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Quote, going to take a ride with chip and see how it looks. so we wonder, is this person, chip, the same person wildstein was texting with? the same police lieutenant durando testified gave wildstein a tour of the area? it appears likely that it is. it's a little tricky because there's no one with the name of chip listed in official port authority materials as a police officer at the bridge. but, when we called the police chief in ft. lee, we asked him which officials at the port authority he had conversations with that week about the lane closures and the traffic. he mention ed a port authori...

Officials to close the lanes and that wildstein personally showed up at the bridge 6:00 a.m. that monday morning to oversee the closures along with robert durando, the general manager of the bridge. this is how he described what wildstein did that morning. >> he came to the facility on monday morning. he stood at the communications desk for a little while. it's an area with cameras, limited views, allbeit stayed there for a little while. he then left the facility, left the communications desk with a police lieutenant assigned to the george washington bridge to ride around the facility for some...

September 9-13 of last year when ft. lee's traffic was deliberately ground to a halt. to return to the root of the scandal, to understand what was going on in real time and to identify all of the questions this chain of events raises. and there might still be more shoes to drop, 20 subpoenas were issued by the legislative's new joint investigative committee. they're due back starting tomorrow but we're about to show you from the most extensive public record that currently exists. as you no doubt have seen, bridget kelly's time for traffic problems e-mail went out last august 13. david wailed s...

The three access lanes. by august 28, a week later, wildstein has requested the chief traffic engineer rivera has prepared a mock-up of three different traffic scenarios including cutting down ft. lee's lanes from three to two. chief engineer peter zip forwards it to wildstein noting it could be to merge down to only one lane. that's, quote, if needed. and friday, september 6, according to testimony from both durando and fulton, the director of the bridges, tunnels, and terminals department, wildstein directs them to go ahead with the test. he has a condition that they not inform officials in ...

Pat foye will later tem the assembly committee word the press was looking into the lane closures on the bridge on the fourth day was the first time he had ever heard they were happening which brings to us friday, september 13, when the whole stunt comes to an end. foye sends out this infamous e-mail which has become known as the foye memo at 7:44 a.m. he tells agency officials he is canceling the closures, which he believes actually violate federal and state laws and that, quote, i will get to the bottom of this abusive decision which violates everything this agency stands for. but the narrati...