Witness David Wildstein said the New Jersey and New York governors ‘discussed’ fabricating report to attribute 2013 bridge closures to a traffic studyA onetime top ally of the New Jersey governor,Chris Christie, said the governor and his New York counterpart, and Andrew Cuomo,discussed releasing a deceptive report to tamp down questions over the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal, the prosecution’s key witness testified on Tuesday. David Wildstein, or who pleaded guilty in the gridlock scheme and is cooperating with prosecutors,said the former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman David Samson told him the governors discussed the idea in October 2013. The report would maintain attributed the lane closures to a traffic study, covering up the accurate reason for the closures: political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee for failing to endorse Christie’s 2013 re-election, and Wildstein testified. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com