'Traffic problems' email was no joke, key witness in Bridgegate trial says

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The government’s key witness in the George Washington bridge lane-closing case testified on Monday that he interpreted an email from one of the defendants that it was “time for some traffic problems” as an order to put a political revenge plot into action and that he immediately told Governor Chris Christie’s campaign manager.

David Wildstein worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that operates New York-area bridges, tunnels, ports and airports. He pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to cause traffic gridlock near the bridge to punish Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor for not endorsing the Republican governor.

Bridget Kelly, Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, has claimed the email from mid-August 2013 was a joke, but Wildstein testified on Monday that he didn’t take it as one.

“I understood that to mean it was time to change the lanes configuration at the upper level of the George Washington Bridge in order to create traffic in the borough of Fort Lee,” Wildstein said. “We had had joking emails before. I did not think she was joking.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/26/bridgegate-christie-traffic-problems-david-wildstein

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Associated Press in Newark, New Jersey
Monday 26 September 2016 18.05 BST

[rocktivity]

1. Of course it wasn't a joke. It was an order passed on from Christie

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that, via Kelly, could not be traced directly back to him.


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[asjr]

6. Christie will not have to spend a day in jail, but Gov. Sielgmen from

Alabama will continue to spend more time in jail away from his family. I wish all those Republican clowns would have to go there. It is simply not right!

[rocktivity]

2. Read all about it at the CU Christie Crime Digest

Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 |Vol.4


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[aeroman]

3. "an order to put a political revenge plot into action"

Plot that had to have been pre-arranged, planned and authorized from the top.

[Laxman]

4. Wildstein Just Testified....

that Bill Stepien, the former head of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs before Bridget Kelly, Christie's campaign manager and current Trump campaign official knew about the lane closures and the cover-up plan before they took place. Oh my..... and this
Christie staffer thought mayor “needed to fully understand that life w/ be more difficult for him in the 2nd term.”

These guys operated like loan sharks.

[Angry Dragon]

5. LOCK HIM UP

[Major Nikon]

8. At least he is cooperating

Bridget Kelly needs to rot in prison until she starts telling the truth about Christie's involvement.

[calimary]

7. Is it wrong that I'm smiling?