United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey

The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. Paul J. Fishman was sworn into office as U.S. Attorney on October 14, 2009 after having been nominated by President Barack Obama.^[1] He succeeded Ralph J. Marra, who served as Acting U.S. Attorney after the resignation of Chris Christie in December 2008 to run for Governor of New Jersey.^[2][3] The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney.

Organization

The Office is organized into divisions handling civil, criminal, and appellate matters, in addition to the Special Prosecutions Division, which oversees political corruption investigations.^[4] The District of New Jersey is also divided into three vicinages: Newark, Trenton and Camden, with the southern two offices supervised by a Deputy U.S. Attorney. The office employs approximately 135 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.^[5] It is the fifth-largest U.S. Attorney's Office in the nation, behind those in the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Miami.^[6]

High-profile cases

• Hugh Addonizio - Conviction of former Newark mayor on conspiracy and extortion charges
• Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer - Conviction of Goatse Security hacker involved in the aggregation of publicly published email address data from AT&T 3G iPad servers, who had his CFAA conviction vacated when the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the venue in New Jersey was improper since no conduct element of his alleged crime occurred within the state of New Jersey.
• Wayne Bryant - Conviction of former chairman of New Jersey Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee for funneling money to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in exchange for a no-show job at the University.
• Crazy Eddie - Conviction of Eddie Antar, founder and CEO of Crazy Eddie, a consumer electronics chain, for fraud
• Walter Forbes - Conviction of former chairman of Cendant Corporation for fraud.^[7]
• Fort Dix Six (2007) - Conviction of group of six radical Islamist men allegedly plotting attack on Fort Dix military base^[8]
• Cornelius Gallagher - Guilty plea of New Jersey Congressman for tax evasion^[9]
• Nelson G. Gross - Conviction of former Republican state chairman on perjury and obstruction of justice charges
• Sharpe James (2008) - Conviction of former Newark mayor on corruption charges^[10]
• Robert C. Janiszewski (2002) - Guilty plea of Hudson County Executive for tax evasion and bribery^[11]
• John V. Kenny - Conviction of former Jersey City mayor and chairman of Hudson County Democratic Party on conspiracy, bribery, and extortion charges
• Charles Kushner (2004) - Guilty plea of real estate developer—and largest campaign donor to former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey—for filing false tax returns and for attempting to retaliate against a witness in a federal criminal case^[12]
• Hemant Lakhani (2005) - Conviction of black market arms dealer attempting to sell shoulder-fired missiles^[13]
• John A. Lynch, Jr. - Guilty plea of former president of New Jersey Senate for mail fraud and tax evasion^[14]
• Operation Bid Rig (2002–2009) - Multi-stage political corruption sweep, resulting in arrest of Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, New Jersey Assemblymen Daniel Van Pelt and L. Harvey Smith, and Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega
• Sarah Brockington Bost (2002), Mayor of Irvington, New Jersey
• Martin Taccetta & Michael Taccetta (1987) - Unsuccessful prosecution of high-ranking members of The Jersey Crew, a faction of the Lucchese crime family^[15]
• UMDNJ (2005) - Deferred prosecution agreement overseen by federal monitor Herbert Stern involving Medicaid double-billing and other cases of health care fraud at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.^[16]
• Thomas J. Whelan - Conviction of mayor of Jersey City on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges
• Fort Lee lane closure scandal (2014)

Prominent alumni

Chris Christie, former U.S. Attorney and current Governor of New Jersey.

