Federal officials say the settlement is the first time a local government agency has admitted wrongdoing in an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
During his appearance Thursday night on New Jersey 101.5's "Ask the Governor," a combative Christie continued his attack on journalists, media barons and Democratic lawmakers who opposed the legal notice bill.
These days, if Gov. Chris Christie has a public event, odds are it's about spotlighting addiction-recovery services. Wednesday's was a Statehouse candlelight vigil.
Lawmakers have almost 110 bills scheduled for votes in the Senate and Assembly on Monday, including a bid to override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of equal-pay legislation.
Gov. Chris Christie followed up his Friday night Twitter tirade about a bill ending the requirement for newspapers to publish legal notices with an op-ed piece he said was refused publication by the state's newspapers.
New Jersey on Monday could become the first state to stop requiring legal notices to be printed in newspapers, spreading them out instead to government-owned websites.
Committees in the Senate and Assembly endorsed a plan that would allow Gov. Chris Christie to profit from a book deal while in office and give raises to close to 700 public officials.
Pay raises in a bill letting Gov. Chris Christie sign a book deal would affect around 700 officials, totaling $10 million to start, then growing $3 million to $5 million a year.