One of the great things about the internet is that pixels are cheap.

Therefore it's no big deal for me to run the brief against Chris Christie for his role in Bridgegate in its entirety.

So at least someone will read it - even if the Bergen County prosecutor won't.

On Thursday morning in Bergen County, Judge Roy McGeady will be announcing his decision on whether the governor will be issued a summons on a charge of misconduct in office.

The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office announced that it would throw out the complaint even before it was written by the complainant, former Teaneck firefighter Bill Brennan.

How can they do that?

This is Jersey.

That's how.

Every prosecutor in the state is in a direct line of authority going up to the governor, who appoints both the state Attorney General and the county prosecutors.

There's not even a pretense of neutrality.

So unless a special prosecutor is named, this case looks like it's dead on arrival regardless of what McGeady does.

But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about who did what to whom during those crucial five days in September 2013 when traffic in Fort Lee was brought to a standstill to punish the Democratic mayor for failing to endorse the re-election effort of the Republican governor.

Decide for yourself if you think this investigation should be pursued.

Here is the brief in full. The printed version is 18 pages long, so it will take a while to read it.

Unless you've been following Bridgegate closely, as I have, you might find this to be slow going. I've connected to some of my columns on the subject to make it a bit easier.

But of course the prosecutor should be expected to be familiar with all of this.

Well, he would be if he read the brief.

There are some misspellings and typos in it, but this is how it was presented verbatim.

For the reader's convenience I've put all of the complainant's arguments in bold to distinguish them from the citations used as evidence. Also if you want to look up the names of the various players, here's the Wikipedia page.

I, William Brennan, hereby certify that on September 27, 2016, David Wildstein did appear as a witness for the prosecution in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey - Criminal Action 2:15-cr-193-SDW. The US Attorney elicited the following sworn testimony from David Wildstein:

Q Did there come a time when you discussed Governor Christie and the lane reductions with Mr. Baroni on September 10th?

A Yes.

Q What did you discuss?

A Mr. Baroni and I were going to see Governor Christie the next morning and Mr. Baroni and I discussed talking about the lane closures with Governor Christie.

Q Why?

A Because -- well, one, Miss Kelly had previously said to me: The Governor is going to love this.

Q Referring to the lane reductions?

A Referring to the planning of the lane deductions -- reductions. Miss Kelly had specifically said to me and I remember the quote: The Governor is going to love this.

Q And had you told that to Mr. Baroni?

A Yes, I had.

Q So what was the discussion with Mr. Baroni about that?

A So with the knowledge that Mr. Baroni and I were pleasing Governor Christie, Mr. Baroni intended to -- told me that he had intended to talk to Governor Christie about the effects of the lane closures and Mayor Sokolich's reaction with the Governor on September 11th.

Q And you as well?

A Yes, sir, I was going to be there as well.

Q And what was the purpose of bringing this up with Governor Christie the next day?

A The purpose was to take a curtain call. The purpose was -- Mr. Baroni and I believed that we were pleasing Governor Christie and we're proud of that and we're looking forward to discussing it with the Governor.

Q And what event were you going to see Governor Christie?

A At the -- the next day was September 11th, 2013. It was the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terroristic attacks at the World Trade Center.

Q Were you going to see Governor Christie at that event?

A Yes. Yes, I was ......

Q I want to direct your attention now -- and Miss Hardy, you can take that down. I want to direct your attention now to September 11th, 2013. Mr. Wildstein, did the lane reductions continue that day?

A Yes, they did.

Q Was that based on your instruction to Port Authority staff members?

A Yes.

Q Why did you give that direction?

A I gave that direction because Miss Kelly had given me that direction.

Q With whose approval at the Port Authority?

A With Mr. Baroni's approval......

Q Mr. Wildstein, while it was just the three of you in conversation, Governor Christie, Mr. Baroni and yourself, did there come a time when you discussed Fort Lee?

A Yes, there was.

Q Can you please explain the substance of that conversation.

