There's certainly enough available on Chris Christie to fill a book, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising that someone has done exactly that. And this particular someone was a New Jersey mayor who escaped Christie's partisan political dragnet, but not without cost:
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In his searing tell-all Ruthless Ambition: The Rise and Fall of Chris Christie, former New Jersey State Assemblyman Louis Manzo recounts an extraordinary tale of political ruthlessness, corruption, and greed while also telling the story of how he was caught in the center of one of the most egregious political scandals in modern-day history: the Bid Rig III sting operation, masterminded by the then United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and soon-to-be Governor Chris Christie. Manzo shows us how the blind ambitions of Christie and his staff centered on capturing a governorship and the patronage jobs that accompany it, then parlaying that office into a shot at the presidency.
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For a bigger picture of Bid Rig, there's
The Jersey Sting: Chris Christie and the Most Brazen Case of Jersey-Style Corruption Ever. It involved
"three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators...a (former) stripper...(and)...Solomon Dwek, who perpetrated a $50 million Ponzi scheme before copping a plea and wearing a wire as a secret FBI informant." Strangely, though, it
didn't involve a lot of fellow Republicans...