David Samson (lawyer)

For other people named David Samson, see David Samson (disambiguation).

David Samson
53rd Attorney General of New Jersey
In office
January 15, 2002 – February 15, 2003
GovernorJim McGreevey
Preceded byJohn Farmer
Succeeded byPeter Harvey
Personal details
Born (1939-08-14) August 14, 1939 (age 85)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma materRutgers University, New Brunswick
University of Pennsylvania

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.[1][2] Samson is a partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff & Samson[3] from which he resigned in April 2015, and had been an ally of Governor Chris Christie.[4][5][6]

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.[7][8] 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.[9]

  1. ^ Santora, Marc (March 28, 2014). "Port Authority Chairman Resigns, Christie Announces". The New York Times. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  2. ^ Rizzo, Salvador (March 28, 2014). "Christie announces that David Samson resigned as Port Authority chairman". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  3. ^ "David Samson". Wolff & Samson website. Archived from the original on February 25, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
  4. ^ Strunsky, Steve (April 7, 2015). "Former Port Authority chairman resigns from law firm he co-founded". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  5. ^ Boburg, Shawn (April 7, 2015). "Former Port Authority chairman David Samson retiring from law firm". The Record. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference ShermanSamsonPleaExpected was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Friedman, Matt (July 14, 2016). "Christie ally David Samson pleads guilty in United probe". Politico.
  8. ^ McGeehan, Patrick (July 14, 2016). "David Samson, a Christie Associate, Pleads Guilty to a Felony". The New York Times.
  9. ^ Brodesser-Akner, Claude (April 5, 2017). "N.J. activist pushes for Samson to face jail time". The Star-Ledger.