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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/politics/15JUST.html
March 15, 2001
Bush Chooses Chief for Federal Prosecutions
By DAVID JOHNSTON
WASHINGTON, March 14 ó President Bush today named Michael
Chertoff, formerly chief Republican counsel of the Senate's
Whitewater inquiry and United States attorney in New Jersey, to
head the Justice Department's criminal division, a powerful post
that would place him in charge of all federal prosecutions.
If confirmed, Mr. Chertoff would oversee a broad portfolio of
criminal cases, including terrorism and bank robbery. He would
play a significant role in decisions relating to official
corruption cases, including any prosecution that might arise from
the 177 pardons and commutations that President Bill Clinton
granted on his final day in office.
In recent years, Mr. Chertoff has switched from being a
prosecutor to being a defense lawyer in private practice at the
firm of Latham Watkins in Newark.
At the same time, Mr. Chertoff has been special counsel to a New
Jersey State Senate committee that has examined inmate release
policies of the state's corrections system and accusations of
racial profiling by the New Jersey State Police.
In 1995, Mr. Chertoff played a major role in Senate hearings into
the Arkansas business dealings of Mr. Clinton and his wife,
Hillary.
Mr. Chertoff, 47, the son of a rabbi and a gallery owner, is
married with two children. A former clerk for Justice William J.
Brennan of the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Chertoff
graduated from Harvard Law School and spent more than a decade as
a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and New York.
In New York, he was the lead federal prosecutor in 1986 when the
government won convictions against Mafia bosses in a case that
some law enforcement officials described as a Waterloo for the
New York Mafia.
Mr. Chertoff successfully prosecuted Mayor Gerald McCann of
Jersey City in 1991 for fraud and tax evasion, and a consumer
electronics retailer, Eddie Antar, known as Crazy Eddie, for
racketeering and fraud in 1993.
One of Mr. Chertoff's better- known cases was the prosecution of
Sol Wachtler, a chief judge of the New York State Court of
Appeals, who was arrested in 1992 on charges of harassing and
attempting to extort his ex-lover. Mr. Wachtler pleaded guilty to
kidnapping threats.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that he had started to
replace the Clinton administration's 93 United States attorneys
with Bush appointees, which Mr. Ashcroft said would be completed
by June.
Asked about Mary Jo White, the federal prosecutor in New York,
Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for Mr. Ashcroft, said Ms. White
would remain on the job indefinitely. The reason, Ms. Tucker
said, is "primarily because of Ms. White's involvement" in the
case of Osama bin Laden, suspected of orchestrating terrorist
acts, and not because of her office's investigation into the
pardons issued by Mr. Clinton.
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