More than a dozen new subpoenas will be issued as part of the ongoing Bridgegate investigation, a joint legislative committee announced following a hearing in Trenton on Monday.
While the joint legislative committee probing the Bridgegate scandal continues to review thousands of pages of subpoenaed docuements, the panel's co-chair updates Townsquare Media on where things stand today and where the investigation goes from here.
Even before one joint Senate and Assembly Committee was formed to investigate the Bridgegate scandal, Republicans were worried they wouldn't have equal access to all information.
Monday was the deadline for subpoenaed documents in the Bridgegate controversy to be delivered to the joint legislative committee investigating the scandal.
The "merits" of so-called "Bridgegate" is playing out in warp speed as partisan Democrats at the local, county, state and national level conspire to do everything that they can to attach it directly to Governor Chris Christie.
The fired Port Authority official who gave the order for the controversial closing of approach lanes to the George Washington Bridge now says Gov. Chris Christie knew about the closings at the time, according to a letter from his attorney.
The New Jersey Senate and General Assembly have voted to create one, 12-member panel to investigate the unannounced George Washington Bridge access lane closures that took place in Fort Lee in September.
The full state Senate and Assembly are set to vote on a measure establishing a bipartisan, bicameral, 12-member committee to continue the investigation into the ongoing Bridgegate scandal, but some feel U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman should take over the probe.
The New Jersey Senate and Assembly are merging efforts to investigate the unannounced closure of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September, citing a possible abuse of power by the Christie administration.