A Mr. Baroni at a time where it was just he, Governor Christie and myself, Mr. Baroni said: You know, Governor, I have to talk to you about something. And this was -- it was in a very sarcastic tone. It was a sarcastic tone that Mr. Baroni had taken in the past. I had seen him take that in the past with Governor Christie.

I had seen Governor Christie take that sort of sarcastic tone with Mr. Baroni as well. Mr. Baroni said to Governor Christie: Governor, I have to tell you, there's a tremendous amount of traffic in Fort Lee this morning. Major traffic jams. And that pleased to know that Mayor Sokolich is very frustrated that he can't get his telephone calls returned, that nobody is answering Mayor Sokolich's questions.

Q How if at all did Governor Christie respond to that?

A He responded by saying: Well, I would imagine that he wouldn't be getting his phone calls returned.

Q Were you discussed in this conversation?

A Yes, I was. Mr. Baroni said to Governor Christie that I was monitoring the traffic, that I was watching over everything.

Q What did Governor Christie say in response to that, if anything?

A Governor Christie said, you know, again in the sarcastic tone of that conversation, he said: Well, I'm sure Mr. Edge would not be involved in anything that's political. He referred to me -- he would refer to me as Mr. Edge, using the pseudonym of the website I had formerly written for. He said: I'm sure Mr. Edge wouldn't do anything political. And he laughed.

Q Did you say anything during this conversation?

A No, Mr. Baroni led that conversation. I mean, I spoke to Governor Christie but during this part, Mr. Baroni was the spokesman.

Q What was Mr. Baroni's demeanor?

A Very relaxed. As was the Governor. We were all very relaxed.

Q Yourself as well?

A Yes, mine as well.

Q Were you and Mr. Baroni bragging?

A Yes. Yes, very much so.

Q Why?

A This was our one constituent. I was pleasing my one constituent and I was proud of it. I was happy that he was happy.

Q From this conversation, were you concerned about continuing the lane reduction?

A No, not at all.

Exhibit A - Wildstein

Based on this unrebutted testimony, I signed a criminal complaint alleging Official Misconduct on the part of Defendant Christie. On October 13, 2016, I appeared before Your Honor and gave testimony in support of probable cause. In addition to my sworn testimony, I presented a true and accurate transcript of Mr. Wildstein's relevant testimony. Upon presentation of this evidence, Your Honor found probable cause against Defendant Christie and the matter was referred to the Bergen County Prosecutor; despite my request that it go directly to a Grand Jury Exhibit B - PC Hearing.

In response to Your Honor's 10/13/16 ruling; the Office of the Governor/Defendant issued a press release that included the following false statement:

The simple fact is the governor had no knowledge of the lane realignments either before they happened or while they were happening.

Brian Murray - spokesman for Defendant Christie 10/13/16

On October 24, 2016 Bridget Kelly testified as witness in her own defense. Not only did Ms. Kelly corroborate Your Honor's probable cause finding - Ms. Kelly refuted the defendant's claim that the defendant lacked any knowledge of the lane closures before or during their occurrence. The following testimony is a true and accurate depiction of the relevant testimony contained in the attached transcripts (Exhibits C-D):

Bridget Kelly - Direct

Q That was a Friday. Now, if we go back to the conversation with the Governor on August 12th. Can you tell us what you said.

A .....And I said: Governor, by the way, I spoke to Wildstein today about, apparently the Port Authority is going to be doing a traffic study in Fort Lee. And I explained the access lanes to him. And he said: Okay. He said. When are they doing this? I said: I believe imminently. I believe Wildstein said he's working with everyone. He did say there's going to be tremendous traffic problems in Fort Lee. And he said: Alright. You know, that's -- he really didn't react. He said: That's fine. He said: What -- how is our relationship with Mayor Sokolich? And I didn't know. I really didn't know. There's 524 mayors, I just didn't know

Q When you tell the Governor on August 12 about the Fort Lee lanes and what David Wildstein told you, what next occurred?

A Well, the reason why I even remembered to speak to the Governor was David's email, the extraordinarily weird beyond -- beyond my circumstances.

