You Gotta Hand It to Chris Christie
Time for some campaign problems in Fort T.
By Charles P. Pierce
Nov 4, 2016
Big Chicken, ready for roasting. Talk to us, NJ.com.
In a seven-week trial that saw their own words used against them, Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly were convicted of helping orchestrate massive traffic tie-ups at the George Washington Bridge in September 2013. The plot was hatched to send a pointed message to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, after he stepped back from his earlier public support of Gov. Chris Christie.
The jury passed a note to judge Friday morning, indicating it had reached a verdict. Attorneys started to filter back into the federal courthouse around 11 a.m. The jury began reading its findings just before 11:30 a.m. and delivered their guilty decisions in rapid fire.
Baroni and Kelly were charged on nine counts, and faced five of them together. The other four charges were split evenly, two each for the defendants. Baroni stared at the jury stoically as the verdicts were read. Kelly cried and continued to sob as she heard the word guilty repeated time and again. Neither defendant stood as the verdicts were read.
The following things are now incontrovertible. Actual crimes were committed in the closures of parts of the George Washington Bridge. These crimes were committed, and subsequently covered up, by people in the employ of Governor Chris Christie, and they were committed as acts of political retribution by the administration of Governor Chris Christie. Two people are headed for the federal sneezer and both of them were key officials in the administration of Governor Chris Christie.
Governor Chris Christie was scheduled to campaign on behalf of Donald Trump over the weekend, as the Republican presidential campaign delivers its "closing argument" that Hillary Rodham Clinton is dangerously corrupt. Nobody ever said the American judicial system lacked a sense of the moment.
Time for some campaign problems in Fort T.
Quote:Governor Chris Christie was scheduled to campaign on behalf of Donald Trump over the weekend, as the Republican presidential campaign delivers its "closing argument" that Hillary Rodham Clinton is dangerously corrupt. Nobody ever said the American judicial system lacked a sense of the moment.
By Charles P. Pierce
Nov 4, 2016
Big Chicken, ready for roasting. Talk to us, NJ.com.
In a seven-week trial that saw their own words used against them, Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly were convicted of helping orchestrate massive traffic tie-ups at the George Washington Bridge in September 2013. The plot was hatched to send a pointed message to Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, after he stepped back from his earlier public support of Gov. Chris Christie.
The jury passed a note to judge Friday morning, indicating it had reached a verdict. Attorneys started to filter back into the federal courthouse around 11 a.m. The jury began reading its findings just before 11:30 a.m. and delivered their guilty decisions in rapid fire.
Baroni and Kelly were charged on nine counts, and faced five of them together. The other four charges were split evenly, two each for the defendants. Baroni stared at the jury stoically as the verdicts were read. Kelly cried and continued to sob as she heard the word guilty repeated time and again. Neither defendant stood as the verdicts were read.
The following things are now incontrovertible. Actual crimes were committed in the closures of parts of the George Washington Bridge. These crimes were committed, and subsequently covered up, by people in the employ of Governor Chris Christie, and they were committed as acts of political retribution by the administration of Governor Chris Christie. Two people are headed for the federal sneezer and both of them were key officials in the administration of Governor Chris Christie.
Governor Chris Christie was scheduled to campaign on behalf of Donald Trump over the weekend, as the Republican presidential campaign delivers its "closing argument" that Hillary Rodham Clinton is dangerously corrupt. Nobody ever said the American judicial system lacked a sense of the moment.
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