United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
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Formed | September 24, 1789Judiciary Act of 1789 | by the
Jurisdiction | District of New Jersey |
Headquarters | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Parent Department | United States Department of Justice |
Website | justice |
The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On January 6, 2021, Rachael A. Honig was appointed acting U.S. Attorney pursuant to the Vacancies Reform Act.[1] 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.[2] 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 170 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.[3] 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.[4]
High-profile cases[]
- Hugh Addonizio - Conviction of former Newark mayor on conspiracy and extortion charges
- BitClub Network (2019) - Indicted five individuals for operating and promoting the BitClub Network, an elaborate, worldwide Ponzi scheme that law enforcement estimates took in more than $1 billion from investors.
- 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.
- Joseph Centanni (2020) - Filed a civil rights lawsuit against a major landlord who repeatedly engaged in a pattern or practice of sexual harassment of numerous tenants and applicants.
- Cognizant (2019) - Charged the former President and the former Chief Legal Officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. with violations of the FCPA in connection with a foreign bribery scheme.
- 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.[5]
- EDGAR Hacking Attack (2019) - Indicted Artem Radchenko and Oleksandr Ieremenko for a large-scale, international conspiracy to hack into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system and profit by trading on critical information they stole.
- Fort Dix Six (2007) - Conviction of group of six radical Islamist men allegedly plotting attack on Fort Dix military base[6]
- Fort Lee lane closure scandal (2014)
- Cornelius Gallagher - Guilty plea of New Jersey Congressman for tax evasion[7]
- 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[8]
- Robert C. Janiszewski (2002) - Guilty plea of Hudson County Executive for tax evasion and bribery[9]
- 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[10]
- Hemant Lakhani (2005) - Conviction of black market arms dealer attempting to sell shoulder-fired missiles[11]
- Gene Levoff (2019) - indicted former Corporate secretary and Director of corporate law at Apple Inc. for orchestrating a five-year insider trading scheme.
- John A. Lynch, Jr. - Guilty plea of former president of New Jersey Senate for mail fraud and tax evasion[12]
- Newark Violent Crime Initiative (VCI) (2018-2020) - awarded an Attorney General’s Award in October 2019 as the model for cooperative law enforcement among federal, state, county and city agencies. The VCI led to a 30 percent reduction in the number of shooting victims city-wide between 2017 and 2018 and another 39 percent decline in 2019. In 2020, a year in which violent crime spiked in various places across the country, Newark maintained the same low in the number of murders.
- Novartis/Alcon (2020) - Two deferred prosecution agreements regarding significant violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at Greek and Vietnamese subsidiaries of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, resulting in penalties of $345 million, representing the second largest criminal and regulatory fine imposed against pharmaceutical companies under the FCPA.
- 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
- Operation Brace Yourself (2019) - Investigation and prosecution of sweeping durable medical equipment kickback schemes that resulted in the largest healthcare fraud takedown yet pursued by the Department.
- Purdue Pharma (2020) - prosecution of opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma L.P. for three felonies, including conspiracy to defraud the DEA and Anti-Kickback Statute violations—for its gross misconduct in misbranding and mismarketing OxyContin that amounted to over $8 billion in penalties.
- Samsam Ransomware (2018) - Indicted two Iranians—Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri—for conducting the largest ransomware attack in the U.S. that crippled institutions in New Jersey and elsewhere.
- 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[13]
- 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.[14]
- Thomas J. Whelan - Conviction of mayor of Jersey City on conspiracy, bribery and extortion charges
- Woodcliff Lake (2018) - Filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Borough of Woodcliff Lake for violations of RLUIPA resulting from the Borough’s efforts to prevent an Orthodox Jewish congregation from building a new place of worship.
Prominent officeholders[]
![Chris Christie](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Chris_Christie_April_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Chris_Christie_April_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Prominent assistant US attorneys
- Samuel Alito - Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
- - Partner, Arch & Goodwin, Newark, N.J.
