Robert M. "Bob" Gordon is an American politician serving as a commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. Prior to being commissioner,Gordon was a Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from January 8,2008 to April 4,2018 representing the 38th Legislative District. He also served in the General Assembly from 2004 to 2008.
Kevin J. O'Toole is an American Republican Party politician,who served in the New Jersey Senate. O'Toole represented the 40th legislative district,which included parts of Bergen,Essex,Morris,and Passaic counties from 2008 to 2017.
John Scott Wisniewski is an American Democratic Party politician,who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1996 to 2018,where he represented the 19th Legislative District. He was a Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey in the 2017 election,he lost in the primary election to Phil Murphy.
Christopher James Christie is an American politician and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party,he was the United States Attorney for New Jersey from 2002 to 2008 and a Morris County commissioner from 1995 to 1997. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and 2024.
William Stepien is an American political consultant who served as the campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign beginning in July of that year. A member of the Republican Party,he was the White House Director of Political Affairs in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018.
William "Pat" Schuber is an American Republican Party politician who served as Mayor of Bogota,represented the 38th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly and served 12 years as the Bergen County Executive
David Samson is an American lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003. He served as the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28,2014 in the aftermath of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal. Samson is a partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff &Samson from which he resigned in April 2015,and had been an ally of Governor Chris Christie.
The George Washington Bridge Plaza,also known as GWB Plaza or Bridge Plaza,is the convergence of roads and highways around the George Washington Bridge toll plaza in Fort Lee,New Jersey,United States. The plaza is located north of and parallel to Fort Lee's Main Street. The surrounding busy area is characterized by a mix of commercial and residential uses and an architectural variety that includes parking lots,strip malls,houses,gas stations,mid-rise office buildings and high-rise condominiums. Just to the east is Fort Lee Historic Park,Palisades Interstate Park and the bridge's western tower.
Thomas Goodwin is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the New Jersey Senate from the 14th legislative district. Selected on March 11,Goodwin succeeded Bill Baroni,who had resigned to take a role in Governor Chris Christie's administration. He was sworn in on March 15,2010,and sought re-election in a special June primary and November general election. He was defeated for election to a full term in November 2010 by Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein.
Daniel R. Benson is an American Democratic Party politician who is the current Mercer County Executive and a former member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 14th Legislative District. Benson,who previously served on the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders,replaced Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein,after she was elected to the New Jersey Senate in a special election. He was sworn in on January 10,2011,to fill Greenstein's vacant Assembly seat.
Chris Christie took office as the 55th Governor of New Jersey on January 19,2010,began his second term on January 21,2014,and left office on January 16,2018.
The Fort Lee lane closure scandal,better known as Bridgegate,was a political scandal in the U.S. state of New Jersey in 2013 and 2014. It involved a staff member and political appointees of then-governor Chris Christie colluding to create traffic jams in Fort Lee,New Jersey by closing lanes at the main toll plaza for the upper level of the George Washington Bridge.
David Wildstein is an American businessman,former Republican Party politician,and the founder and editor-in-chief of the New Jersey political news website New Jersey Globe. A former mayor of Livingston,New Jersey,he served as a senior official in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie until 2013,when Wildstein resigned in the midst of a scandal involving traffic lanes closures. On May 1,2015,he pleaded guilty to two federal felony counts of conspiracy as part of a plea agreement,but his conviction was later overturned.
Bridget Anne Kelly is the former deputy chief of staff to the Governor of New Jersey,Chris Christie,known for her participation in the Bridgegate scandal.
Regina M. Egea served as the chief of staff to the governor of New Jersey,Chris Christie. She was appointed in December 2013 and resigned in April 2016. She is the president of Garden State Initiative,a public policy think tank based in Morristown,New Jersey,which was founded in 2017.
Philip Kwon is deputy counsel for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a previous nominee for the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Walter Francis "Wally" Timpone is a former Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court,having been sworn on May 2,2016. He was nominated to the Supreme Court by Governor Chris Christie and confirmed by the New Jersey Senate in April 2016. He resigned on August 31,2020.
William J. Brennan,known as Bill Brennan,is a former firefighter,lawyer,and activist. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey in the 2017 election.
Kelly v. United States,590 U.S. ___ (2020),was a United States Supreme Court case involving the 2013 Fort Lee lane closure scandal,also known as "Bridgegate". The case centered on whether Bridget Anne Kelly,the chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who was running for reelection at the time,and Bill Baroni,the Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,improperly used lane closures on the George Washington Bridge to create traffic jams as a means of retaliation against Mark Sokolich,the mayor of Fort Lee,New Jersey,when he refused to support Christie's reelection campaign. While lower courts had convicted Kelly and Baroni on federal fraud,wire fraud and conspiracy charges,the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the convictions in its May 2020 ruling,stating that such charges could not apply as "the scheme here did not aim to obtain money or property",and remanded their cases back to the lower courts.
