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Appointee named david wildstein, the man in the glasses you saw there taking the fifth over and over again during a hearing on the bridge scandal in the new jersey legislature. david wildstein appeared to arry out the order from the deputy chief of staff to close down lanes to the george washington bridge last september in order to intentionally cause traffic problems in the city of ft. lee for almost a week. mr. wildstein was warned during the hearing his failure to answer questions could lead the committee to hold him in contempt. the committee ultimately did vote to hold him in contempt. th...

Authority. he appeared and stood up and put that hand up and said, i'm sorry, i'm not going to answer your questions, i have a fifth amendment protection. that led to a contempt charge. can you explain it? >> it's pretty simple, when you are called before an official body like this and you know there is potential for perhaps a criminal investigation, you have a right to say, i'm not going to testify, because i don't want my words used against me. quite naturally, a legislature is not going to take kindly to that. they have a right to say, you are in contempt for not. part of the rational would...

Deputy chief of staff to close down lanes to the george washington bridge last september in order to intentionally cause traffic problems in the city of ft. lee for almost a week. mr. wildstein was warned during the hearing his failure to answer questions could lead the committee to hold him in contempt. the committee ultimately did vote to hold him in contempt. that contempt charge will now be referred to a new jersey county prosecutor. listen to this exchange between the democratic state assemblyman leading this investigation, john wisniewski and attorney for david wildstein. >> there are in...

>> of course, we were disappointed. i think an apology would have been sufficient on my end. i certainly didn't want to drag out the issue any longer. >> without the apology, the judge ordered stoddard to jail. >> i remember reading all of the news articles in the mesa hilton which is a nice jail facility. >> the arizona court of appeals vacates the sentence but upholds the contempt charge. after spending ten days in jail, stoddard is released, pending the outcome of his appeal. he immediately returns to work in the courts and later attends a class on attorney/client privilege. as for kachi, s...

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