Document Type
Brief
Category
What Comes Next?
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
From September 9-13, 2013, officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shut down access lanes of the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City for a "traffic study" that gridlocked the small city of Fort Lee, New Jersey for hours each day. In the following weeks, evidence emerged of political motives behind the bridge closure, spurring federal prosecutors to announce an investigation in January 2014. On May 1, 2015, Paul Fishman, U.S. Attorney of New Jersey, charged that two defendants illegally closed the bridge to punish Fort Lee's mayor for refusing to endorse Governor Chris Christie for reelection in 2013.
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity,
New Jersey's "Bridgegate" Scandal,
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/103