who s charlie? could be anyone. could be charlie brown. could be charlie sheen. could be that charlie tuna character from the old ads. could be charlie anybody. may very well be charlie mckenna, who is governor chris christie s chief counsel, who is also suspected today. after bill baroni delivered false testimony to the legislature, making up a story about a traffic story, a traffic study, a traffic study that could only have been intended to cover up what they re really doing, quote, charlie says you did great, great in all caps. the investigation is to find out about abuse of government power and efforts to conceal abuse of government power. everyone known to be involved in the shutdown, and now the governor s re-election campaign, as an entity, have been asked to turn over documents on that, as has the governor s office itself. one question is, is the cover-up worse than the crime? does the way that this goes into all these other entities, does it follow the chain of people who kne
told the legislature that untrue thing, he knew when he said it it wasn t true. bill baroni has been notified the first day of the shutdown that ft. lee police and medical responders were already having difficulty responding to emergencies because of the traffic. that e-mail was sent to bill baroni, so he knew. we also know mr. baroni was sent a letter from the mayor of ft. lee on thursday of the shutdown, telling him, quote, our emergency service vehicles are experiencing tremendous response time delays. we also know mr. baroni received phone messages about emergency public safety matters, messages to which bill baroni did not respond, even though we know he got them. so when bill baroni testified to the legislature that day in late november, and he said, the port authority took care of it, the port authority, at all times, we were monitoring the situation, to make sure no emergency vehicles were having any trouble, we stood ready to change any traffic patterns as need be, if emergenc
reiterating, in a less offhand way, spelling it out in no uncertain terms, that his client is willing to talk. he will talk. he will tell what he knows, in exchange for immunity. mr. wildstein s lawyer telling the ap today, quote, if he has immunity from the relevant entities, he ll talk. that s just exactly the way they say it in the movies. he ll talk. this is not a simple matter, though. no one entity, i think, can give david wildstein all the immunity he s going to need, given all the different investigations that are underway or that might start. but it does show that people who pretty definitely know what happened in this scandal, and who probably know everybody who was in on it. well the guy that knows the most damning things is showing himself willing to talk for the right price. his decision to make a deal, if he can, is not an inevitable thing.
help that out, because they recognized an emergency was happening. that didn t happen. we also know that when bill baroni told the legislature that that happened, when bill baroni told the legislature that untrue thing, he knew when he said it it wasn t true. bill baroni has been notified the first day of the shutdown that ft. lee police and medical responders were already having difficulty responding to emergencies because of the traffic. that e-mail was send to bill baroni, so he knew. we also know mr. baroni was sent a letter from the mayor of ft. lee on thursday of the shutdown, telling him, quote, our emergency service vehicles are suffering tremendous response time delays. we also know mr. baroni received phone messages about emergency public safety matters, messages to which bill baroni did not respond, even though we know he got them. so when bill baroni testified to the legislature that day in late november, and he said, the port authority took care of it, the port authority,
christie s chief counsel, who is also subpoenaed today. after bill baroni delivered false testimony to the legislature, making up a story about a traffic story, a traffic study, a traffic study that could only have been intended to cover up what they re really doing, quote, charlie says you did great, great in all caps. the investigation is to find out about abuse of government power and efforts to conceal abuse of government power. everyone known to be involved in the shutdown, and now the governor s re-election campaign, as an entity, have been asked to turn over documents on that, as has the governor s office itself. one question is, is the cover-up worse than the crime? does the way that this goes into all these other entities, does it follow the chain of people who knew that the cover-up, the whole traffic study bunk, was nuts and who took some part in cooking up that story and applauding it once it s delivered. is that the way that this rises?