CAMDEN, N.J., April 22 (UPI) -- Angry e-mails were sent to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's driver before the high-speed crash that left the governor critically injured.
Authorities were looking into whether the messages from the husband of a woman the governor's driver allegedly was having an affair with had any effect on his mental state.
The e-mail writer, Berkeley Heights police Detective-Sgt. Michael Mathis, had learned a month ago his wife had been having an affair with state Trooper Robert Rasinski, and sent him a series of communications, including on the day of the accident, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported Sunday.
Mathis said in postings in a Statehouse forum on NJ.com that just minutes before the April 12 crash, he sent Rasinski an e-mail. "I hope it didn't cause the crash," Mathis wrote, "but no man in his right mind could have been thinking clearly with the affair exposed."
Mathis declined to comment further.
It was not known whether Rasinski had access to, or had been using, a device capable of reading Mathis' last message. Other officials have said the trooper was focusing on the road at the time of the crash.