Q Then he says: "I have an issue to discuss with you. Extraordinarily weird, even by my standards". Okay. Now, this is the email you're talking about that prompted your discussion with Governor Christie?

A Yes.

Q Did you have a conversation with David Wildstein on August 12th about this extraordinarily weird event?

A I did.

Q Tell us about that.

A After I got this David and I spoke on the phone and he explained to me that they were ready to do this traffic study, that he had gotten the approvals he needed. He talked to Stepien, he was ready to do it. But he thought and believed and he wanted to make sure I ran this by the Governor.

And at the time I had even forgotten about the study, so I knew I could talk to him about the two things. He said what he'd like to do at the end of the study, prior to Election Day, he would like to taut the results of the study. He wanted to have an event where the Governor could stand possibly with Governor Cuomo at the foot of the bridge and say: Look at what we did. Now all these commuters are moving faster across the bridge during their commuting time. I thought it was a little crazy. He wanted signs, he wanted banners, huge event.

Q What do you mean he wanted signs and banner?

A I think like those orange stands you see them when you're driving sometimes, like when there's construction and things, and advises of things. He's like: Thanks, Governor Christie. It was a little crazy, but it was, I figured, okay. This is what he wants to do, to taut the success of what he believed 14 was going to be a very successful study.

Q Okay. Now, after that discussion, or was it before, I don't know, when did you have the discussion with the Governor?

A On the 12th.

Q Was it after this email?

A Yes. Yes.

Q And when you told the Governor what you told him, what was the Governor's response?

A You know, part it was -- one of the things David explained to me too was that they only set up cones to segregate the lanes and he said there were issues with sideswiping, I think he called it.

So he said there was truly some safety issues with regard to what was going on with the cones. And that was part of the other reason why the Port Authority wanted to look at this. So I explained all of this to the Governor. Governor said: That's fine. And he asked -- he's like: I'm okay with it. Make sure you run it by O'Dowd. And he asked about Mayor Sokolich, and I was kind of embarrassed, I didn't know. And he then said to me: If our schedules work tomorrow, let's grab lunch.

Q That would be August 13th?

A Yes.

Q Now, I'm going to come back to something. Now, you told the Governor about the lane study on August 12th.

A Correct.

Q Did he acknowledge to you what he heard?

A He did in the sense that he asked about Sokolich. And, you know, he -- I really saw it as I was giving him an FYI. And if he was not okay with it, he would have said: No, that's a bad idea.

Q Why did you want to tell the Governor about the lane study?

A For a number of reasons. David asked me to. And it was something that I knew tied to it was this potential event. So I knew it would be something that the Governor, he would, you know, be a little bit more interested in. But it was going to cause these traffic problems in Fort Lee and around the area, and I thought he should be aware......

Q ....When you shut the phone conversation with Wildstein and the Governor walks in, is that when you have the conversation with the Governor about the events at 9/11 and this conversation with David Wildstein?

A Yes. ...

Q Yeah, I know. The 9/11 phone call. You have it? Now, there's a phone conversation on September 11th at 11:51 a.m. from Wildstein to you. Now, September 11th was obviously a very -- that's the day of the memorial; correct?

A Yes, it is.

Q Do you recall what that conversation was about?

A I do.

Q Tell me what it was about?

A David called me at 11:51. I was in my office. And he called to talk about the Newark path event. And we were still at that point it hadn't been decided whether or not it was going to be cancelled. So he was asking me if I had heard anything. I had to cut him off because the Governor was walking into my office and it was just part of the protocol that I would not be on the phone with anyone when the Governor walked through my office.

Q So that was a phone call for about a minute and 21 thirty-seven seconds?

A Yes.

Q And what in effect did the Governor say?

A The Governor just stated that the Port Authority was doing the traffic study in Fort Lee. He said that there was residual traffic in the town but it seemed to be moving along. And I at that time said to him that the Mayor had reached out and did you want us to follow up? And he said: No, let Wildstein handle it.

