After days of complaints about traffic jams at a major New York bridge in 2013, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's associate demanded to know if lane closures were political retribution, he testified on Monday. On trial over his alleged role in the "Bridgegate" scandal, Bill Baroni, Christie's top political appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said he confronted fellow authority executive David Wildstein to ask whether the lane closures in September 2013 were an act of retribution against the Democratic mayor of a commuter town. "I said, 'David, tell me right now, is this true?'" Baroni testified in federal court in Newark, where he is on trial on fraud charges.
