Like a bull in a China shop made of subpoenas, Chris Christie’s charging towards every closing door. A couple of weeks ago it was announced by the lawyers representing three of the defendants accused of shutting down the George Washington Bridge as a part of a Chris Christie revenge scheme, that Governor Christie was obstructing justice by losing/destroying important evidence.
The allegations were made in a pair of briefs filed with the court late Monday night in federal court in New Jersey. Among them: Chris Christie “lost” a cell phone he used during the bridge closure, deleted text messages sent during that time, and failed to turn over emails that defense attorneys eventually found through other methods.
New filings in the case by the same attorneys allege that Christie has a missing personal email account. An account that no one seems to have access to but may very well have important information on it.
For two and half years, Christie has insisted that both his personal and government email accounts were searched by investigators, and there was nothing to indicate he knew anything about the lane closures scheme. He also claimed he never did government work on his personal email account.
But new court documents indicate that a personal email account he shared with his wife, Mary Pat, was never searched — and he used that account to send at least one Bridgegate-related government email to David Samson, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the bridge. That email forwarded an article with the comment "per our earlier conversation" that discussed a phone conversation Christie had with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo concerning the lane closure investigation.
The fiscal Republican’s taxpayer-funded lawyers have only cost New Jersey’s voters about $13 million so far—but don’t worry, they’ll get more money out of the coffers yet. To put this all in perspective, here’s Chris Christie attacking Hillary Clinton last year:
"Can you imagine, if after the bridge investigation began, I came out and said 'Oh, I've done all my business as governor on a private email server. And, I've deleted now 30,000 of those emails. But trust me none of it had to do with the bridge.' Give me a break," Christie said Monday on CNN.
No more “breaks” for you.