NEWARK, N.J.—The Democratic mayor who prosecutors say was targeted by two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie for a political vendetta told jurors Tuesday how he was courted by Christie staffers for more than three years before ultimately declining to endorse Christie’s re-election.
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich testified he told a Christie staffer about his endorsement decision in the late summer of 2013, weeks before traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge plunged the town into four days of gridlock.
Bill Baroni New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, at Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Court in Newark, N.J., on Sept. 20, 2016. AP Photo/Julio Cortez
