Christie put Brown, by then at a private law firm friendly to his administration, on his transition team with an assignment to bring on more of his staff. He later named her as his appointments counsel, one of at least 10 former federal prosecutors from his office he brought with him, including Marra.
The Justice Integrity Project researched the matter and identified it as a "Leading Case" of suspected Justice Department misconduct nationally, with details here.
Manzo, meanwhile is tireless in creating charts showing what he calls "undisputed facts" showing how the prosecution has been undermined by vast self-dealing and outrageous conflicts of interest by its leading figures, unfair devastation of defendant victims and apathy by ostensible watchdogs at DOJ and Congress. He says that Dwek has made vastly more donations to local Republican politicians than Democrats, under at least some circumstances constituting bribery, but that authorities declined to pursue those cases.
Manzo speaks passionately of the Christie charade of good and "limited government," and its nationwide implications:
This is the most egregious corrupt prosecution of all the cases you at the Justice Integrity Project are bringing to light. The tragedy of Bid Rig III is that if the government will stoop this low to target for prosecution grandfathers and single moms running in local elections who then is safe?
Manzo is seeking not simply to preserve his freedom but to document why the prosecution system is out-of-control both in New Jersey and extending to top level of his own Democratic party's political appointees in Washington, DC.
We'll summarize specifics shortly in a second part of this article. For now, Manzo seems a credible and indeed heroic figure from what we can tell so far. His opponents in government? Not so much.
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