Former allies of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were sentenced to prison Wednesday for engineering lane closures at the George Washington Bridge as alleged retaliation against a Democratic mayor who didn"t endorse the governor.
Bill Baroni, who served as deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will spend two years behind bars and must do 500 hours of community service. His co-conspirator, Bridget Anne Kelly, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, plus a year of probation. Both said they"ll file appeals.
The sentencing drew a response from Christie"s camp — but in regards to U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton"s comments to Kelly that she "got caught up in a culture and environment that lost its way."
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