>>>The plot thickens nicely.
>>>This one has Watergate written all over it for our rotund leader.
>>>
>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp&_r=0
>>>
>>>It's too bad because he's a pretty good governor.
>>>
>>>Way back when Cornelius Ryan called it "A Bridge Too Far."
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>>It all depends on how quickly (and thoroughly) he can throw his aides under a bus (assuming the bus is not stalled in a traffic jam).
>
>He would need to be VERY thorough i.e. prove that Kelly was a rogue employee, hopefully with a history of similar acts.
>
>If not, it means his office has a culture that not only contemplates abuse of power, but acts on it. The buck stops with him.

It was not only one rogue named Bridget Kelly.

Bill Baroni, Christie's hand-picked appointee at the Port Authority (at $293K/yr - not exactly a low-level person) ordered the infamous traffic study. A local boy from here in Hamilton and long-time friend and enforcer of Christie's, Baroni has been subpoenaed and might face serious charges.

It seems that people in Fort Lee might have died because EMT help was snarled in traffic and did not arrive in time.

Another appointee at a no-show $80K/yr job who was Christie's high school buddy, David Wildstein, was also in on the blockage and has pleaded the 5th, but he faces more questions and is far from out of the woods.

Christie's two-time campaign manager and closest political advisor, Bill Stepien, who had just been appointed chair of the NJ state republican committee and advisor to the national republican governor's conference, was on the receiving end of some of the emails and has quietly resigned from his positions.

Not exactly one rogue employee, was it?

So let's see.... Kelly, Baroni, Wildstein and Stepien - all very close to Christie- knew about this but Christie didn't.

As they say in Jersey City..

Yeah... right.