- 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 - Former Governor of New Jersey
- John Farmer Jr. - Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey
- Joseph Greenaway - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third Circuit
- Gurbir Grewal - Former Bergen County Prosecutor and current Attorney General of New Jersey
- 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[]
U.S. Attorney | Term Started | Term Ended | Presidents served under | |
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Richard Stockton | ![]() |
1789 | 1791 | George Washington |
Abraham Ogden | ![]() |
1791 | 1798 | George Washington and John Adams |
Lucius Horatio Stockton | 1798 | 1801 | John Adams | |
Frederick Frelinghuysen | ![]() |
1801 | 1801 | John Adams |
George C. Maxwell | 1801 | 1803 | Thomas Jefferson | |
William S. Pennington | ![]() |
1803 | 1804 | Thomas Jefferson |
Joseph McIlvaine | ![]() |
1804 | 1824 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe |
Lucius Q.C. Elmer | ![]() |
1824 | 1829 | James Monroe, John Quincy Adams |
Garret D. Wall | ![]() |
1829 | 1835 | Andrew Jackson |
James S. Green | 1835 | 1850 | Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison , John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor | |
William Halstead | ![]() |
1850 | 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
Garret S. Cannon | 1853 | 1861 | Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan | |
Anthony Q. Keasbey | ![]() |
1861 | 1886 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland |
Job H. Lippincott | ![]() |
1886 | 1887 | Grover Cleveland |
Samuel F. Bigelow | ![]() |
1887 | 1888 | Grover Cleveland |
George S. Duryee | 1888 | 1890 | Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison | |
Henry S. White | ![]() |
1890 | 1894 | Benjamin Harrisonand Grover Cleveland |
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1894 | 1896 | Grover Cleveland | |
1896 | 1900 | Grover Cleveland and William McKinley | ||
David Ogden Watkins | ![]() |
1900 | 1903 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt |
1903 | 1903 | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
John Beam Vreeland | ![]() |
1903 | 1913 | Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft |
J. Warren Davis | ![]() |
1913 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson |
Charles Francis Lynch | ![]() |
1916 | 1919 | Woodrow Wilson |
Joseph L. Bodine | ![]() |
1919 | 1920 | Woodrow Wilson |
Elmer H. Geran | ![]() |
1920 | 1922 | Woodrow Wilson and Warren Harding |
Walter G. Winne | 1922 | 1928 | Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge | |
Phillip Forman | ![]() |
1928 | 1932 | Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover |
1932 | 1935 | Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
1935 | 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
William Francis Smith | ![]() |
1940 | 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1941 | 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
Thorn Lord | 1943 | 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Edgar H. Rossbach | 1945 | 1948 | Harry Truman | |
1948 | 1948 | Harry Truman | ||
Alfred E. Modarelli | ![]() |
1948 | 1951 | Harry Truman |
Grover C. Richman, Jr. | 1951 | 1953 | Harry Truman | |
William F. Tompkins | 1953 | 1954 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Raymond Del Tufo, Jr. | 1954 | 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
1956 | 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||
Chester A. Weidenburner | 1956 | 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
David M. Satz, Jr. | 1961 | 1969 | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Donald Horowitz | 1969 | 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon | |
Frederick B. Lacey | ![]() |
1969 | 1971 | Richard Nixon |
Herbert J. Stern | ![]() |
1971 | 1974 | Richard Nixon |
Jonathan L. Goldstein | 1974 | 1977 | Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford | |
Robert J. Del Tufo | 1977 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter | |
William W. Robertson | 1980 | 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
W. Hunt Dumont | 1981 | 1985 | Ronald Reagan | |
Thomas W. Greelish | 1985 | 1987 | Ronald Reagan | |
Samuel Alito | ![]() |
1987 | 1990 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush |
Michael Chertoff | ![]() |
1990 | 1994 | George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton |
Faith S. Hochberg | 1994 | 1999 | Bill Clinton | |
Robert J. Cleary | 1999 | 2002 | Bill Clinton and George W. Bush | |
Christopher J. Christie | ![]() |
2002 | 2008 | George W. Bush |
Ralph J. Marra, Jr. | 2008 | 2009 | George W. Bush and Barack Obama | |
Paul J. Fishman | 2009 | 2017 | Barack Obama and Donald Trump | |
2017 | 2018 | Donald Trump | ||
Craig Carpenito | ![]() |
2018 | 2021 | Donald Trump |
Rachael A. Honig | 2021 | Present | Donald Trump and |
References[]
- ^ United States Attorney Craig Carpenito Announces his Resignation, Effective January 5, 2021
- ^ Office Organization, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Serving the District of New Jersey, U.S. Attorney's Office
- ^ New Jersey Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year: Chris Christie, , December 27, 2006.
- ^ New Jersey Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year: Chris Christie, , December 27, 2006.
- ^ 5 Are Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix, The New York Times, December 22, 2008.
- ^ Paul Hoffman, Tiger in the Court, Playboy Press, 1979, p. 276.
- ^ Former Mayor Guilty of Fraud in Newark Sales, The New York Times, April 17, 2008.
- ^ Former Hudson County Leader Gets 41 Months in Corruption Case, The New York Times, March 25, 2005.
- ^ Major Donor Admits Hiring Prostitute to Smear Witness, The New York Times, August 19, 2004.
- ^ Man Accused of a Scheme to Sell Missiles Praised bin Laden on Tapes, The New York Times, January 9, 2005.
- ^ Ex-Leader of New Jersey Senate is Guilty of Corruption, The New York Times, September 16, 2006.
- ^ Robert Rudolph, The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds
- ^ New Jersey Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year: Chris Christie, , December 27, 2006.
External links[]
- United States Attorneys for the District of New Jersey
- New Jersey law
- New Jersey lawyers
- Newark, New Jersey
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Camden, New Jersey
- Prosecution