"Governor’s Office Ignored Report That Kelly, Stepien Knew About Bridgegate"

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Governor’s Office Ignored Report That Kelly, Stepien Knew About Bridgegate

Mark J. Magyar at NJ Spotlight

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/05/14/analysis-governor-s-office-ignored-report-that-kelly-stepien-knew-about-bridgegate/

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Senior Christie administration officials were told last fall that Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly and Campaign Manager Bill Stepien knew in advance about the George Washington Bridge lane closures, but failed to conduct a thorough investigation to root out the truth until after Kelly’s infamous “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email came out over two months later.

Michael Drewniak, Gov. Chris Christie’s press secretary, testified yesterday that he reported the allegations about Kelly and Stepien to Charles McKenna, Christie’s chief counsel, in late October or early November. Drewniak’s testimony confirms that “there was a level of knowledge in the governor’s office” about Bridgegate much earlier than Christie has acknowledged, said Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), who cochairs the Select Committee on Investigation.

Drewniak testified under oath yesterday that David Wildstein, the Port Authority official who directed the lane closures, told him that he had cleared his GWB plan with Kelly and Stepien. When he passed along that information to McKenna, Drewniak added, the second-ranking official in the governor’s office told him he was already “looking into it.”

Yet it was not until four or five weeks later, when Drewniak told Christie and Chief of Staff Kevin O’Dowd on December 5 that Wildstein was adamant that he had told Stepien and Kelly in advance about the lane closures, that Christie and O’Dowd questioned the pair. Christie already had his suspicions, Drewniak said. He recalled the governor saying at the time, “I always wondered if Stepien knew more about this.”



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1. Senior Christie administration officials ignored a report

that implicated -- WAIT FOR IT!!! -- senior Christie administration officials? I wonder why?


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2. Shocking!