Ex-Port Authority Lawyer Admitted Harassment

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A senior Port Authority lawyer who resigned last week with $156,000 in severance pleaded guilty in 2004 to a charge that he harassed a 22-year-old Rutgers graduate who had sought work at the bi-state agency.

Christopher M. Hartwyk, a cousin of Sen. Richard Codey who rose to become the agency's No. 2 lawyer, placed 160 harassing calls to the young man from September 2003 to April 2004, police records show.

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Ex-Port Authority Lawyer Admitted Harassment

Investigators who transcribed phone messages that had been recorded by the victim said the calls often came in bunches between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. and were sexually explicit and "threatening." Some, police found, came over an "executive cellphone" the Port Author...

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