It looks like, years later, its finally in a courtroom.
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So… is Christie Guilty? Not Guilty?
Do you think there will be any surprises? If Chris Christie is impeached (and technically that is possible) could it pull down Trump’s numbers?
I’m still confused. What is the actual law alleged to have been committed?
Since Christie isn’t on trial, no one’s going to find him guilty.
“Baroni and Kelly are each charged with conspiring to misuse, and actually misusing, property of an organization receiving federal benefits; conspiring to commit, and actually committing, wire fraud; conspiring to injure and oppress certain individuals’ civil rights, and acting under color of law to deprive certain individuals of their civil rights.”
For blocking traffic? What am I missing?
I’m not sure what you’re missing. Are there parts of the DOJ press release that are unclear? I think it’s a reasonably concise summary of the charges.
Deliberately fucking up traffic endangered the lives of people, effectively cutting them off from some emergency services. The GW Bridge is an enormously expensive public asset, and depriving people from its use in an act of political retribution honestly doesn’t seem wrong to you?
And the misusing of property is covered by the misuse of “…Port Authority property, including the time and services of unwitting Port Authority personnel and other resources…”
It might be worth noting that both defense lawyers and prosecutors agree that Christie knew about the bridge lane closings. The defense originally said as much because they want Christie blamed instead of their clients, but prosecutors recently said the same about Christie’s knowledge of the scheme.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/bridgegate-trial.html
And we have testimony that Christie was directly involved in using the Port Authority for his electoral gain.
[ufl=http://www.northjersey.com/news/wildstein-christie-aides-used-port-authority-as-goody-bag-to-get-endorsements-1.1665806]Cite.
Meanwhile, Christie’s favorability rating is down to 23%, worse than Bush’s at the end, and there is talk of impeachment.
Maybe this will come up in the debate.
What were they being retributed for?
Do you really not know this? Post #9 in this very thread has that information. Both the prosecution and defense agree on this.
Sorry, but I’m with Saint Cad here - one should be able to follow a thread without having to click on a lot of links, and asking for further details should not be met with disdain from other posters who know the answers but can’t be bothered to share that info.
Post #9 quoted the exact information Saint Cad asked for in post #11.
Saint Cad has participated in threads on this subject before. He knows what we’re talking about. He’s trying to make some sort of point.
And, yes, there is directly quoted information in this thread that answers his question.
The mayor of Fort Lee was being punished for not endorsing Christie. But I suspect you may have already heard.
He asked what they were charged with, and I quoted the exact charges as well as provided a link. He then responded to the effect that he still didn’t understand the charges.
Since the link I provided can be read in about two minutes, I’m at a loss for how to respond to “I still don’t get it.” The most obvious question is, did you read the link, and if so, what is unclear? That seems like a reasonable response - to shave down “I dont understand” to “what part needs to be explained?”
Christie may be off the hook legally, unlike Port Authority Wildstein, but he’s still looking at impeachment. The Trump campaign is his only bridge out of future oblivion.
Northern Piper, this is hardly a new topic. There is no need to resume every discussion from the beginning. Sorry.
I dunno, maybe it’s considered “local news?”
I’ve certainly heard every juicy bridge detail from day one, but it may only be because New Jersey is right next door, like a neighbor who never mows the lawn and keeps a rusted-out automobile chassis in the front yard and lets the dogs shit EVERYPLACE.
Maybe Cad lives in New Mexico or someplace and doesn’t care.
Or maybe I didn’t because I don’t live in NJ. Are you going to be this condescending in every post you make?