Yesterday, a lawyer for David Wildstein said "evidence exists" that NJ Governor Chris Christie knew about the the horrendous shutdown of Fort Lee's roads to the George Washington Bridge. But did you realize that Wildstein was also kind of the office weirdo?

Wildstein had worked under Christie appointee Bill Baroni at the Port Authority. (He also used to run the NJ politics blog, PoliticsNJ.com, where he hired Steve Kornacki.) He was considered to be Christie's eyes and ears at the PA because he apparently had direct access to the governor's office.

And he certainly was in communique with them: Christie's deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly wrote to Wildstein, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," via their personal email accounts, setting in motion the week of traffic congestion.

Today, the Star-Ledger has a closer look at Wildstein:

Inside the Park Avenue headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, David Wildstein was known for a passive-aggressive style that left some colleagues feeling uneasy.

Sometimes, he would simply stand silently over a co-worker’s shoulder, watching them at their computer.

"He would ask you a question and listen to your answer and then he stared at you for a long time and you’d have these long, awkward silences," recalled one, who like many interviewed, did not want to be identified.

But they agreed that he was pretty hard-working, "He was notorious for getting in early and walking around and looking at who was at work and who wasn’t."

Christie has tried to distance himself from Wildstein since the scandal broke out. Here's how he described their relationship during the governor's marathon mea culpa:

Well, let me just clear something up, OK, about my childhood friend David Wildstein. It is true that I met David in 1977 in high school. He's a year older than me. David and I were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school. I mean, I had a high school in Livingston, a three-year high school that 1,800 students in a three-year high school in the late '70s, early 1980.

I knew who David Wildstein was. I met David on the Tom Kean for governor campaign in 1977. He was a youth volunteer, and so was I.

Really, after that time, I completed lost touch with David. We didn't travel in the same circles in high school. You know, I was the class president and athlete. I don't know what David was doing during that period of time. And then we reacquainted years later in, I think, 2000 when he was helping Bob Franks with his Senate campaign against Jon Corzine. So we went 23 years without seeing each other, and in the years we did see each other, we passed in the hallways. So I want to clear that up. It doesn't make a difference except that I think some of the stories... like an emotional relationship and closeness between me and David that doesn't exist. I know David and, you know, I knew that Bill Baroni wanted to hire David to come to the Port Authority, and I gave my permission for him to do it, but that was Bill's hire. He asked for permission, I gave my permission for him to hire David. But let's be clear about the relationship, OK?

And how do I feel about David now? Listen, what I read yesterday makes me angry. That's the one bit of anger I felt. That language and that callous indifference in those emails from David yesterday, are just over the top and outrageous. It should never, ever have been written or uttered by somebody with a position of responsibility like that, and those sentiments. So that's the way I feel about it, and thanks for the opportunity to further expound on my relationship.

The Daily Beast's Michael Tomaskey wrote, "I remember hearing those sentences and thinking gee, that's not very nice--and not very smart. What if Wildstein is sitting on some goods? Is he going to be happy being dismissed as too geeky for Christie to waste his time on back in high school?"

Of course, they look chummy in these recent photos.