Q Can you please pull up Government Exhibit 377. Now, is this the email you received?

A It is.

Q And this basically is -- what's your understanding of what this email is about?

A This was an email that indicates that Evan Ridley received a phone call from the Mayor of Fort Lee, Mayor Sokolich, and it expresses in the email it's basically a summary of Evan's conversation with the Mayor.

Q And is there a reference to retribution in that email?

A I believe -- yes. In the third paragraph the second line it says: There is a feeling in town that this is Government retribution for something.

Q Now, the email from Heather Haddon to Colin Reed and Michael Drewniak, subject: Toll booth closures. Hey, we are following up on this. And obviously that's a news article they're referring to and says: There's a lot of confusion and scuttlebutt about why these booths were closed.

It's unclear if it was for a traffic study or not. Was the Governor made aware of the closures? Any comment on them? It caused a lot of traffic backup in Fort Lee and local officials said they weren't aware of it beforehand. Was the State? And then he, meaning Michael Drewniak, at 4:03, sends you an email saying: Coming to chat. And then you respond at 21 five minutes later, 4:08: Come soon. Have to go get my kids. 22 Now, do you recall if Mr. Drewniak came to see that you day?

A He did.

Q And tell us what happened.

A He (Drewniak) came to my office and, you know, kind of stood in the doorway. I was packing up and said -- he asked if I had seen the email. I saw the email. And he asked me: Did the Governor know? And I said: Yes, Mike. I said: The Governor knew about the study. I talked to him and Kevin O'Dowd prior to. I said: I spoke to the Governor about it on September 11th, and again on September 12th. And he just said that, you know, he had talked to Wildstein and Wildstein told him it was a traffic study, and that they had issued -- he had talked to Wildstein the week before about the statement. That was really -- it wasn't a huge conversation, but his first question was whether or not the Governor knew.

Bridget Kelly-Cross

Q When you shut the phone conversation with Wildstein and the Governor walks in, is that when you have the conversation with the Governor about the events at 9/11 and this conversation with David Wildstein?

A Yes.

Q And, again, just to refresh your recollection, who was with the Governor?

A Michele Brown and his assistant Dan Robbles.

Q And what in effect did the Governor say?

A The Governor just stated that the Port Authority was doing the traffic study in Fort Lee. He said that there was residual traffic in the town but it seemed to be moving along. And I at that time said to him that the Mayor had reached out and did you want us to follow up? And he said: No, let Wildstein handle it.

A mere eleven days after this Court found probable cause, Bridget Kelly confirmed every aspect of the testimony Your Honor relied upon to make that finding. Additionally, the Kelly testimony indicates that Defendant Christie made specific inquiry as to the relationship with Mayor Sokolich and then authorized the "traffic study" he claims to have known nothing about. Ms. Kelly's testimony went even further by refuting the defendant's repeated claims that he (Christie) had no knowledge of the lane closures before or during their occurrance.

To date five witnesses have testified that the defendant is lying about what he knew and when he knew it. Moreover, the defendant has contradicted himself in public statements regarding the crime and "traffic study" cover story. Specifically, on December 02, 2016 (NOTE: THIS SHOULD BE 2013) the defendant held a press conference wherein Defendant Christie was quoted as follows:

I didn't even know Fort Lee had three dedicated lanes until all this stuff happened, and I think we should review that entire policy. Because I don't know why Fort Lee needs three dedicated lanes to tell you the truth and I never knew it until this whole happening came about.

"My urging to the Port Authority would be to review that whole policy. I sat in that traffic, before I was governor, at the George Washington Bridge. And the fact that one town has three lanes dedicated to it? That kind of gets me sauced.

"But I do believe, and I told Chairman Samson this, that we should look at this. One lane maybe. Three lanes? I don't quite get it. I read something in one of the stories that this was host community relations. I mean what's gonna happen if they get a little bit upset? Are they gonna move the bridge?

