Ex-Chris Christie crony Bridget Kelly still isn’t ready to go to prison for the 2013 “Bridgegate” scandal — she has asked a judge to delay her 13-month sentence until July 10, after her four young kids get out of school.
Kelly’s lawyer, Michael Critchley, said in a letter that she’s hoping the delay will “ensure all arrangements are finalized for her children’s care while she is incarcerated and to avoid disrupting the end of her minor children’s academic school year,” NJ.com reported.
Kelly, a single mother who was the former New Jersey governor’s deputy chief of staff, was convicted in November 2016 of plotting to shut down toll plaza access lanes of the George Washington Bridge as political payback after the mayor of Fort Lee refused to endorse Christie’s re-election.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Kelly infamously wrote in an email.
At her sentencing last month, Kelly called herself a scapegoat and blamed the plot on Christie, who was never charged.
She will serve her time at a minimum-security camp for female inmates in West Virginia.
Kelly had been sentenced to 18 months in prison until an appeals court in November overturned two of the nine counts she’d been convicted of.
She has petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear her remaining appeal; her co-defendant, former Port Authority exec Bill Baroni, has been sentenced to 18 months in the plot but has said he will make no further appeals.