integrity monitors

A panel of New Jersey lawmakers used a portion of Monday's agenda to question a member of the state treasurer's office on the lack of progress with a Sandy-related measure signed into law more than a year ago.

New Jersey lawmakers learned today that, despite a March 2013 law requiring independent integrity monitors on large Sandy-related projects, they won't get their first status update from the monitors until this summer.

The New Jersey Legislature's Democratic leaders want the state to hire "integrity monitors" to prevent the misuse or waste of any of the billions of dollars in Sandy aid.