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The Bridgeghazi scandal got its very own Friday news dump when the New Jersey state legislature released about 1,000 documents, apparently pertaining to the Chris Christie administration's involvement in the sudden September closure of traffic lanes in Fort Lee. And it looks like those documents might actually contain something interesting:

Source: New bridge docs refer 2 meeting b/w Christie & Dave Samson, his Port Authority appointee, days before "time for some traffic" email. — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) January 10, 2014

Sampson is the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He is a Christie appointee.

This could be important, Lizza notes, because Christie appointee David Wildstein mentioned in previous documents that Samson was "helping us to retaliate" against New York officials . Wildstein, who enacted the lane closures, and another Christie appointee to the New Jersey arm of the Port Authority has since resigned. Christie's deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly was fired after it was revealed that she emailed "time for traffic problems in Fort Lee" to Wildstein shortly before the traffic jam. Christie, of course, has adamantly denied any involvement or knowledge of the exchange until recently. A meeting is hardly a smoking gun, but it could complicate his denials. New Jersey Assembly Deputy Speaker Wisniewski released a statement on the documents submitted to the Assembly Transportation Committee (which he chairs):

Included in these documents is a reference to what appears to be a meeting between Port Authority Chairman David Samson and the governor one week before Bridget Kelly issued the order to cause 'traffic problems' in Fort Lee. By submitting these documents, Mr. Wildstein is telling us they are related to the lane closures in some way. The question that demands answering is how?

The emails were posted to the New Jersey legislature's site, which seems to be having some trouble handling the increased traffic — based on the Twitter feeds of some frustrated reporters, the Wire isn't the only outlet experiencing difficulty accessing the PDFs.