Lesson for Malloy Cronies: Feds Put Two More Convictions on the Board. Christie Lieutenants Guilty on All Counts.

Juries seem pre-disposed to believing people in politics are corrupt. They also do not believe their testimony when they testify in their own defense. After a six week trial, jurors found two defendants–New Jersey Governor Chris Christie enforcers Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly–were found guilty of abusing their authority as government employees. The George Washington Bridge scandal–as it became known–involved members of Christie’s inner circle closing lanes on the New Jersey side of the bridge in 2013 in retribution for a local Democratic mayor’s refusal to endorse Republican Christie’s re-election bid.

The third member of the Christie bridge triangle, David Wildstein, made a deal with prosecutors and testified against his former colleagues. He is likely to get considerable credit when a sentence is imposed.

Connecticut Democrats under scrutiny in a criminal investigation of the financing of Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s 2014 re-election campaign may want to ponder the Wildstein example.