On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:03:27 -0800 (PST), "David Smith Jr."
wrote:

Christie Faces Audit Over Use of Hurricane Relief Money

Federal investigators have ordered an audit to determine whether Gov. Chris Christie’s administration improperly spent millions of dollars of relief meant to encourage tourists to visit New Jersey after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.

The audit comes as Mr. Christie is struggling with the most difficult crisis of his political career after it was revealed that people in his administration schemed to close local lanes onto the George Washington Bridge as political punishment for the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee. On Monday, New Jersey Democrats announced a new committee to investigate the closings.

This is not the first time Mr. Christie has come under criticism for the Hurricane Sandy funds: Many of the television advertisements used in the campaign, called “Stronger than the Storm,” prominently featured the governor and his family.

This is really one issue. The feds who gave the relief money gave him
permission to use some for tourism commercials (getting tourism back is
as important as rebuilding for relief, and it's good that they know
that.) so the first paragraph above is not a problem, but the problem
is that, according to what's alleged, another advertising company would
have done the commercials for half the money, or maybe it is 2 million
less, or both, but they wouldn't include Christie, or his wife or kids,
in the commercials. It's charged that the ads ran during the campaign
for governor and amounted to free publicity for him. But even that
might be okay if it were free. It's charged that he spent millions extra
so he and his family could be in the commercials.