Asbury Park Press
by Bob Jordan
January 14, 2014

New documents obtained by the Asbury Park Press show the Christie administration is hiding details of the $25 million “Stronger Than the Storm” advertising campaign, which now is the center of a federal probe.

The Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is auditing the state’s decision to award the advertising contract to a firm that charged $2.2 million more than a comparable bidder for similar work, said Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr., D-N.J.

Pallone said he requested a federal review in August following a Press investigation that revealed the two finalists for the contract had different views on how the campaign to boost tourism at the Jersey Shore should be run following the 2012 storm. MWW proposed putting Christie in the ads. The other bidder, a team headed by the Sigma Group, did not. MWW won the contract.

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