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Emails show Bob Menendez as ‘amazing’ help to Xanadu project
February 6, 2015, 11:15 PM Last updated: Saturday, February 7, 2015, 9:35 AM
By JEFF PILLETS and HERB JACKSON
staff writers |
The Record
The developers of the entertainment and retail complex called Xanadu were frantic. It was March 2005, and permits they’d expected months earlier were still tied up with the Army Corps of Engineers.
“The Corps is playing games at the last minute,” executive James Dausch wrote in an email to his lobbyist, Kay LiCausi, a former top aide to then-Rep. Bob Menendez, the third-highest ranking Democrat in the House at that point. “Could you dial up Menendez on an urgent basis and tell these guys to lay off?”
A new trove of documents released this week as part of the trial of former Bergen Democratic leader Joseph Ferriero depicts Menendez jumping into action and winning a lucrative approval for jubilant Xanadu developers, who called the congressman “amazing.”
I wonder in our Mayor will take that page from Menendez play book ?