Christie Crime Digest Volume III

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138. Didn't Christie just fantasize about beating a woman and then serving her with a subpoena?

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Looks like he'll have to settle for a woman beating him by ruling that the law firm that Christie paid to exonerate him without leaving a paper trail can be subpoenaed for documents that can be potentially hundreds of times more incriminating!

Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton on Friday said attorneys for Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly can subpoena the Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher law firm for what they contend are thousands of pages of relevant documents, particularly communications between people in Christie's office and the bridge's operator during the September 2013 closures...

"The significance of today is that we were permitted to pursue Gibson Dunn," Michael Baldassare, Baroni's attorney, said. "The judge agreed that it was appropriate and important to Mr. Baroni's right to fundamental fairness."

In a ruling in December, Wigenton said Gibson Dunn didn't have to turn over interview notes from its 2014 report but also criticized what she called the firm's "unorthodox" method of overwriting interview notes and drafts in real time, calling it "opacity and gamesmanship." That report is significant because it concluded that Kelly and former Port Authority official David Wildstein, who has pleaded guilty in the case, were behind the closures and not Baroni.

The Mastro report is officially not significant any more, and now we get to find out whether Christie ran his office with incompetence or with corruption. My mother would have called this "trading a witch for the devil!"


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