{"id":18257,"date":"2014-09-24T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18257"},"modified":"2014-09-24T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:49:53","slug":"christie-team-digging-deeper-hole-in-pension-fund-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/24\/christie-team-digging-deeper-hole-in-pension-fund-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Team Digging Deeper Hole in Pension Fund Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/09\/christie-team-digging-deeper-hole-in-pension-fund-scandals.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">Christie Team Digging Deeper Hole in Pension Fund Scandals<\/a>.\u00a0 What caught my eye was the connection to Charlie Baker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To give a very short summary of Sirota\u2019s biggest current story, the IBT journalist has uncovered questionable connections with two prominent figures, Charlie Baker, who is a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts, and former New Jersey pension fund chief Robert Grady.<\/p>\n<p>First, a short background on the Baker story: Sirota showed how that Baker made a $10,000 donation to the New Jersey Republican Party shortly before Christie officials gave Baker\u2019s firm a pension management contract. That donation ran afoul of the Garden State\u2019s pay-to-play rules that bar contributions from executives and partners of entities that manage state pension funds.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey launched an investigation into Sirota\u2019s charges and announced that as a result, it was exiting the contract with Baker\u2019s firm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article does provide a link to <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> article <a title=\"The Boston Globe article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2014\/05\/09\/charlie-baker-connection-with-donation-and-millions-firm\/qurPDG07LQWQLYnLRQNPfO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baker denies connection between donation, investment<\/a>.\u00a0 I leave it up to you to decide if <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> article gives this story all the coverage you need to know as you decide whether or not to vote for Charlie Baker as our next governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Christie Team Digging Deeper Hole in Pension Fund Scandals.\u00a0 What caught my eye was the connection to Charlie Baker. To give a very short summary of Sirota\u2019s biggest current story, the IBT journalist has uncovered questionable connections with two prominent figures, Charlie Baker, who is a Republican gubernatorial candidate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18258,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions\/18258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}