New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman’s top deputy will likely be an ex-prosecutor from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case, The Star-Ledger reported this week.
Paul Fishman (Friedman, Kaplan, Seiler & Adelman)
J. Gilmore Childers, who handled high-profile terrorism cases as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is expected to be named as the next First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Newark-based U.S. Attorney’s office. Currently, he is an in-house counsel for Goldman Sachs.
“He is one of the most talented and most respected prosecutors around,” Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security, told The Star-Ledger.
Fishman is also expected to name Michael Martinez, a special counsel at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York, as his Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, according to the newspaper. Martinez previously served as a New Jersey Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2000 to 2008. Read more about him here.
The U.S. Attorney’s office hasn’t made the leadership changes public and Fishman declined to comment to The Star-Ledger.
Childers and Martinez would succeed two former prosecutors who have been tapped for state posts by newly elected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who preceded Fishman as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
Former First Assistant U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra, who became acting U.S. Attorney in December 2008 when Christie resigned to run for governor, was nominated last week to be the chief attorney for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. And former Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Larkins was named executive director of the New Jersey School Development Authority Board.
