HOW THOSE “DAMN YANKEES” ROLL …
|| By FITSNEWS || There’s a big story in The Aiken Standard this week shedding some light on the scandal currently enveloping United Airlines and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Written by reporter Tim O’Briant, the Standard story reveals the location of the South Carolina vacation home used by former port authority leader David Samson – the guy who took the fall for New Jersey governor Chris Christie during the latter’s 2014 “Bridge-gate” scandal.
According to O’Briant, Samson and his wife traveled to a two-story, 4,400-square foot home on Colleton Avenue in downtown Aiken, S.C. – right around the corner from the luxurious Willcox Hotel (a.k.a. Southern Charm star Thomas Ravenel‘s stomping grounds).
The property is valued at $2.4 million …
This week United Airlines’ chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek and two top company officials resigned their posts in connection with an ongoing federal investigation of Samson. At the heart of the probe? A money-losing direct route from Newark to Columbia, S.C. established by United in an effort to curry favor with Samson – whose government entity was in the process of approving a $2 billion expansion of Newark Liberty airport, one of United’s biggest hubs.
Samson was apparently tired of having to drive from Charlotte, N.C. to Aiken – prompting him to (allegedly) make the request of Smisek during a 2011 meeting.
United established the route – which departed Newark for Columbia on Thursday evenings and returned Monday morning (usually half-full at best, often less than one-third full). It discontinued the service less than a week after Samson resigned from the port authority amid Christie’s “Bridge-gate” brouhaha.
Left out of the Standard story?
According to our Aiken sources (which roll deep), Samson is a “running buddy” of former S.C. Senator Greg Ryberg – a Wisconsin native who is best remembered for calling the chronically cash-strapped S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to perform work inside a private gated community in Aiken.
Ryberg is also a staffer at the S.C. Retirement System Investment Commission (SCRSIC) – one of the nation’s worst-performing public pension funds.
UPDATE: More on the mansion here …
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Using the “system” to feather one’s pockets. Can’t we find honorable people? Anywhere?
They all have real jobs.
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I thought Ryberg was part of the Libertarian troika of Mark Sanford and Tom Davis…back in the day.
He is a greedy bastard.
Yeah they all DEMAND fiscal responsibility, and discipline for YOU, except they will fill their pockets with EVERY dime they can get their filthy paws on. That’s the Libertarians Party for you.
Wow: You think this has anything to do with the CWS games, USC will have to VACATE, according to FITSNews expert muckraking staff? Dumbass. (:
I am checking on that. Tom Rice may have bought a bag of popcorn at the CWS with money in an envelope full of Arby’s coupons.
Now that’s funny…. (;
Ryber’s brownstone, is about as close to the Wilcox as Samson’s Winter Colony estate home is, in the opposite direction. Ryberg bought an old gas station downtown and forced the city to pay for its demolition, and he developed 3 brownstoness on the lot, living in 1, selling the other 2. All of these asshat’s are crony capitalists, and corrupt cockroaches.
Hmm…..and those retirement pension investments were timed to buy and sell at what price of “blue star airlines”…??
not right around the corner from the Wilcox DUMBASS FITS. Much like WB Stadium oh boy….. let me catch u in my hometown.
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