• Samuel Alito, Jr. - Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
• Maryanne Trump Barry - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third Circuit
• John Winslow Bissell - U.S. District Court Judge
• Matthew Boxer - Comptroller, State of New Jersey
• Garrett Brown, Jr. - U.S. District Court Judge
• Renee Bumb - U.S. District Court Judge
• Michael Chagares - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third Circuit
• Michael Chertoff - Former Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
• Stanley R. Chesler - U.S. District Court Judge
• Christopher J. Christie - Governor of New Jersey
• John Farmer Jr. - Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey
• Joseph Greenaway - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third Circuit
• Peter C. Harvey - Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey
• Katharine Hayden - U.S. District Court Judge
• Noel Hillman - U.S. District Court Judge; Former Chief, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice
• Richard Hughes - Former Governor of New Jersey; Former Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
• David Lat - Blogger, Underneath their Robes and Above the Law
• William Martini - U.S. District Court Judge; Former Congressman (NJ-8)
• Stuart Rabner - Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
• Jerome Simandle - U.S. District Court Judge
• Herbert Stern - former U.S. District Court Judge; former federal monitor, UMDNJ Medicaid fraud investigation

Office holders

Frederick Frelinghuysen, former U.S. Attorney and former U.S. Senator

Samuel Alito, former U.S. Attorney and current Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court.

Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Attorney and former Secretary of Homeland Security.

• Richard Stockton (1789 – 1791)
• Abraham Ogden (1791 – 1798)
• Lucius Horatio Stockton (1798 – 1801)
• Frederick Frelinghuysen (1801)
• George C. Maxwell (1801 – 1803)
• William S. Pennington (1803 – 1804)
• Joseph McIlvaine (1804 – 1824)
• Lucius Q.C. Elmer (1824 – 1829)
• Garret D. Wall (1829 – 1835)
• James S. Green (1835 – 1850)
• William Halstead (1850 – 1853)
• Garret S. Cannon (1853 – 1861)
• Anthony Q. Keasbey (1861 – 1886)
• Job H. Lippincott (1886 – 1887)
• Samuel F. Bigelow (1887 – 1888)
• George S. Duryee (1888 – 1890)
• Henry S. White (1890 – 1894)
• John W. Beekman (1894 – 1896)
• J. Kearney Rice (1896 – 1900)
• David Ogden Watkins (1900 – 1903)
• Cortlandt Parker, Jr. (1903)
• John B. Vreeland (1903 – 1913)
• J. Warren Davis (1913 – 1916)
• Charles Francis Lynch (1916 – 1919)
• Joseph L. Bodine (1919 – 1920)
• Elmer H. Geran (1920 – 1922)
• Walter G. Winne (1922 – 1928)
• Phillip Forman (1928 – 1932)
• Harlan Besson (1932 – 1935)
• John J. Quinn (1935 – 1940)
• William F. Smith (1940 – 1941)
• Charles M. Phillips (1941 – 1943)
• Thorn Lord (1943 – 1945)
• Edgar H. Rossbach (1945 – 1948)
• Isaiah Matlack (1948)
• Alfred E. Modarelli (1948 – 1951)
• Grover C. Richman, Jr. (1951 – 1953)
• William F. Tompkins (1953 – 1954)
• Raymond Del Tufo, Jr. (1954 – 1956)
• Herman Scott (1956)
• Chester A. Weidenburner (1956 – 1961)
• David M. Satz, Jr. (1961 – 1969)
• Donald Horowitz (1969)
• Frederick B. Lacey (1969 – 1971)
• Herbert J. Stern (1971 – 1973)
• Jonathan L. Goldstein (1974 – 1977)
• Robert J. Del Tufo (1977 – 1980)
• William W. Robertson (1980 – 1981)
• W. Hunt Dumont (1981 – 1985)
• Thomas W. Greelish (1985 – 1987)
• Samuel Alito, Jr. (1987 – 1990)
• Michael Chertoff (1990 – 1994)
• Faith S. Hochberg (1994 – 1999)
• Robert J. Cleary (1999 – 2002)
• Christopher J. Christie (2002 – 2008)
• Ralph J. Marra, Jr. (2008 - 2009)
• Paul J. Fishman (2009–present)

References

External links

• Official District Court website
• Official U.S. Attorney's Office website
• Thomas Library of Congress
• Video reviewing the first 225 years of the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1789-2014