that included a commercial featuring Christie and his family. The ad cost $2 million more than a competing bid without them.
spokesman said. “It is inappropriate for taxpayer-funded dollars that are critical to our state’s recovery from this natural disaster to fund commercials that could potentially benefit a political campaign,” said New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., a Democrat, in an
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Aug. 8, 2013, letter requesting the investigation. The winning ad, with the tag line that New Jersey was “Stronger than the Storm,” aired in the spring as Christie headed into a reelection campaign to win a second term. Sandy devastated New York, New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast on Oct. 29, 2012. The storm killed at least 159 people and damaged or destroyed more than 650,000 homes, many in Pallone’s district on the Jersey Shore, where the storm made landfall. “Had Governor Christie chosen the less-expensive firm, $2.2 million in federal disaster aid could have potentially been directed elsewhere, for example, to provide 44 Sandyimpacted homeowners $50,000 grants to raze their homes,” Pallone said in a press release. REUTERS
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view with CNBC aired on Monday. Malware was installed on the company’s point of sale registers, Gregg Steinhafel said, and Target was working with law enforcement agencies investigating the breach. REUTERS
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One dead after Florida movie theater shooting A man shot two people in a movie theater Monday afternoon in Wesley Chapel, Fla., after an argument about texting, WTSP reported. The shooting happened at Cobb Theater’s Grove 16 & CineBistro, and authorities have the suspected shooter in custody. Officers told WTSP
that both victims were airlifted to a hospital, where one victim was pronounced dead. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said two couples were sitting in the theater watching “Lone Survivor” when the male victim was texting on his phone. The man from the couple sitting behind him began arguing with him and then shot the couple in front of him. ANDREA PARK