'I wanted to be on the team,' Bill Baroni said at his resentencing. 'But I chose to get sucked into his cult and culture.'
Former Chris Christie aide says of Bridgegate that he had 'wanted to please' his then-boss
In a wavering voice Tuesday before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, Bill Baroni apologized for his actions and said he allowed his desire to be on Christie's"team" to cloud his judgment. Baroni was a Christie-appointed executive of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge. He was convicted in 2016 and sentenced in 2017 to 24 months in prison, but a federal appeals court threw out civil rights counts against Baroni and co-defendant Bridget Kelly, the Republican governor's former deputy chief of staff, last fall and ordered the resentencing.
Baroni had sought a new sentence of six months' incarceration plus additional home confinement and community service. The government had asked for a prison term of at least 18 months.
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