Witness Says Christie Aide Asked Her to Delete Email About Lane Closings

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Source: New York Times

Witness Says Christie Aide Asked Her to Delete Email About Lane Closings

By KATE ZERNIKE OCT. 6, 2016

NEWARK — As the scandal over the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge mushroomed in December 2013, Bridget Anne Kelly called a co-worker one evening in a panic.

“You know, Christina, if someone tells me something is O.K., who am I to question it?” she asked.

Then, according to testimony in United States District Court here from the co-worker, Christina Renna, Ms. Kelly asked her to delete an email that had been written three months earlier, when the lane closings were causing a catastrophic traffic jam in Fort Lee, N.J. Prosecutors say the closings were planned by Ms. Kelly and two other senior aides to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey as a punishment of the town’s mayor after he declined to endorse Mr. Christie for re-election.

The email that September day documented a call from the mayor to a young staff member in the governor’s office, in which the mayor complained about safety hazards from the shutdowns and said he suspected that they were “government retribution.”

Ms. Kelly, a deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, had received the email from Ms. Renna and replied, “Good.”

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/nyregion/ex-christie-staff-member-says-she-was-asked-to-delete-email-about-lane-closings.html

[Thinkingabout]

1. Christie is in this up to his eye balls.

[imanamerican63]

4. That is a long way up to his eye balls, no matter which way you go?

[gopiscrap]

2. Christie needs to be wearing orange

[Laxman]

3. Ms. Renna's Accomplishments Include....

the following entries from the Christie Crime Digest. She was rewarded with a cushy private sector job to get her out of the way. She takes back her testimony that "Christie Lied" as she stated in her text but that's only because to go into court and admit she knew he lied AND she deleted the texts would be tantamount to a confession to obstruction of justice. She's quite a person Ms. Renna. Has the morals of an alley cat as they say. Her only job options should include the ability to say "please pull around to the second window" but in Christie World she gets a high paying position.

24. Christie administration staffer resigns amid lane closures probe. Christine Renna says good-bye to her gig at the Governor's Office. A nice follow up article here: Resigned Christie staffer is married to Pinelands pipeline company exec: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/resigned_christie_staffer_is_married_to_pinelands_pipeline_company_executive.html I'm sure they never talked about it at home-and if you believe that I've got a bridge to sell....oh, that may not be the best saying to use around Christie's people.

121. An update to #24-but deserving of an entry of its own. Christie aide discussed pipeline with husband, a top exec at firm behind project, emails show : http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/christie_aide_discussed_pipeline_with_husband_a_top_exec_at_firm_behind_project_emails_show.html#incart_story_package Turns out Renna & her hubby did discuss the Pipeline project-VIA OFFICIAL E-MAIL-and the Christie administration tried to hide that fact.

again-for those who like source documents, the Court's decision can be downloaded & read here:https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1310851/judge-jacobsen-ruling-on-opra-on-pinelands.pdf

also: don't lose this link to the memory hole-http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024442535#op that details the sordid connections and money trail from the pipeline's supporters.

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299. Well here's a surprise (not really)-Ex-Christie aide may have destroyed Bridgegate evidence:http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/08/ex-christie_aide_could_face_ag_probe_over_destruct.html We've heard from Ms. Renna before and hopefully we'll hear more from her at the trial.