Two former allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) convicted for carrying out a politically-motivated revenge plot to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge have filed for new trials.
Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, and top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Bill Baroni, filed separate motions on Friday, according to WCBS.
The pair was found guilty last week on seven counts each of fraud and conspiracy for their role in orchestrating the lane closures, which created a days-long traffic jam. Prosecutors alleged that the scheme was meant to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey for refusing to endorse Christie’s reelection bid.
Another Port Authority official with close ties to the governor, David Wildstein, struck a plea deal for his own key role in cooking up the plot.
Christi has maintained that he had no role or prior knowledge of their plan, though both the prosecution and defense in the trial argued that he did. Kelly and Wildstein testified that they spoke to Christie about the lane closures and the motivation behind them while they were still underway.
Gosh, another poorly written article! How about even one sentence about their grounds for a new trial? We are left hanging…arrghh!
Are they willing to roll over on Christie yet?
They truly believe because they are white and Republicans that they are above any convictions. I know these types of people.
Actually, what it needed was a sentence that explained this is a standard post-trial motion necessary to preserve certain issues for appeal and, in most jurisdictions, that tolls the time in which an appeal must be taken.
Everyone with subject matter expertise must endure the pain of reading/listening to the press portray things that are inconsequential as big fucking deals, whether because they don’t know any better or they do but know most people don’t. If you’re a lawyer who also has a background in system administration, the reporting on the Scandalous Clinton Email Server and Cloud and Shadow Generator was painful in real time but feels like death agony now.
I had a friend who observed, many years ago, that every time, and I do mean every time, the Washington Post printed an article that involved something about which he had personal knowledge, the Post got some material aspect of the story wrong - either the raw facts, or the import of those facts. This led him to mistrust pretty much everything he read, and for damn good reason.