David Samson (lawyer)

David Samson (born August 14, 1939) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003. He was the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28, 2014 because of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal. 

On July 14, 2016, Samson pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to stop an airport project to force United Airlines to restart a discontinued flight to an airport in South Carolina, near a home that he owned.

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