Christie Crime Digest-Volume IV

[Laxman]

30. It's A Shame They Have To Break....

for the weekend. This is just some wild stuff. I guess if you're going to have a corruption trial, make it a good one. Wildstein, a man hated by hundreds, maybe thousands. Not there's testimony you don't hear every day.

Bridgegate trial: Port Authority staffer says he tipped off media to lane closures

John Ma said that he contacted the Record’s Road Warrior columnist, John Cichowski, on the fourth day of the crippling lane closures in Fort Lee that September after learning that the agency’s media office was attributing them to a traffic study.
John Ma, chief of staff to the Port Authority’s executive director, outside federal court on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.
Amy newman/staff photographer
Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly outside federal court on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

“I told him, off the record, that to my knowledge there was no traffic study and that the lane closures had been ordered by David Wildstein,” Ma said.

Ma, the chief of staff to the Port Authority’s executive director, Patrick Foye, said: “What I hoped to accomplish was to have the reporter dig further, ask follow up questions.”

Under cross-examination, Ma said that Foye was aware of the call to Cichowski before he made it.

Read the rest here:http://www.northjersey.com/news/bridgegate-trial-port-authority-staffer-says-he-tipped-off-media-to-lane-closures-1.1664734