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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: TomSea on September 21, 2016, 07:29:58 pm
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Sounds like it's worse than last time; but we'll see.
For Christie, 'Bridgegate' once again rears its ambition-killing head
(CNN)For as far as Chris Christie has fallen politically over the last three years, there has always been one saving grace: No evidence existed to directly tie him to the incident that sank his presidential ambitions.
Until, at least according to US prosecutors, now.
It was an unexpected moment during the Monday opening statement by Vikhas Khanna, an assistant US attorney prosecuting two former Christie administration officials now charged with fraud -- the assertion that Christie was aware of the alleged political retribution being carried out by aides. It was one that directly contradicted years of Christie's statements to the contrary, including one as recently as Sunday.
"I have been investigated by three different entities, two of them led by partisan Democrats, who have all found that I had no knowledge of this incident and no involvement in it," the New Jersey governor told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
Read More At: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/politics/chris-christie-bridgegate-new-jersey/index.html
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Christie's done politically anyway after the ass he's made of himself as a servant-boy for Trump. This will keep him out of the AG office were there to be a Trump admin.