Bridgegate defendant William Baroni Jr.’s allegation that the government is trying to withhold potentially exculpatory evidence is “offensive and uninformed,” prosecutors said in an Oct. 13 filing in the civil case over the September 2013 closure of local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey moved Sept. 16 to intervene in the civil case of Galicki v. State of New Jersey and to stay the proceedings while it prosecutes its criminal case against Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, who have been accused of orchestrating traffic jams in Fort Lee to punish that town’s Democratic mayor for refusing to endorse Gov. Chris Christie’s re-election campaign.

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