Bridgegate: Christie says he never knew, other say different

Prosecutors say the lanes were closed in September 2013 to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat who refused to endorse the Republican governor.

Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff and a defendant in the trial, believed the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study that would eventually improve traffic flow.

Wildstein, a former high-ranking official at the Port Authority who attended high school with Christie, testified that Christie was told about the traffic in Fort Lee on the third day of the gridlock during a Sept. 11 memorial event.

Wildstein said Bill Baroni told Christie there was "a tremendous amount of traffic in Fort Lee" that morning and that Sokolich was "very frustrated" he wasn't getting his phone calls returned.

DuHaime, one of Christie's closest political advisers, said he told Christie in December 2013 that Kelly and campaign manager Bill Stepien knew about the lane closures.

[...] on Jan. 9, 2014, after Kelly's "time for some traffic problems" email to Wildstein was released publicly, Christie said that he was "embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team" in an expansive apology for the lane closures.

Christie has spoken twice since the trial began, affirming on sports talk radio that he was tired of talking about it and addressing Wildstein's statements on Sept. 27, saying that "no matter what is said" in the trial he didn't know about the lane realignments or authorize them.