Chris Christie took a bite out of this bill and now he can’t find the receipts.
Those of you who usually expense things know to not lose the receipt because then, you won’t get your money back. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shows us that maybe you should be careless with these sort of things. This $82K bill with MetLife is worth questioning since the tab is 2 years old.
According to Deadspin’s extensive research, these receipts are just no where to be found and its baffling that the New Jersey governor just can’t find them.
Deadspin submitted a public records request asking for the debit card records, credit card records, and receipts from Christie’s DNS spending. The first response contained records that had already been released: the ledger, a copy of the state Republican committee check, a rundown of the governor’s allowance, and a bunch of papers showing Christie sending his leftover allowance back to the general fund. We wrote back asking why were why were no receipts, credit card records, or debit card records included. The response: They would get back to us with receipts.
After that report, the request was sent and Deadspin did get receipts but unfortunately, nothing really addressed the MetLife tab.
They just can’t find them?!? The governor’s office of the 11th largest state, leader of more than 8,000,000 people, a man who wants to be our president, just goes “Oh, we can’t find those receipts.” That’s the same excuse you used when you were in high school. We wrote back five days ago asking: “Does the governor’s office comply with any sort of records retention schedule or similar obligation? I’m wondering if the receipts were destroyed as part of upholding such a requirement.”
If this is who America chooses as their next President, we’re in for some other stuff to suddenly disappear.