Her comments at trial that Christie signed off on the traffic study in August 2013, a month before the closures began, are the latest testimony indicating Christie knew more about the closures than he let on in the months afterward. Wildstein has said the traffic study was just a cover story. Kelly testified that she told Christie that Wildstein told her the traffic study would cause "tremendous traffic problems" in Fort Lee but would ultimately help traffic flow. She testified Christie said the study was fine and she should run it by his then-chief of staff, Kevin O'Dowd. "I don't know whether this was a traffic study that then morphed into a political vendetta or a political vendetta that morphed into a traffic study," Christie said at the time.

Source: Fox News October 21, 2016 23:15 UTC