White Collar Week, Ep. 13: Everything but Bridgegate with Bill Baroni

White Collar Week with Jeff Grant. It's the Isolation that Destroys Us. The Solution is in Community.
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Podcast Ep. 13: Everything but Bridgegate with Bill Baroni

Today on the podcast, we have as our guest, Bill Baroni – or as they called him in federal prison, Billy Bridgegate. Bill was arrested, tried, and found guilty and served time for his role in the infamous Bridgegate corruption scandal that destroyed the presidential aspirations of former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie. Bill's conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and today he is felony-free and talks with us about his journey.

We are calling this episode "Everything but Bridgegate" because Bill can't discuss the nuts and bolts of the scandal due to pending legal matters. But what Bill does share with us is an amazing story of power, abuse of power, ambition, navigation of the criminal justice system as it applies to people prosecuted for white collar crimes, and ultimate vindication.

So coming up, Bill Baroni on White Collar Week. I hope you will join us. - Jeff

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Welcome to White Collar Week with Jeff Grant, a podcast serving the white collar justice community. It’s the isolation that destroys us. The solution is in community.

If you are interested in this podcast, then you are probably already a member of the white collar justice community – even if you don’t quite know it yet. Our community is certainly made up of people being prosecuted, or who have already been prosecuted, for white collar crimes. But it is also made up of the spouses, children and families of those prosecuted for white collar crimes – these are the first victims of white collar crime. And the community also consists of the other victims, both direct and indirect, and those in the wider white collar ecosystem like friends, colleagues, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, law enforcement, academics, researchers. Investigators, mitigation experts, corrections officers, reentry professionals, mental health care professionals, drug and alcohol counselors, – and ministers, chaplains and advocates for criminal and social justice reform. The list goes on and on…

In this very eventful summer 2020, our mission is to introduce you to other members of the white collar justice community, to hear their very personal stories, and hopefully gain a broader perspective of what this is really all about. Maybe this will inspire some deeper thoughts and introspection? Maybe it will inspire some empathy and compassion for people you might otherwise resent or dismiss? And maybe it will help lift us all out of our own isolation and into community, so we can learn to live again in the sunshine of the spirit.

Blessings, לשלום

Jeff

Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his)
Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., Greenwich CT & Nationwide
Co-host, The Criminal Justice Insider Podcast
Host, White Collar Week
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Not a prison coach, not a prison consultant.