United Airlines will pay $2.4 million to settle civil charges by securities regulators over flights that were started to help the disgraced former chairman of the Port Authority of New Jersey and New York.
In addition, members of the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey — which investigated David Samson, charging him with the shakedown to which Samson later pleaded guilty — also took the flight.
A longtime associate of Gov. Chris Christie, whose tenure as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has come under scrutiny from federal prosecutors, is retiring from one of New Jersey's most powerful law firms.