Defendant Christie 12/02/13

At this 12/02/13 press conference the defendant was "sauced" to learn that Fort Lee had three "dedicated" lanes and had asked Port Authority Chairman David Samson to look into it. In other words he was trying to sell a cover story related to criminal abuse of authority. At a press conference held on March 27, 2014, Defendant Christie admitted that he had previously used those local access lanes and claimed that he misspoke.

As to the Fort Lee lanes being dedicated to Fort Lee residents I don't think I never said they were just dedicated to Fort Lee residents I think what I said they were dedicated to Fort Lee. I, I, I understand that there are people who get off the highway and drive through the neighborhoods to get the easier route onto the GWB. You know, maybe even once or twice I may have done that in previous life ok so I understand that. I never said, if I did I misspoke David, that they were dedicated to Fort Lee residents.

Defendant Christie March 27, 2014

On October 20, 2016, Defendant Christie's friend and chief political strategist Michael Duhaime testified that Christie had made false public statements related to a criminal investigation in his capacity as Governor of the State of New Jersey:

But on December 13th, 2013, you did have conversations with him on the phone; correct?

A Yes.

Q And on December 13th, 2013, had you conversations with David Wildstein on the phone?

A Yes, sir.

Q And Chris Christie on the phone?

A Yes, sir.

Q And Bill Stepien?

A Yes.

Q Now, on December 13th, early morning, before the press conference that Governor Christie had, did you have a phone conversation with Bill Stepien?

A I believe -- yes, I did. Yes, I did.

Q And did Bill Stepien ask you to do something?

A Yes.

Q What did Bill Stepien ask you to do?

A He asked if David Wildstein was sure that Bridget Kelly was aware before the traffic study.

Q And did he ask you anything else?

A He asked if I could find out.

Q And what did you do?

A I called Mr. Wildstein.

Q And what did you ask him?

A I asked him -- I asked him if he was certain, a hundred percent certain that Ms. Kelly knew about that. And I asked if, you know, "are you sure", "are you a hundred percent sure". Yes, that's what I asked him.

Q And did you ask him anything else?

A I asked if he -- I asked if he was certain.

Q Okay. And he said?

A He said yes, he was certain, and there were text message, or text message or emails to prove it.

Q He said there are emails?

A Emails, I believe, yes.

Q Okay. And did he tell you anything about the emails?

A No.

Q What did he tell you about the emails, if anything?

A Just that they existed.

Q What were the emails that existed?

A Just that would corroborate what he was telling me to be true.

Q And tell me what he was telling you to be true.

A That Bridget was aware before the lane closures.

Q And this information was given to you before the Governor's press conference?

A Correct.

Q Do you know approximately what time in the morning you received this information from David Wildstein?

A I don't. It was early morning, maybe 9 a.m. I don't recall the exact time, but in the morning.

Q And you communicated this information about emails to Bill Stepien?

A Yes.

Q And at this time Bill Stepien was not talking to David Wildstein; correct?

A I believe that to be true.....

Q And then you speak with Wildstein at 9:43 a.m. for about three minutes and 12 seconds. Correct?

A Yes, it looks that way.

Q Was this the time you asked him about the emails?

A I believe so.

Q And then after you talk to him at 9:47, you speak with him 9 again at 10:47 a.m. Do you recall what that conversation was about?

A My recollection, being this is 34 months ago, I recollect 12 those calls in sum, but I don't remember individually each 13 call. But I remember in substance it was as I've just relayed to you.

Q Were you talking about emails then also?

A In one of these conversations.

Q Now, you speak with Stepien at 10:55 a.m. Correct?

A Yes.

Q Do you recall what this conversation was about?

A This is likely where I relayed to him that information.

Q What information?

A The information that Mr. Wildstein was certain and that he had -- and he had emails to prove it.

Q And at -- and after speaking with Mr. Stepien at 10:55, 25 approximately three minutes later at 10:58, you attempt to reach Wildstein again. Correct?

A It looks that way.

Q Why did you attempt to reach Wildstein a second time?

A I don't recall.

Q Did Bill Stepien ask you to confirm -- to call him back again?

