A central figure in the Bridgegate corruption case has landed a new job: Deputy campaign manager for President Trump's reelection campaign. Bill Stepien rose to prominence running former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's campaigns. He also worked as a top taxpayer-funded staffer in the governor's office, where he masterminded a strategy of gifts for politicians who supported Christie, and punishment for those who didn't.
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He once wrote: "It's good to be an incumbent with stuff to offer, ain't it? When told of the lane-closure political retaliation scheme known as Bridgegate, he allegedly asked the conspirator: "What's your cover?" He was fired by Christie after Bridgegate but never charged. At his former colleagues' Bridgegate trial, his name came up 351 times.
The case against the two convicted co-conspirators in the Bridgegate trial was recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
