By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog
We’re about to learn more – or at least confirm – who the government took a long, hard look at in the Bridgegate scandal, Save Jerseyans.
“There is very little that is private about the lane closures or the people allegedly connected to them,” U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton of the District of New Jersey said Tuesday, granting a motion brought by major regional and national news outlets to obtain a list of Bridgegate co-conspirators.
Since the Co-conspirators are largely expected to be a mix of elected and appointed officials, the Court asserted that the public’s interest in the integrity of government outweighed the co-conspirator’s privacy interests.
“Although privacy for third parties is indeed important, this court is satisfied that the privacy interests of third parties are insufficiently compelling to outweigh the public’s right of access,” Wigenton explained.
The upcoming trial of Bill Baroni and co-defendant Bridget Kelly revolves around allegations that the pair, along with co-defendant David Wildstein and the soon-to-be-revealed unindicted co-conspirators, closed lanes to the George Washington Bridge in an act of retaliation against the Mayor of Fort Lee for refusing to back Chris Christie’s 2013 reelection bid.
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