A He did, yes.

Q Is this why you called him back again?

A Likely.

Q And then at 11 o'clock you called Wildstein another time. Correct?

A Correct....

Q And then at 11:07 a.m., you speak to Governor Christie for five minutes.

A Yes, sir.

Q Okay. Now, you had already spoken to Governor Christie earlier that morning for 15 minutes. Correct?

A Correct.

Q And now you're speaking again at 11:07 a.m. with Governor Christie.

A Yes, sir.

Q And the press conference begins around 11:21 in the morning. Correct?

A I know it was in that hour, yes.

Q Did you tell Governor Christie about your conversations with Wildstein that morning in connection with emails?

A I don't know that I specifically went to the emails. I reiterated, as I had in the previous days, that I was told -- relaying information that Bridget and Stepien were aware beforehand.

Q Did you tell him that in the earlier morning call at 7:32?

A I said it during the course of these three days. In which calls, I can't recall specifically, but I did relay that.

Q So before the Governor gives the press conference at 11:07, you told him that Bridget Kelly had information about the lane closures beforehand?

A At some point during those days, yes. I cannot tell you if it was specifically in this conversation but at some point in those three days, yes.

Q Now -- I understand those days. But now this is 13 minutes before he's going out and giving a press conference, and you had just talked to Wildstein and he told you about emails.

A I received no -- to me, there was not new information. I passed it along.

Q I'm sorry?

A I passed along the information I knew.

Q But you're speaking to the Governor?

A Yes, I am.

Q And he's about to have a press conference on Fort Lee Correct?

A Yes.

Q You call him up and say: Governor, guess what, I have information that what you said is wrong?

A He knew I had information different from the information he gave.

Q He already knew it?

A I testified that I told him that information in the 3 previous days....

Q I know that. But he knew that before the December 13th press conference?

A Yes....

Q Well, you know he gave a press conference. And you know he made a statement that seemed to be, at least, inconsistent with the information you gave him?

A That's correct.

Exhibit E - Duhaime

According to Duhaime, Defendant Christie used his office to make false statements related to an open criminal investigation. 104 days elapsed between the day Duhaime testified in open court (that Defendant Christie used the Office of Governor to issue false statements related to a criminal investigation) and the time the defendant felt compelled to address this allegation of criminal misconduct.

With the spector of a probable cause hearing looming, Defendant Christie finally addressed another of his festering wounds.

I knew about it starting in October after it was reported in the Wall Street Journal, so Mike Duhaime calling me on December 12th and saying to me "they knew about a traffic study too" What was that telling me that they read the newspaper also? - I knew about a traffic study in December. You guys were so careless and continue to be through your questions about what it means, everyone knew by December 12 and 13th that there had been a traffic study. The question and go back to the transcript that Angela Delasanti asked was which is why I gave the response I gave was did anyone, I mean was anyone on your senior staff involved in this traffic study as an act of retaliation against Mayor Sokolich? And the answer was "I asked all of them and they all said no".

And by the way with the exception of David Wildstein's testimony no one has testified that it was an act of retaliation. Now the jury believed Mr. Wildstein's story and convicted Mr. Baroni and Miss Kelly and you know that's the way the jury decided. Now, I can tell you most of what Mr. Baroni said on the stand and almost all of what Miss Kelly said was a lie

Defendant Christie - January 31, 2017

Defendant Christie utterred his false statement on 12/13/13 and did not "clarify" what he really meant until less than 48 hours before the probable cause hearing over which Your Honor is set to preside (three years after the fact). According to testimony given by the Honorable Debra Gramiciani she was the first person to alert the defendant that Bridget Kelly had emails related to the "traffic study". The Gramiciani testimony corroborates Duhaime's testimony that Christie lied about Bridget Kelly's involvement. It goes a step further and renders the defendant's "clarification" implausible. Gramiciani testified that the defendant was "visibly upset" to learn that Bridget Kelly had email involving this "traffic study".

