Months in prison. Almost four years. Its been close to four years since the incident on the ft. Lee side of the George Washington bridge that created the bridgegate scandal. Bridgette kelly and bill baroni were convicted in november of wire fraud, conspiracy, and misusing the bridge as retaliation against ft. Lees mayor because he declined to endorse governor christies bid for reelection. Prosecutors said the two shut down several toll lanes at the George Washington bridge in september of 2013 intentionally causing a major traffic jam in ft. Lee. Governor christie was never charged with any wrongdoing. He argued that he was never aware that his office was involved until months after the fact. Federal sentencing guidelines call for 37 to 46 months. The exact sentence is up to the judge. Both boroni and kelly have asked for leniency including Community Service instead jail time. Meantime, governor Chris Christie is in line to lead a President Trump task force. That tops the other stories
Its only 5 30 or so. Route 29. No problems here so a sevenminute trip from route 29 to the schuylkill expres. Well. Great. We were a mess yesterday with the rain in the morning. Noy we end from the blue route headed to expressway. Well end hamilton township. 13po because of the earlier acnt lane. Were seeing a slight closure. Thats around exit 5. Ill happening today, the bridgegate scandal will learn their en baroni and kelley were aides to chris chri. Operations center o repter the sentence is nearly four years in prison, and its been close then the ft. Lee side of the george wainbridgegate scandand bill ba were conspiracy, and misusing the bridge a declined to christies bid for reelection. Prosecutors said the lanes at t bridge intentionally causing a governor christie was never argued aware that his office was involv fact. Sentencing guidelines call for 37 to 46 months. The exact sentence is up to judge. Both baroni and kelly have asked form of probation,re, and Community Service in
Dwip. Looks like we had improvements here on 195 on the westbound side. Earlier, we had a closure around route 130, around exit 5. That closure was in this general area. Thats why you see slowdowns approaching the scene. Looks like at least according to the map system they might have lifted it. Ill check in with that to see either way. Watch for delays on the westbound side. Approaching 5. 95, center city. Cameras around gerard avenue. 14 minutes southbound from woodhaven to the vine street expressway. Sfee speeds into the high 50s. The schuylkill expressway looks good, as well. There is around the eastbound sides, the blue route to the vine. 13 minutes. Speeds into the 60s. Both directions pretty much look the same so far. Here are the top headlines were following today a judge will sentence bill baroni and bridget kelly. A jury found the two former aides to new Jersey Governor Chris Christie guilty in a plot to cause traffic jams near the George Washington bridge. They could face up
Tractortrailer on 80 e oregon. Kerry barrett is in the newsroom with whats happening now. Never ending. Fbi agents surrounding the last four occupiers in the standoff at this oregon wildlife refuge last night. Word is they will surrender later this morning. They agreed to do so as they were escorted by nevada politician michelle fi or and franklin graham, part of the billy graham evangelistic association. The fbi agreed to their terms although the fbi isnt speaking about the negotiation other than to say its been peaceful and no a little bit of background. This standoff has been going on, michael, as you mentioned for 40 days. It started when these armed protesters demanded that two jailed ranchers be freed and that the federal government relinquish several hundred square miles of public land to local control to use it for ranching, mining, logging. The four occupiers that are still left, they were among 16 that were charged last week with conspiracy to impede federal officers in a gra
Trip to south carolina, the next stip step on the road to the white house. The National Discourse may have tarnished his image. I think there was a certain amount of scandal behind him. And i think hes a bit of a bully. Hes fun to watch in debates. But i think that he just doesnt have the substance. Reporter talking politics over eggs at the diner, susan says time has run o for the brash republican governor. But christies style was his strength. I think this whole thing about being politically correct has been over done. And more people like governor christie are what really the country needs to be more honest, without hurting people of course. The bridge gate thing hangs over his head a little bit. But i think new jersey lags a little bit in the economic recovery. It will do him well to concentrate on that. To my twitter followers earlier today about whether they thought christie should pull out of the race. There was an under current about people who felt abandoned by the governor as