The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the convictions of two central figures in the 2013 “Bridgegate” lane-closing scandal.
It’s been more than six years since traffic patterns were purposely altered on the George Washington Bridge in what prosecutors said was a plot to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee who hadn’t endorsed Christie.
“The key to this case was the fact that the bad conduct did not amount of a taking of property from the federal government,” former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz said. “The defendants here did not gain any money or any property by their illegal actions and as a result it did not meet what the statutes say is a federal crime in this case.”