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    kbasaBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:41pm

    I work in electronic discovery and this is a Very Big Deal. In the civil litigation arena, this will get you sanctioned and potentially lose your ability to practice law.

    For reference: Read about UBS Warburg v. Zubulake in which a set of documents found on backup tapes after the discovery window closed lead to the judge instructing the jury to consider the tapes as potentially being damaging to the defendant’s case. That lead to a judgement against the defendant which included $130M in punitive damages, above and beyond the settlement for improper termination.

    It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.

    Side note: If you’re a person that uses one phone for both your personal and work email, stop it. If you’re doing work mail from your personal phone and get involved in litigation, you will be subpoenaed to turn that device over without altering its contents under penalty of law.

    Two phones. Separate email accounts. Keep a very bright line between them unless you like having a bunch of lawyers reading your personal items. And they will be required to read all of your personal stuff.

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      UrbanNunEnthusiastkbasa
      6/29/16 4:51pm

      This kinda terrifies me. I answer work emails on my phone all the time and never gave it a second thought. Everyone in my company does it.

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      Thisisnttheaccountkbasa
      6/29/16 4:55pm

      When you’re vice president Chris Christie, you got no worries about state charges

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    Jerry-NetherlandBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:22pm

    Chris Christie lacks the agile fitness to twist himself into the pretzel necessary to explain how this is okay but Hillary’s email isn’t.

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      Misteaks were madeJerry-Netherland
      6/29/16 4:25pm

      He’s shaped like a Dunkin’s Munchkin; only larger by a factor of 8000.

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      RobNYCJerry-Netherland
      6/29/16 4:25pm

      We’ll just have to chalk it up to IOKIYAR.

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    AcridsheepBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:22pm

    I didn’t get the outrage when HRC did it, and I won’t get it with Snuffleupagus either.

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      Captain HindsightAcridsheep
      6/29/16 4:24pm

      so you’re consistently stupid, is that the point?

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      AcridsheepCaptain Hindsight
      6/29/16 4:26pm

      I guess so.

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    Promnight Dumpster Baby FireBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:30pm

    You know what gets me is the David Sampson thing. He was Chairman of the Port Authority when this went on, and it came out that he blackmailed an airline into creating a special flight just for him. It was so bad that US Airways did an internal investigation, and then summarily fired their fucking CEO, because he gave a bribe to David Sampson, and this was all reported and all discussed, and that Sampson fucker walked, and the prosecutor apparently has no intention of prosecuting him. Being an ex-Attorney General apparently makes you above the law. This fucker, he actually lived in South Carolina when he was chairman of the Port Authority, but he would fly up Monday mornings and return to South Carolina Thursday afternoons. The nearest scheduled flight from Newark landed somewhere hours from his home in South Carolina, so, what happened was, when US Airways, the largest tenant at Newark Airport, owned by the Port Authority, was negotiating its lease and trying to get some facilities upgrades, Sampson flat out shook them down, demanded that they institute a direct flight to an airport close to his South Carolina home, demanded it as a direct quid pro quo. It was a joke around the Port Authority, they called it the "chairman's flight." It was always half empty. And when Sampson was forced to resign, US Airways cancelled the flight that day and forever. And they aren't prosecuting this fucker. Its mind-boggling.

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      KinjaNinjaOnABinjaPromnight Dumpster Baby Fire
      6/29/16 5:20pm

      It was always half empty.

      Pessimist, eh?

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      Kenhe LoginPromnight Dumpster Baby Fire
      6/29/16 6:33pm

      Unless they can prove it was explicitly a quid pro quo the SCOTUS is totes cool with it.

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    LetsgobowlingBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:16pm

    Huh. I always assumed Christie was terrible at hiding.

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      VtDkDudeLetsgobowling
      6/29/16 4:23pm

      You got me. I feel like a terrible person, but I laughed.

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      RobNYCLetsgobowling
      6/29/16 4:24pm
      GIF
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    SoapBoxcarWillieBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:34pm

    Such a strange turn of events for the guy who Donald Trump would make AG, and put in charge of prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her email scandal.

    I’m sure this will be explained away as acceptable, because NJ state business probably doesn’t have much sensitive/classified national-security related info, but it still sounds an awful lot like obstruction of justice.

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      CharitybSoapBoxcarWillie
      6/29/16 7:44pm

      There's no way Trump will make him AG. Trump considers Christie a joke and treats him with open contempt to his face. Christie is lying to himself if he thinks that Trump will appreciate him more later after he has already won the election and no longer actually needs his help.

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      BigmouthSoapBoxcarWillie
      6/29/16 7:48pm

      Not AG, border security. He’ll be the Wall.

      I’ll show myself out now...

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    Quasar FunkBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:27pm

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      shelwoodQuasar Funk
      6/29/16 5:06pm

      New phone, who dis?

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      KinjaNinjaOnABinjaQuasar Funk
      6/29/16 5:17pm
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    e.nonBrendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 4:18pm

    do they actually need the physical phone to get the previous calls... wouldn’t it be hilarious if fatso got nailed for this... although, he won’t

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      Ginger Is A Constructe.non
      6/29/16 5:45pm

      I know. It pains me to think that Christie still thinks he’ll be Trump’s VP, and if he goes down for this Christie will be convinced that were it not for this scandal, he’d be sitting pretty in the naval observatory, taking calls from Grand Dragon Trump.

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      DidYouReallyRespondToMyComment?e.non
      6/29/16 7:02pm

      He’ll probably just get stapled.

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    TimF101Brendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 5:26pm

    Is Gibson Dunn an actual law firm? With lawyers in it? I guess they squeezed New Jersey for everything they could get to make sure they didn’t lose the house after the state bar revokes their license.

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      RobNYCTimF101
      6/30/16 10:01am

      Yes. And the guy leading the investigation is a crony of Christie’s.

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    Flm3454Brendan O'Connor
    6/29/16 7:33pm

    Question: Couldn't the FBI just subpoena the phone company to see the texts?

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      RobNYCFlm3454
      6/30/16 10:02am

      That’s my question but that assumes they still have the data on file. Not sure how long they keep records like that.

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