Bloomberg Law
Sept. 26, 2016, 4:45 PM UTC

Christie’s ‘Enforcer’ Takes Credit for Bridgegate Plot

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By David Voreacos and David Kocieniewski, Bloomberg News

A former employee at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and Governor Chris Christie’s “enforcer” said a politically motivated closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in 2013 was his idea.

David Wildstein testified Monday that he was first to see that the lane closures would be a “leverage point” to pressure Mark Sokolich, Fort Lee, New Jersey’s, Democratic Mayor, into supporting Christie’s re-election bid that year.

Wildstein, the government’s star witness at the trial of two Christie allies, said the idea first came to him during a ...

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