The woman who wrote the infamous "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" email that launched the so-called Bridgegate revenge schememust serve 13 months in prison, a judge ordered Wednesday.

Bridget Anne Kelly, a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton, who presided over the 2016 trial in which Kelly was found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and civil rights violations. It was the second time Kelly was sentenced in federal court, and came after years of appeals.

Kelly could report to prison in July, but she is appealing her conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to have her conviction overturned.

In brief remarks after the trial, Kelly said that while her legal fate is now in the hands of the nine Supreme Court justices, she will continue her moral fight by telling "the truth" about her former boss, who she said "was powerful enough to approve this act" of closing two lanes to the bridge in Fort Lee. Prosecutors said the lane reductions were done to punish the borough's mayor for not endorsing Christie's re-election.

"Mr. Christie, you are a bully and the days of you calling me a liar and destroying my life are over," Kelly said, reading from prepared remarks. "The truth will be heard — and for the former governor, the truth will be inescapable, regardless of lucrative television deals or even future campaigns. I plan to make sure of that."

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Christie was not charged or found to have had knowledge of the traffic scheme. He did not directly respond to Kelly's comments, but provided a statement reiterating that he did not know of or authorize the lane realignments, and "anything said to the contrary is simply untrue."

But Wigenton made it clear at sentencing that no matter how Kelly was described — as a "functionary" by Christie in his book or as a high-ranking official by prosecutors — she was convicted of crimes that warrant prison time.

"People spent hours, for days, trying to get to work, kids trying to get to school, all because of this," Wigenton said. Then, playing off the subtitle of Christie's book, "Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics," Wigenton said, "I guess that’s the power of in-your-face politics. It wasn’t acceptable then. It isn’t acceptable today."

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An appeals court threw out the civil rights violations against Kelly and her co-defendant, Bill Baroni, last November. Kelly had originally been sentenced by Wigenton to 18 months, but after the appellate ruling she cut five months off the sentence Wednesday.

Baroni gave up his appeals and reported to prison this month. The former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was accused of working with Kelly and David Wildstein, then a top agency official, to realign traffic at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 as political payback against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich.

It was Kelly who wrote the "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" email that prosecutors said set the revenge plot in motion. But she and Baroni said during the 2016 trial that they were duped by Wildstein, who pleaded guilty and is currently writing about New Jersey politics while serving probation.

Michael Critchley, an attorney for Kelly, invoked Wildstein's name several times during the re-sentencing, lumping him into a group he referred to as the "Boys of Bridgegate." Those men, who included Christie, were able to walk away from the scandal with light or no punishment.

Critchley referred to Wildstein's returning to running a website about New Jersey politics, which he did before he was hired at the Port Authority, as a reason why Kelly should be treated with leniency.

"The fate of David Wildstein turned out fine. He’s living large," Critchley said. Later, he added, "When you compare Bridget Kelly with the Boys of Bridgegate, the disparities are still great."

In his recently published book, Christie showed some sympathy for Baroni and Kelly. He reserved much of his anger for Wildstein, with whom he grew up in Livingston and who was hired by Baroni to reform the Port Authority "in accordance with the governor's goals," Christie's office said at the time.

At a forum with two other former governors last week, Christie said the scandal was the biggest regret of his tenure and that it is still "stunning" to him that it happened.

"I don't believe for a minute the story that was sold at the trial. And I don't think we'll ever know the real story unless Bill and Bridget decide to tell us or David Wildstein has a brain transplant, and obviously he gets a brain that can actually tell the truth," Christie said.

Wildstein did not respond to a message Tuesday night seeking a response to Christie's comments.