Judge orders release of Bridgegate co-conspirator names
Source: NJ.Com
A federal judge has ordered the release of the names of individuals who allegedly had knowledge of the scheme to shut down lanes at the George Washington Bridge before the Bridgegate scandal broke. In a ruling sought by a consortium of news organizations, including NJ Advance Media, U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton said the public had a right to know who else may have been involved in the high profile case or subsequent coverup involving the politically motivated shutdown of local toll lanes at the bridge that led to criminal charges against William Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Bridget Anne Kelly, former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie.
The names of those individuals, who have not been charged, have been provided under seal to defense attorneys in the case, but kept secret from the public by federal prosecutors.
"There is very little that is private about the lane closures or the lives of the people allegedly connected to them," said Wigenton in her decision. "Further, individuals thus far identified as being involved in the lane closings have been public employees and/or elected and appointed officials."
She said while privacy for third-parties was important in criminal cases, "this court is satisfied that the privacy interests of uncharged third parties are insufficiently compelling to outweigh the public's right of access."
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This ought to be good......a link to the judge's order: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2828708-Judge-Orders-Release-of-Names-in-Bridgegate-Case.html#pages/p1
This will probably include most of Christie's inner circle. Hopefully a bit of this tarnish will rub off on the Donald-but then again, how would you be able to tell? Heck of transition team leader you picked there Trump. Leadership matters?
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lock on to this,
now that's a home run if I ever saw one !
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