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. 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. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney.
The Office is organized into divisions handling civil, criminal, and appellate matters, in addition to the Special Prosecutions Division, which oversees political corruption investigations. 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. 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.
Hugh Addonizio - Conviction of former Newark mayor on conspiracy and extortion chargesAndrew '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 fraudWalter Forbes - Conviction of former chairman of Cendant Corporation for fraud.Fort Dix Six (2007) - Conviction of group of six radical Islamist men allegedly plotting attack on Fort Dix military baseCornelius Gallagher - Guilty plea of New Jersey Congressman for tax evasionNelson G. Gross - Conviction of former Republican state chairman on perjury and obstruction of justice chargesSharpe James (2008) - Conviction of former Newark mayor on corruption chargesRobert C. Janiszewski (2002) - Guilty plea of Hudson County Executive for tax evasion and briberyJohn V. Kenny - Conviction of former Jersey City mayor and chairman of Hudson County Democratic Party on conspiracy, bribery, and extortion chargesCharles 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 caseHemant Lakhani (2005) - Conviction of black market arms dealer attempting to sell shoulder-fired missilesJohn A. Lynch, Jr. - Guilty plea of former president of New Jersey Senate for mail fraud and tax evasionOperation 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 VegaSarah Brockington Bost (2002), Mayor of Irvington, New JerseyMartin Taccetta & Michael Taccetta (1987) - Unsuccessful prosecution of high-ranking members of The Jersey Crew, a faction of the Lucchese crime familyUMDNJ (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.Thomas J. Whelan - Conviction of mayor of Jersey City on conspiracy, bribery and extortion chargesFort Lee lane closure scandal (2014)Samuel Alito, Jr. - Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme CourtMaryanne Trump Barry - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third CircuitJohn Winslow Bissell - U.S. District Court JudgeMatthew Boxer - Comptroller, State of New JerseyGarrett Brown, Jr. - U.S. District Court JudgeRenee Bumb - U.S. District Court JudgeMichael Chagares - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third CircuitMichael Chertoff - Former Secretary, Department of Homeland SecurityStanley R. Chesler - U.S. District Court JudgeChristopher J. Christie - Governor of New JerseyJohn Farmer Jr. - Former Attorney General, State of New JerseyJoseph Greenaway - U.S. Circuit Court Judge, Third CircuitPeter C. Harvey - Former Attorney General, State of New JerseyKatharine Hayden - U.S. District Court JudgeNoel Hillman - U.S. District Court Judge; Former Chief, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of JusticeRichard Hughes - Former Governor of New Jersey; Former Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme CourtDavid Lat - Blogger, Underneath their Robes and Above the LawWilliam Martini - U.S. District Court Judge; Former Congressman (NJ-8)Stuart Rabner - Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme CourtJerome Simandle - U.S. District Court JudgeHerbert Stern - former U.S. District Court Judge; former federal monitor, UMDNJ Medicaid fraud investigationRichard 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)
