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Bridgegate Defendants: Court upholds wire fraud, and theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds convictions, reverses deprivation of civil rights convictions.

By Candace Hom, Melinda Ghilardi, Nancy Rimmer, Sarah Gannett, Renee Pietropaolo and Tieffa Harper

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U.S. v. Baroni, 17-1817, 2018 WL 6175668 (3d Cir. Nov. 27, 2018)Defendants Baroni and Kelly were charged with conspiracy to obtain by fraud, knowingly convert, or intentionally misapply property of an organization receiving federal benefits, 18 U.S.C. § 371, and the substantive offense, § 666(a)(1)(A); conspiracy to commit wire fraud, § 1349, and two counts of the substantive offense, § 1343; and conspiracy against civil rights, § 241, and the substantive offense, § 242. The charges stemmed from ?Bridgegate??the much covered scheme to impose gridlock on the Borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey, after Fort Lee?s mayor refused to endorse the 2013 reelection bid of then-Governor Chris Christie. Under the guise of conducting a ?traffic study,? Baroni and Kelly, among others, conspired to limit Fort Lee motorists? access to the George Washington Bridge, over a period of four days, causing severe traffic jams and safety issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by Third Circuit Blog on December 04, 2018 (boomark / email).