The federal jury took five days to reach a verdict in the scandal that helped sink Christie’s Republican campaign for president. Christie has denied any knowledge of the scheme beforehand or while it was going on and has not been charged. Kelly and Baroni testified they believed the lane closings were part of a legitimate traffic study because, they said, that was what Wildstein told them. And Kelly testified that she told Christie the lane-closings were a traffic study when she informed him of the plans about a month ahead of time. And Wildstein told the jury that Christie called him “Mr.

Source: National Post November 04, 2016 16:07 UTC