(CNN)A federal judge in New Jersey denied Friday an 11th-hour attempt by an anonymous person to prevent the release of a list containing unindicted co-conspirators in the 2013 "Bridgegate" scandal.
U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton said in a court filing that the new deadline for the release of the list -- Tuesday at noon -- would remain in place. The list had been set to release on Friday at noon, before the last-minute motion to stop the release by a "John Doe."
As part of her ruling on Friday, Wigenton said Doe could remain anonymous within the context of his motion, though his name will still be released as part of the unindicted co-conspirator list.
"We are very pleased that the judge allowed this to proceed," said Bruce Rosen, lawyer for the media groups that sought to make this list public.
Jenny Kramer, Doe's lawyer, responded to the Friday decision with an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. An emergency motion to stay the judge's decision was also filed to the appeals court.
Kramer did not respond to CNN's request for comment.
"We hope that the Third Circuit will deny the stay and the list will be released before Tuesday at noon," Rosen said.
Wigenton earlier had sided with media organizations requesting a list of those involved but not indicted in the lane closure scandal at the George Washington Bridge to be made public.
Gov. Chris Christie became engulfed by "Bridgegate" shortly after winning a second term nearly three years ago. Emails and texts from top aides show they requested that two lanes onto the bridge be shut down in September 2013, causing massive traffic jams in Fort Lee after the town's Democratic mayor declined to endorse Christie's re-election.
Late Thursday, Kramer, an attorney for Chadbourne & Parke law firm, wrote a letter to the judge on behalf of the John Doe, arguing that releasing his name would brand him a "felon without due process of the law, causing him immediate and irreparable harm."
"Doe moves to anonymously intervene in this action and stay the Order because the Conspirator Letter, which identifies him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the criminal plot to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retaliation, brands him as a criminal without due process of law," Kramer wrote.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey said that it would comply with the Tuesday deadline.
A lengthy investigation into whether people close to the governor closed lanes to create traffic at the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retribution yielded charges against Bridget Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, the former deputy director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as a guilty plea on a conspiracy charge from David Wildstein, a Christie ally. Kelly and Baroni have both pleaded not guilty.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not indicted as part of the Bridgegate scandal. But one of his appointees pled guilty and 2 former staffers face criminal charges.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – David Wildstein, a former top Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit fraud on federally funded property and one civil rights violation.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Bridget Anne Kelly, Gov. Chris Christie deputy chief of staff, was fired when her e-mail about it being time for "traffic in Fort Lee" became the center of the scandal. She has been charged with nine criminal counts, including conspiracy and fraud.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Bill Baroni was executive deputy director of the Port Authority until he resigned amid the scandal in December 2014. He has been charged them with nine criminal counts, including conspiracy and fraud.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer claims New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno approached her in a parking lot last May and told her that Sandy recovery aid for her town depended on her support of a redevelopment project backed by the governor.
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Who's who in the Christie controversies – Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno denies telling Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer that her town's Superstorm Sandy relief money depended on her support for a redevelopment project proposed by a company with ties to Gov. Chris Christie that he had backed.
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Who's who in the Christie controversies – Maria Comella, a deputy chief of staff in Christie's office, had been monitoring the media reaction weeks after the George Washington Bridge traffic fiasco. She has been subpoenaed as part of the state legislative investigation.
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Who's who in Christie controversies – Randy Mastro, a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former deputy mayor of New York, will head the legal team representing the Christie administration in various investigations relating to the George Washington Bridge political scandal. He once a the federal racketeering lawsuit that forced the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to hold democratic elections and undergo court supervision.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Reid Schar, a key figure in the federal prosecution of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, will assist the special state Assembly committee investigating the bridge scandal that has engulfed current and former aides of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, a Democrat, said he was concerned about the bidding process for using $25 million in Superstorm Sandy relief funds for a marketing campaign to promote tourism at the Jersey Shore.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – E-mails suggest that Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich was the apparent target of an alleged political payback scheme involving traffic jams around the George Washington Bridge. He met with Chris Christie in early January to discuss the matter, and said the governor was "gracious and apologetic."
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman John Wisniewski is chairman of the special state Assembly committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal. The panel has subpoenaed current and former top Christie aides as well members of his political organization, seeking documents and other materials. Chris Christie has not been subpoenaed but his office has.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Michael Drewniak, Christie's chief spokesman, has been subpoenaed by a special state Assembly committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal. It is seeking documents and other materials. Although there is nothing to suggest Drewniak was involved in the scandal, e-mails released by investigators show he met with a key figure, David Wildstein, two days before Wildstein resigned from his job as a top Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – David Samson, Port Authority chairman, said its board had no knowledge of the George Washington Bridge traffic jam mess until five days after the fact. He has been subpoenaed by the state assembly committee and is also a partner and founding member of Wolff & Samson, the law firm that represented the Rockefeller Group in the Hoboken redevelopment plan.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority, said access lane closures that resulted in the George Washington Bridge traffic mess didn't follow proper agency protocols. He ordered the lanes reopened and has been subpoenaed by the state Assembly committee as part of its investigation into the bridge scandal.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, a Democrat who also didn't endorse Christie, has raised his own suspicions about his cooled relationship with the administration.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat, has been pressing for information about the scandal.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Democrat Barbara Buono is a New Jersey state senator who challenged Chris Christie this past November and lost in a landslide. She derided Christie during the campaign as representing "the worst combination of bully and bossism," and she brought up the George Washington Bridge traffic mess as an example.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Bill Stepien managed Chris Christie's two successful campaigns for govenor. E-mails suggest he was aware of the bridge lane closures, and Christie has asked him to give up his political role. He, too, has been subpoenaed by the state committee investigating the matter.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – Scott Rechler, vice chairman of the Port Authority's board of commissioners, e-mailed other representatives of the agency saying he was disturbed that traffic was snarled "without regard to this being the Jewish high holiday weekend" last September. Rechler was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Who's who in Christie bridge scandal – E-mails suggest Regina Egea, then a senior staffer and the governor's point person to the Port Authority and other agencies, was aware of concerns the George Washington Bridge lane closures were not part of an ongoing traffic study as the Christie administration initially claimed. She's now Christie's incoming chief of staff and has also been subpoenaed by the state Assembly committee.
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Christie has not been charged and has denied any knowledge of the closures.
Kramer argued that her client's anonymity "is critical to preserve his constitutional rights against being branded with a 'badge of infamy' through criminal accusations he has no means of contesting."
As the scandal swirled around these individuals, investigators found a number of co-conspirators who were not charged, said Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
He did not name the co-conspirators or elaborate on why they were not charged but said that they could be identified at a later date.
