What're you doing? Accepting the results of a probe is no fun. Let's Benghazi this thing and order like 9 hearings and 3 more probes and then refuse to accept the results of all those because they don't line up with what we want them to say!
Excellent. That would have been an abominable abuse of power, so it's good to know that it looks like he wasn't involved.
What're you doing? Accepting the results of a probe is no fun. Let's Benghazi this thing and order like 9 hearings and 3 more probes and then refuse to accept the results of all those because they don't line up with what we want them to say!
Oh *snap*Here are the key points
1. Wildstein, Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni were in on the plan to shut down the lanes from the very beginning. This is what Wildstein is claiming in his plea.
2. The decision to shut down the lanes to the bridge was done to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich for his failure to endorse Gov. Christie's reelection campaign.
3. The first day of school was chosen as the day to begin the lane closures specifically to maximize the pain on city residents and thus on Sokolich as part of a scheme of political payback.
4. There was a conspiracy among the Wildstein, Kelly and Baroni to, in the judge's words, "conceal[] the true punitive purpose of the plan" to close down access to the bridge.
5. Wildstein, Kelly and Baroni had a plan to refuse to answer Mayor Sokolich's requests for information and pleas for assistance and to direct others to do the same.
6. The statutes the charges come under are statutes USC 18.371 and18.241.
7. The plea agreement revealed today was prepared on January 12th, 2015 and signed by Wildstein on January 21st.
So Christie didn't know about it and was actually innocent?
So Christie didn't know about it and was actually innocent?
Why didn't they just delete all of the emails, that's what a smart person would do.
Yeah, wiping hard drives is better!You have a very strange idea about what it means to be smart, in my opinion.
Is it still possible Christie knew? Could they be taking the fall for him (and were very much a part of the scheme)? Or is it now known that Christie didn't know anything about it? And, if so, was it still a matter of business as normal?
NY is putting up with the same petty retribution crap from Cuomo to the Teacher's Union, because the Teacher's Union failed to endorse him for the election. So, legislation after legislation is being passed to "punish" the teachers, despite every expert saying the legislation had the opposite effect of what Cuomo was claiming he was trying to do.
Is it still possible Christie knew? Could they be taking the fall for him (and were very much a part of the scheme)? Or is it now known that Christie didn't know anything about it? And, if so, was it still a matter of business as normal?
NY is putting up with the same petty retribution crap from Cuomo to the Teacher's Union, because the Teacher's Union failed to endorse him for the election. So, legislation after legislation is being passed to "punish" the teachers, despite every expert saying the legislation had the opposite effect of what Cuomo was claiming he was trying to do.
Christie probably has a whole staff of thugs ready take out anyone that points a finger at him personally.
After all, this is New Jersey.
What will happen to Christie is unknown, but on the plus side he will NEVER ever no way in hell become president of our country.
And that is the good news you can take to the bank.
If Christie didn't know it's because he didn't want to know. And while I dislike Cuomo more than Christie, passing legislation is perfectly legal and above board. Intentionally closing lanes to punish a constituentuency might or might not be legal, but it certainly isn't above board.Is it still possible Christie knew? Could they be taking the fall for him (and were very much a part of the scheme)? Or is it now known that Christie didn't know anything about it? And, if so, was it still a matter of business as normal?
NY is putting up with the same petty retribution crap from Cuomo to the Teacher's Union, because the Teacher's Union failed to endorse him for the election. So, legislation after legislation is being passed to "punish" the teachers, despite every expert saying the legislation had the opposite effect of what Cuomo was claiming he was trying to do.
I don't think anyone is falling on a sword here. This kind of this is usually not directly ordered, it's just understood that that's how the Gov wants you to behave. I doubt there are any emails or texts from Christie telling his staff to do this, or acknowledging what was going on.
Everyone knows that when something is sensative you don't text or email, you pick up the phone. Phone calls are not discoverable. Phone calls don't sit on a server somewhere. Clearly this type of shit was so routine that it didn't even occur to the Port Authority staffers that there was anything to even hide. Amazing.