he received at least one subpoena from the state legislature which he was due to respond to today unless he got an extension. is bill baroni paying for his own legal representation or is the port authority going to represent him legally or pay his legal bills? the port authority is not paying the legal bills of the other official from that agency who resigned because of this scandal. both bill baroni and david wildstein asked the port authority to pay for their legal representation. the answer to david wildstein was no. and the port authority reportedly has just not answered bill baroni s request yet. it was in david wildstein s letter on friday asking the port authority to reconsider that decision that we got what has turned into basically the next big development in this story. david wildstein s lawyer writes to the port authority, the person counseling mr. baroni for his appearance before the transportation committee was an attorney working under you at the port authority. the coun
hmm. it s one thing for a false story to have been concocted and sold as a cover-up for why those bridge lanes were actually shut down, right? it would be one thing if the two guys who resigned in this scandal could be blamed alone for having cooked up that cover story, themselves, that was supposed to hide what the governor s office, specifically then-deputy chief of staff bridget kelly actually explicitly ordered to happen on that bridge. be one thing if it was those two guys, but if it wasn t just those two guys who cooked it up, if it was a broader more organized effort to cover up what really happened, then this scandal just got bigger by an order of magnitude. what s that they say about it not being the crime, it s the cover-up? that s what david wildstein is implying when he says a port authority lawyer spent four to five days helping prepare bill baroni to give that false testimony and that is what the wall street journal has reported today with this scoop. look at this. chr
e-mail has resigned. she is now the fifth chris christie staffer or appointee or close ally who has resigned or been fired since the bridge lane scandal broke. the first two people to pre-resign, bill baroni and david wildstein. see baroni there. the circle on the left. you see wildstein next to christie. wildstein and baroni both resigned. baroni was governor christie s number two appointee at the port authority. he resigned in december as did david wildstein. david wildstein is a person bill baroni brought with him to the port authority and hired him there with mr. christie s per milgs. permission. here s another angle on them in a different concept. bill baroni on the left. very happy. mr. wildstein in the sunglasses and striped tie talking with governor christie. these two men were the first two christie appointees/allies to resign during the course of this scandal. they were number one and number two. the third person to lose his job in this scandal, bill stepien,
way they re palpably evidently close. and things his social studies teacher and as a teenager to try to cast out, it s not like i don t expect them to two after somebody like david wildstein. i guess i expected them to do it in a way that was less laughable. are they unexpectedly bad at this? i don t understand. they re good at attacking people. this was based mostly on one profile that was written about david wildstein about a year and a half ago. the issue with david wildstein, this is a guy who didn t have anything underneath his picture in his high school yearbook. people have clubs and write quotes. i mean, he had nothing. he was not an anonymous blogger that nobody, even his employees, didn t know who he was for eight years. so this is somebody who there s not a lot of information about. right?
of cryptic letter from the attorney for david wildstein. the port authority official who s at the center of the lane closings. the one who seems to have actually arranged them. the new york times got ahold of this letter in which mr. wildstein s attorney mostly makes the case to a lawyer at the port authority that the port authority should pay mr. wildstein s legal fees. also in this letter mr. wildstein s attorney wrote a strange passive tense sentence that brought front-page headlines across the country. evidence exists as well tieing governor christie to having knowledge of the lane closures during the period when the lanes were closed contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference. that happened on friday and then the weekend, it got even weirder. what happened this weekend that made it, go splash cold water on your face and read the newspaper again bizarre time this weekend was the way that governor christie s office responded privately, pseudo-pr