Q When you went to see the Governor the night before, December 12th, he appeared to be visibly upset when you told him Bridget Kelly knew?

A He appeared to be visibly upset.

Q What was he -- when you said he was visibly upset, was he crying?

A He was not crying. He looked visibly upset. The way somebody looks physically when they clench -- you know -- he was visibly upset. He looked like there was tension.

Q Tell me what his appearance was. He's visibly upset, tell me what he did -- how was he visibly upset?

A We were sitting across from each other so I had an opportunity to observe his appearance. He seemed very -- he seemed filled with tension the way sometimes people are when they seem upset. He didn't vocalize it but he seemed upset in his body language.

Q And you don't know why he was upset?

A It was right after I told him that I had heard the hum.

Exhibit F - Gramaciani

Defendant Christie was agitated by "the hum" within his office that Bridget Kelly had email related to the "traffic study" cover story. He was told by 2 close advisors that Kelly was involved before falsely claiming that no one on his staff was involved.

On January 09, 2014 Defendant Christie said the following about Bridget Kelly:

This morning I've terminated the employment of Bridget Kelly, effective immediately. I've terminated her employment because she lied to me. I brought my senior staff together I think about four weeks ago tomorrow. And I put to all of them one simple challenge: If there is any information that you know about the decision to close these lanes in Fort Lee, you have one hour to tell either my chief of staff, Kevin O'Dowd, or my chief counsel, Charlie McKenna.

And I told them that in an hour I was going to go out in a press conference. And if no one gave me other information to the contrary that I was going to say that no one on my staff was involved in this matter.

Over the course of the next hour, Kevin and Charlie interviewed each member of my senior staff, came back and reported to me that they all reported that there was no information other than what we already knew that had been testified to by Senator Baroni regarding this incident. Defendant Christie 01/01/14

Debra Gramiciani and Mike Duhime each told the defendant that Bridget Kelly had email related to the cover up as early as 12/12/13. Three weeks later that email surfaced in the Bergen Record and the defendant claimed to have been "blindsided"

Well, let me tell you, everybody, I was blindsided yesterday morning. I was done with my workout yesterday morning and got a call from my communications director at about 8:50, 8:55, informing me of this story that had just broken on the Bergen Record website. That was the first time I knew about this. That was the first time I had seen any of the documents that were revealed yesterday.

Defendant Christie 01/01/14

More than three years later, (January 31, 2017) the defendant proclaimed that he answered the way he did on 12/12/13 purportedly because:

"What was that telling me? That they read the newspaper also? -

I knew about a traffic study in December"

Defendant Christie 01/31/17

If the defendant's 01/31/2017 statement was true, then hearing from Ms. Gramiciani that Bridget Kelly had email regarding a traffic study would not cause him to become "visibly upset, like their was tension, clenched." The only explanation for such a reaction would be that Defendant Christie knew the traffic study story was false and was engaged in a cover up of that crime. Defendant Christie himself nominated Judge Gramiciani to a judgeship, if Judge Gramiciani gave false testimony then she was unfit for appointment to the bench. If Judge Gramiciani testified truthfully then Mr. Duhaime was not "mistaken" when he testified that Christie used the Office of Governor to make false statements related to a criminal inquiry.

Defendant Christie did say something accurate on Tuesday January 31, 2017:

"Now the jury believed Mr. Wildstein's story and convicted Mr. Baroni and Miss Kelly and you know that's the way the jury decided"

On November 04, 2016 the Jury in USA v Baroni et al found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendants Baroni and Kelly were guilty of nine separate federal crimes (Exhibit G - Verdict). Those convictions were based almost entirely on the testimony of David Wildstein. I present Wildstein's testimony along with corroborating testimony from Bridget Kelly. These witnesses who testified under penalty of perjury carry greater evidentiary weight than the unsworn argument of counsel for the defense or blatant self serving press statements from the defendant.

I swear that the foregoing statements made by me are true and that if any of the foregoing statements made by me are willfully false I am subject to punishment.

_____________________

William J. Brennan

Dated: February 1, 2017