Ex-Aide: There Are 'Inaccuracies' In Christie's Self-Exoneration
Source: TPM
ERIC LACH – MAY 6, 2014, 1:03 PM EDT
Testimony given Tuesday by a former member of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration raised more questions about a report clearing Christie of any involvement in the George Washington Bridge scandal.
The legislative committee investigating the scandal heard Tuesday from Christina Renna, who worked in the governor's Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, known as IGA. In her role, Renna worked under both Bill Stepien, who left the office in 2013 to run Christie's re-election campaign, and Bridget Kelly, who succeeded Stepien and who is the administration figure most closely tied to the plan to close Fort Lee, N.J.'s access lanes to the bridge in September.
During her testimony, Renna was asked by state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D), one of the committee's co-chairs, about an interview conducted by lawyers from the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which was hired to represent Christie's office and do an internal review of the scandal. The law firm released a report of their findings earlier this year, clearing Christie. Last month, the firm also made public "summaries" of the interviews it conducted with 75 witnesses. On Tuesday, Weinberg asked Renna about the following passage included in the legal team's summary of her interview:
But Renna said she had problems with the language used in the document. "'Mandatory directive' were not my words," Renna said. "If you notice, they are not in quotation marks. That was Gibson Dunn's words. That was their characterization. They are never words I would have used. I would never use 'mandatory directive,' except in one incident which we can circle back to. They were not my words."
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