BRIDGEGATE TRIAL –Testimony ends in lies, tears, and no certainty of justice.
Testimony in the Bridgegate trial ended Wednesday with lies, tears–and the certainty justice will not be served. Justice won’t be served because not everyone responsible for the prankish but perilous shut-down of the George Washington Bridge three years ago will be held accountable by this and any other forum.
LIES–because both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer ended their questioning of co-defendant Bridge Anne Kelly by leading her through how her testimony disagreed with that of other witnesses–and how those other witnesses disagreed with each other.
Vikas Khanna, the assistant US attorney, ticked off the testimony of seven witnesses–most of them minor players in this drama–and asked her to agree they differed from her own, especially on questions of whether Kelly wanted to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich for failing to endorse Gov. Chris Christie for re-election.
“I’m telling you all of them have a different recollection than mine –but their livelihoods depend on Chris Christie,” she said, fighting back tears.
Then her lawyer, Michael Critchley, took over on redirect and led his client through the last bit of testimony the jury will ever hear in this case.
Critchley mentioned one name–then asked whether Kelly heard that testimony contradict that of a second. Then he listed a third, and a fourth, and, in an almost BRIDGEGATE TRIAL –Testimony ends in lies, tears, and no certainty of justice. |: