Bridget Kelly: Christie knew of lane closures a month in advance

Posted by | October 21, 2016 17:37 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


This is extremely damaging testimony from Chris Christie’s former deputy chief of staff.

The former deputy chief of staff testified that the governor approved the study, which prosecutors allege actually was cover-up for a revenge plot against a local Democratic mayor.

Christie has long maintained that he knew nothing about the lane closures that brought traffic in the town of Fort Lee, New Jersey to a days-long standstill until he read about them in the press in late September or early October 2013. Yet Kelly and other former Christie allies have contradicted what Christie’s said about what he knew of the lane closures and when throughout the federal trial investigating the so-called Bridgegate scheme.

Telling her version of the saga for the first time from the witness stand Friday, Kelly testified that former Port Authority official David Wildstein informed her on Aug. 12, 2013 that he was moving forward with a traffic study that he said would create major traffic problems in Fort Lee, according to WABC. Kelly testified she then informed Christie about the study, and alleged he said he was alright with it.

“He said, ‘All right.’ He didn’t really react. He said that’s fine. He said, ‘How is the relationship with Mayor Sokolich’ of Fort Lee?” Kelly testified, according to Philly.com. “And I didn’t know. I really didn’t know.”

The next day she sent the email that would cast a shadow over Christie’s administration for years to come: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” she wrote to Wildstein.

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4 responses to Bridget Kelly: Christie knew of lane closures a month in advance

  1. granpa.usthai October 21st, 2016 at 18:16

    ut oh!

    sounds like the big guy and his hand picked judge to find him innocent of any wrongdoing might need to do some explaining.

  2. dogsRgoodpeople October 21st, 2016 at 19:35

    Keeping traffic flowing is what all these people should have been doing. They did the opposite intentionally. People could have needed quick medical care,their loved ones , etc.I hope they do time……………I doubt they will.

  3. StoneyCurtisll October 21st, 2016 at 20:43

    The truth about Crisp Crispie finally comes out, under oath in court…
    The lying bastard knew in advance and approved it all along.

  4. oldfart October 23rd, 2016 at 12:18

    That presidential pardon from tRump ain’t coming either Chris…
    C’YA.

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