Another Bridge(t)-Gate subpoena recipient has vacated his post:
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Paul Nunziato...The president of the union that represents police officers for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who has come under increasing scrutiny in connection with the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, told his membership on Thursday that he would step aside from the union’s day-to-day operations...
Mr. Nunziato is close to David Wildstein, who was the director of interstate capital projects at the Port Authority. (Wildstein) submitted his resignation on Dec. 6...
In December, when some Port Authority officials were still maintaining that the closings were part of a traffic study, the union leader said the study had been his idea...(which) he had put forward...at a breakfast with Mr. Wildstein...
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And speaking of implicated Port Authority cops:
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...(T)he police union and its leaders are under investigation by both the Legislature and the Port Authority for enforcing the George Washington Bridge lane closures, telling disgruntled motorists to call Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich to make sure he knew the lane closures were aimed at him, and backing up the Christie administration’s cover story that the closures were part of a legitimate traffic study...
Christie’s veto authority over Port Authority decisions gave him the power to keep his promise to unilaterally block efforts to allow the New York City Police Department patrol the new Freedom Tower...
Scrutiny of the Port Authority police union was further heightened this weekend when MSNBC’s Steven Kornacki discovered that the “Chip” who drove Wildstein to the George Washington Bridge to view the traffic tie-ups on September 9...was...Port Authority Police Lt. Thomas “Chip” Michaels, who is the brother of Christie senior campaign adviser Jeff Michaels...The Christies and the Michaels are lifelong friends who grew up together...
“The Governor has never had any conversations with either Jeff or Chip Michaels on this topic,” Christie spokesman Keven Roberts said yesterday.
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He didn't? How unfortunate. If Michaels the cop had mentioned it to Michaels to adviser, who had advised the governor that there was an unauthorized lane closure on the George Washington Bridge, maybe none of this would have happened -- fine friends THEY are!