Bridgegate

Bridgegate

A scandal in which officials linked to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were accused of ordering the closure of several lanes of the George Washington Bridge in an allegedly deliberate attempt to cause traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey (a town whose mayor who had not backed Christie's 2013 reelection bid). Was anyone ever charged in Bridgegate?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • cause (some) tongues to wag
  • cause tongues to wag
  • awagging
  • cash on delivery
  • delivery
  • liquefied
  • lubricated
  • a horseback opinion
  • bargepole
  • cease and desist
References in periodicals archive
The restoration is being carried out by BDP in partnership with Donald Insall Associates based at Bridgegate House, Bridgegate, Chester.
We, The Ardee Partnership, intend to apply for full planning permission for a residential development at Bridgegate, Rathgory & Mulladrillen, Drogheda Road, Ardee, Co.
Chris Christie was re-sentenced Wednesday to 13 months in prison for her role in the lane-closing scandal "Bridgegate."
Sir Donald Insall, 93, whose Chester practice Donald Insall Associates is based in Bridgegate, was quoted in the Financial Times because he was in charge of the restoration of Windsor Castle after the 1992 blaze.
Passersby ran to help, while blue-light crews raced to The Clutha on Glasgow's Bridgegate.
14The Clutha Bridgegate Rogue-One, Art Pistol and Ejek created mural on the walls of the Clutha Vaults pub.
(2) Although Christie did launch an official campaign for president in the 2016 race, I focus on the debate around the possibility of Christie's candidacy and its relationship to fatness leading up to the 2012 election as a bounded conversation at the height of interest in Christie prior to the most significant fallout regarding his involvement in the Bridgegate scandal.
Detectives have launched a manhunt following the attempted robbery at the shop on Bridgegate Road in Rhyl at 7.25pm last night.
Colours hold open call sessions at their Glasgow HQ - 133 Bridgegate, Glasgow, G1 5HZ - between 3.30pm and 4.30pm every Wednesday and Thursday.
Christie also promises the "full story" on the Bridgegate scandal that upended his time as governor and badly damaged his reputation after he had been re-elected in a landslide in 2013.
Christie will probably never shake free of the scandal known as Bridgegate, the 2013 plot by some of his underlings to shut down lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge to make life miserable for the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee and his constituents.
The 2013 Bridgegate scandal featuring Christie's Port Authority people manufacturing traffic jams in a northern New Jersey city as political retribution against its Democratic mayor signaled the end of Christie's gubernatorial career.
Wray had represented New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the so-called Bridgegate scandal.
(28) The defense in the recent "Bridgegate" corruption trial--in which both accomplice testimony and the actions of uncharged participants featured prominently--is a recent and high-profile example of this oft-used strategy.
NBC News also reported the handover, which came one week after two former Christie associates were found guilty in the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal.