A jury was selected on Wednesday for next week’s trial of two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie who are charged with deliberately causing traffic gridlock at the George Washington Bridge as part of a political vendetta. Kelly is Christie’s former deputy chief of staff. They argue the actions may have been ethically suspect but weren’t criminal.
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Christie has not been charged in the scandal and the governor told Williams the upcoming trial will confirm his innocence.
Christie also told MSNBC that he has not been offered a role in the Trump administration, but that he would consider it depending on “what I’m offered”.
New Jersey has spent almost $100 billion on those 31 districts since 1985, Christie’s statement said, even as students in the districts “have lower graduation rates, and many of their graduates require costly remedial courses before attending college”. The bridge, one of the busiest in the world, links Fort Lee and New York City.
Christie wants the top court to allow state education officials to waive teacher contract rules that the administration says “serve as impediments to a thorough and efficient education” in the poorer districts.
The government is expected to home in on the communications between Baroni, Kelly and Wildstein in which they appear to alternate between joking about the havoc they created and cavalierly dismissing pleas for assistance from Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich.
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She and Baroni face identical counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, deprivation of civil rights and misusing an organization receiving federal funds.
