Hey, NJ and the nation–the feds say you can’t handle the truth about Christie and the bridge
In a few weeks, voters in Iowa and New Hampshire—in contests with portentous consequences for the nation—will be deciding who they want to be president of the United States. One of those candidates could very well be an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal criminal case. His name is Chris Christie and he is the governor of New Jersey, but the feds won’t tell us whether he is on the secret list of co-conspirators .
Paul Fishman, who succeeded Christie as the state’s chief federal prosecutor, seems determined to shield his predecessor from the consequences of involvement in closing down the busiest interstate crossing in the nation for political reasons. Fishman has argued he won’t release the names of co-conspirators because of the “sensitive nature” of the disclosure.
Sensitive? It is difficult to imagine anything more sensitive than the unwitting, possible election to the nation’s highest political office of someone who may have been involved in a federal crime.
In March of 1974, a federal grand jury investigating the break-in at the Watergate building in Washington, DC, named Richard Nixon, then nothing less than the sitting president of the United States, as an unindicted co-conspirator. The republic survived that—as it did subsequent disclosures that Nixon was so deeply involved in Watergate that calling him an unindicted co-conspirator was about the mildest Hey, NJ and the nation–the feds say you can’t handle the truth about Christie and the bridge | Bob Braun's Ledger:
