On the evening before Christie fired her and called her unstable, Bridget Kelly received an
unsolicited phone call from an Attorney named Walter Timpone. Timpone (Christie's friend) told Bridget that there would be
a job waiting and she had nothing to worry about
The night before she was terminated, however, Kelly said
she got an unsolicited call from a prominent criminal defense attorney who
briefly served as her first lawyer.
"He was told to contact me," she testified. She never mentioned his name, but she was first represented by Walter Timpone,
nominated earlier this year by Christie and later confirmed as a justice on the New
Jersey Supreme Court.
Kelly testified that the attorney told her that
everything was going to be fine. "That a job would be found for
me. And that it would be okay," she said.
In 2002, the very same Walter Timpone was deemed unfit to serve as
First Assistant to then US Attorney Chris Christie because he lied to the FBI
about his friendship with US Senator Robert Torricelli (a convict).
Timpone was
representing someone the FBI had asked to wear a wire in order to gather evidence
against his close friend Torricelli. FBI surveillance captured Timpone paying a personal
visit to Torricelli's home shortly after they asked his client to wear a wire. FBI investigators believed that Timpone tipped off his
friend (Torricelli) about the potential confidential informant and they brought him in for interrogation. When questioned by the FBI about his relationship
with Torricelli, Timpone lied to them.
When Christie became governor, he appointed Walter Timpone to serve as a Commissioner on the Election Law Enforcement Commission
where he could use his legal acumen to process and adjudicate election law
complaints.
In violation of ethics rules Timpone contemporaneously served as
criminal defense counsel for Bridget Kelly and as Commissioner for ELEC. Prior to that violation, Timpone ignored an ethics opinion in order to help a connected politician violate campaign finance laws.
In 2013 Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo
was facing ELEC charges. Joe D had previously given
Timpone's nephew a job at the Essex County Citizen service office, Timpone did
not recuse himself and voted in Joe D's favor despite that conflict and in violation of an ethics opinion specifically
advising him to recuse.
Months later a Commissioner died and Timpone's
vote on the Joe D matter was necessary in order for a quorum to be present - that's
when he "remembered" he had a conflict and recused himself. The recusal
resulted in a dismissal for his friend because there was not a quorum. Joe D is a democrat who endorsed Christie.
As a punishment for breaching ethics rules, Christie nominated Timpone to the Supreme
Court where he faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Senator
Loretta Weinberg. During a telephone interview with Weinberg; Timpone lied and
told her that as soon as he heard that a matter involved Joe D he recused himself.
The next day the Appellate Division issued a
ruling that described how Timpone had voted initially and then recused and that
the recusal resulted in a dismissal for Christie's friend. The Senate had already vote 31-0 to approve a serial liar and habitual violator of the public trust; Senate President Steve Sweeney would not take any action to undo the vote that was based on a lie..
- “He told me, on the phone, that he recused himself from the moment he heard the name of the county executive,” Weinberg, a Bergen County Democrat, said after the vote. “That is not true. He did not recuse himself. And, in fact, he voted — according the minutes I have been able to review at the last minute — he actually voted after he got an ethics commission reading saying he shouldn’t vote.”
On October 24, 2016 Bridget Kelly testified that
this:
- unfit for First Assistant US Attorney,
- liar to the FBI.
- serial violator of ethics rules and
- liar to the Senate...
Timpone now sits on the Supreme Court and may very well
appear on a list of un-indicted coconspirators that the US Attorney is keeping
a secret from us all.
Supreme Court Justice Walter Timpone and Attorney General Christopher Porrino are profoundly compromised. WE ARE ALL IN DANGER
