GWB scandal: Newly uncensored messages under review by NJ lawmakers

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http://www.northjersey.com/news/Lawmakers_in_GWB_lane_closure_probe_reviewing_newly_uncensored_messages.html

The legislative panel investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closures now possesses un-redacted documents from a key witness, and lawmakers are working to make those once-secret details part of their public records.

Those documents come from David Wildstein, a former executive appointed by Governor Christie to the Port Authority, who carried out the lane closures that tied up traffic in Fort Lee for four days in September. In documents he originally provided to lawmakers, Wildstein included a series of text messages sent during and after the closures. But he had blacked out portions of those messages, hiding the identities of his partners in some of those conversations.

Some of those partial text messages were the focus this past weekend of an MSNBC report that Wildstein had toured the traffic with a Port Authority police officer who grew up with Christie, Lt. Thomas “Chip” Michaels.

The governor’s office denied that Christie received any information about the lane closures from Michaels, or Michaels’ brother Jeff, a lobbyist.


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