Pay to Play Lives in NJ

New Jersey has the legitimate right to claim it is by far the most corrupt state in the nation. That title will remain as long as the federal government runs an investigation like this:

New Jersey's top federal prosecutor has offered a scathing critique of the way the state Attorney General's Office handled a political corruption investigation that included secretly recorded conversations with South Jersey Democratic Party kingpin George E. Norcross III.

Alluding to the "protection of political figures and the manipulation of evidence," U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said the state had botched its four-year probe of JCA Associates, a now-defunct engineering firm with ties to Norcross.

But after a 10-month review of the case, Christie said, his office will not take up the investigation into allegations of bribery and extortion. In essence, he said the Attorney General's Office had so muddied the waters that "it would be inappropriate to initiate a federal prosecution."

Christie's comments were contained in a letter sent Tuesday to acting New Jersey Attorney General Nancy Kaplan, who took over after Peter Harvey stepped down this month.

You got that? A major investigation into corruption found that there is evidence of widespread wrong doing and that the evidence was "manipulated" by the very people that the investigation was aimed at. The investigation also showed that the coverup was so complete that in essence continuing would be "inappropriate."

So in other words, the state AG's botched the initial investigations--perhaps because of political pressure--to the point that the feds won't continue the investigation.

To sum up, the Donk bosses get away with alleged bribery because of the incompetence of the state AG's office and the federal government won't continue the probe because it's just too hard.

Pathetic.