By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor Two former Chris Christie appointees have met with federal prosecutors about the 'Bridgegate' fiasco, adding new fuel to the fire just weeks after a report commissioned by the New Jersey governor appeared to clear his name. Former Port Authority official David Wildstein and former Christie chief counsel Charlie McKenna have both begun the process of disentangling themselves from scandal swirling around the Republican governor, according to liberal bloggers at Esquire magazine and the online legal publication Main Justice. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, the New Jersey prosecutor who succeeded Christie in that office, has begun presenting evidence to a grand jury. Longtime Christie press secretary Michael Drewniak has been in and out of those proceedings.
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David Wildstein, the Port Authority figure at the center of the George Washington Bridge scandal, has met with the US Attorney's investigators
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So has Charlie McKenna, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former chief legal counsel and a longtime confidante
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The 'Bridgegate' plot was an apparent effort to stymie traffic entering the George Washington Bridge as political payback against a Democratic mayor
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US Attorney Paul Fishman, who succeeded Christie in the job, is probing the governor and his staff; Christie says he knows nothing
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Christie's job and presidential ambitions hang in the balance as former aides weigh testifying and he waits to see if their memories clash with his
According to multiple witnesses at Christie's going-away party in the U.S. Attorney's office, Fishman – angry at Christie for taking so many skilled lawyers with him to the governor's office – threw a copy of a @placeholder directory of lawyers at his feet, saying he should consult it before embarking on his next recruiting binge.