>None of this makes Christie innocent -
Actually, it's still not clear that anyone committed a crime by closing the lanes, but politically, it's a death sentence if it's proven that he knew about it and didn't punish the people who did it immediately.
That's what all the flim-flam has been about.

As Tamar said, crimes may have been committed by his appointees in the attempts to cover it up and those people are the ones that the feds and the dems will pressure to serve up Christie.
Wildstein seems to have caved.
Another close insider took the fifth last week.
Baroni is trying to get the Port Authority to pay his legal fees.
If they don't we might be hearing more from him.