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Re: Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns 'Bridgegate' Convictions

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Yes, they were convicted of fraud, but the court ruled that technically there was no fraud because the defendants were not in a position to have personally gained anything from their actions, and while what they did might be considered despicable, underhanded and unethical, it couldn't legally be considered fraud. That's why the 9-0 ruling. It's one of those times when you look at something and say, "I can understand why someone would like to think that did something wrong", and they might have, but you can't try them for something else just because the stuff they did do was not technically illegal.




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Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns ‘Bridgegate’ Convictions
By: clo
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Thu, 07 May 20 5:48 PM
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Chris Christie was a disgrace, he incited this behavior.
Unanimously, do you know how rare that is these days!

Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns ‘Bridgegate’ Convictions
The court said there was evidence of wrongdoing but not of a federal crime.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously overturned the convictions of two defendants in the “Bridgegate” scandal.

The case resulted from a decision in 2013 by associates of Chris Christie, then the governor of New Jersey, to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge to punish a political opponent. The resulting scandal helped doom Mr. Christie’s presidential ambitions.

Closing the lanes was a wrong, the Supreme Court ruled, but not a federal crime.

The associates, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, were convicted of wire fraud and related federal charges for their roles in concocting a “traffic study” that caused extreme delays for motorists seeking to cross the bridge, the busiest in the world, from Fort Lee, N.J., to Manhattan.

The mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, had rebuffed a request to endorse Mr. Christie, and this was his punishment.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/supreme-court-bridgegate.html?fbclid=IwAR2IWf_blNaMX4QxLP3OcKku6Chb0JsQhq13jRrTNoFMb7U3l287sCmJvFc


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