Lawyers in GWB case cite Nixon in seeking Christie's phone records
Source: Bergen Record/NorthJersey.com
In filings late Monday opposing an attempt to block a request for the records, the attorneys for two indicted former Christie allies also repeated accusations that the law firm representing Christie's office has deliberately refused to turn over documents it is obligated to produce and ignored potentially damaging evidence.
The attorneys represent indicted former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive Bill Baroni and former Christie staffer Bridget Kelly, who face wire fraud, civil rights and other charges and are scheduled for trial in September.
They argue the Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher law firm must turn over communications Christie made during the September 2013 lane closures and text messages he sent to a staffer during Baroni's testimony to a legislative committee in 2013.
The request satisfies the standard set by the Supreme Court in ordering Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes — that there is a "sufficient likelihood" based on "rational inferences" the materials will lead to relevant and admissible evidence, they wrote.
Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/lawyers-in-gwb-case-cite-nixon-in-seeking-christie-s-phone-records-1.1615718
The bottom line here is that Christie is hiding his phone. He claims he gave it to "the government" two years ago, but the U.S. attorney's office said it has never had the phone.
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