{"id":181084,"date":"2016-10-07T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/07\/be-still-my-beating-heart-7\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T00:49:00","slug":"be-still-my-beating-heart-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/07\/be-still-my-beating-heart-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Still My Beating Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Testimony in the Bridgegate trial implicates Andrew Cuomo in the coverup of the political retaliation by the Christie administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A onetime top ally of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie<\/a> said the governor and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> discussed releasing a false report to tamp down questions over the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal, the prosecution’s key witness testified Tuesday. <\/p>\n

David Wildstein<\/a>, who pleaded guilty in the gridlock scheme and is cooperating with prosecutors, said former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey<\/a> Chairman David Samson<\/a> told him the governors discussed the idea in October 2013. The report would have attributed the lane closures to a traffic study, covering up the true reason for the closures: political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee for failing to endorse Christie’s 2013 re-election, Wildstein testified. <\/p>\n

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Baroni, who served as Christie’s top appointed staff aide at the Port Authority, and Bridget Kelly<\/a>, Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, are on trial facing wire fraud and civil rights charges. They have pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n

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“My understanding was that (Republican) Gov. Christie and (Democratic) Gov. Cuomo had discussed this,” Wildstein said under cross-examination Tuesday, according to the Bergen Record, adding he was told the information by Samson. “My understanding at the time was that it would put an end to this issue.” <\/p>\n

Wildstein also testified Tuesday that Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye<\/a>, a Cuomo appointee, was to “sign off” on the false report. Through an attorney, Foye declined to comment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I so hope that this is true, and that additional supporting information could be down.<\/p>\n

If Bridgegate were to take down that sh%$heel Cuomo as well as Christie, it would be delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Testimony in the Bridgegate trial implicates Andrew Cuomo in the coverup of the political retaliation by the Christie administration: A onetime top ally of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the governor and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo discussed releasing a false report to tamp down questions over the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal, the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[761,833,799,940,863,862],"class_list":["post-181084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-scandal","tag-schadenfreude","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}