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David Samson (lawyer)
David Samson (born August 14, 1939) is an American lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003. He served as the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28, 2014 in the aftermath of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Samson is a partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff & Samson from which he resigned in April 2015, and had been an ally of Governor Chris Christie.
On July 14, 2016, Samson pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to impede an airport project to coerce United Airlines to reinstate a discontinued flight to an airport in South Carolina, near a home that he owned. Samson was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and sentenced to a year of home confinement at the South Carolina vacation house that was subject of the crime.
Samson was born to a Jewish family in Newark and was raised in Hillside, Union County, New Jersey.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in 1961 and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965.
Early in his career, he served a judicial clerkship with Associate Justice Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
During 2002–2003, Samson served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey serving as the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey. In this role, he supervised the statewide Divisions of Criminal Justice, New Jersey State Police, Civil Rights, Consumer Affairs and Gaming Enforcement, as well as the Division of Law, which represents all executive departments in New Jersey State government. As Chairman of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, he worked hand-in-hand with federal agencies in organizing and directing counter-terrorism efforts throughout the New Jersey-New York area.[citation needed]
Samson was formerly a close associate and confidant of Chris Christie. In 2009, Samson was counsel to the gubernatorial election campaign of Chris Christie and thereafter served as the chairman of Christie's transition committee. Samson has also acted as a court-appointed labor union trustee, a civil litigation discovery master and as a federal monitor pursuant to a United States Department of Justice deferred prosecution agreement.
Among his public positions, Samson was appointed by Governor James Florio as a member of the governor’s Commission on Health Care Costs and by Governor Thomas Kean as the chairman of the governor’s Task Force on the Laws Governing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also served from 1982-1990 as general counsel to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
David Samson (lawyer)
David Samson (born August 14, 1939) is an American lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003. He served as the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28, 2014 in the aftermath of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Samson is a partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff & Samson from which he resigned in April 2015, and had been an ally of Governor Chris Christie.
On July 14, 2016, Samson pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to impede an airport project to coerce United Airlines to reinstate a discontinued flight to an airport in South Carolina, near a home that he owned. Samson was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and sentenced to a year of home confinement at the South Carolina vacation house that was subject of the crime.
Samson was born to a Jewish family in Newark and was raised in Hillside, Union County, New Jersey.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in 1961 and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965.
Early in his career, he served a judicial clerkship with Associate Justice Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
During 2002–2003, Samson served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey serving as the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey. In this role, he supervised the statewide Divisions of Criminal Justice, New Jersey State Police, Civil Rights, Consumer Affairs and Gaming Enforcement, as well as the Division of Law, which represents all executive departments in New Jersey State government. As Chairman of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, he worked hand-in-hand with federal agencies in organizing and directing counter-terrorism efforts throughout the New Jersey-New York area.[citation needed]
Samson was formerly a close associate and confidant of Chris Christie. In 2009, Samson was counsel to the gubernatorial election campaign of Chris Christie and thereafter served as the chairman of Christie's transition committee. Samson has also acted as a court-appointed labor union trustee, a civil litigation discovery master and as a federal monitor pursuant to a United States Department of Justice deferred prosecution agreement.
Among his public positions, Samson was appointed by Governor James Florio as a member of the governor’s Commission on Health Care Costs and by Governor Thomas Kean as the chairman of the governor’s Task Force on the Laws Governing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also served from 1982-1990 as general counsel to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.