Bridgegate: Former Livingston Mayor Planned to Work on Christie's Prez Campaign

David Wildstein, the former Port Authority executive and mayor of Livingston who recently pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in the “Bridgegate” scandal, may have been planning to leave the agency in 2013 to work on Governor Chris Christie’s campaign.

Jay Alpert, a high-ranking Port Authority police employee at the time of the alleged events of Bridgegate, told NorthJersey.com that Wildstein suggested that he planned to help secure the endorsement of Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich in in June of 2012.

According to NorthJersey.com:

“Alpert’s account, if true, would provide the clearest confirmation yet that the sustained courtship of Fort Lee’s mayor began at least a year and a half before the election, and suggests Wildstein believed he had a future role in Christie’s potential ascent to national office.”

Wildstein’s guilty plea was the first federal conviction in the 2013 scandal involving traffic jams near the Washington Bridge that were allegedly orchestrated as political payback.

Pictured above: David Wildstein