The U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On December 16,2021,Philip R. Sellinger was sworn in as U.S. Attorney. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney.
Ronald L. Rice was an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1986 to 2022. He represented the 28th Legislative District. Rice is one of the longest-serving state senators in New Jersey history.
Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey,a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013,and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.
William E. Baroni Jr. is an American Republican Party politician and law professor. He represented the 14th legislative district in the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly. In 2010,New Jersey Governor Chris Christie named Baroni to serve as the Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
William D. Payne is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 until 2008 where he represented the 29th legislative district. He served as the Assembly's Deputy Majority Conference Leader from 2002-2008.
William John Martini is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey,having been in active service from November 14,2002,to February 10,2015. Martini is one of 24 judges seated on the New Jersey District Court,and his highest profile case to date was the corruption trial for former Newark Mayor Sharpe James.
Kenneth Allen Gibson was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the 36th mayor of Newark,New Jersey from 1970 to 1986. He was the first African American mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States.
Street Fight is a 2005 documentary film by Marshall Curry,chronicling the 2002 Newark mayoral election which pitted upstart Cory Booker against the incumbent Sharpe James for Mayor of Newark,New Jersey. Other credits include Rory Kennedy,Liz Garbus,Mary Manhardt,Marisa Karplus,Catherine Jones,and Adam Etline. Street Fight screened at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and was later aired on the PBS series P.O.V. on July 5,2005,and CBC Newsworld in Canada on May 7,2006. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Gregory Paw served as the Director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice from February 21,2006 to June 20,2008. Paw succeeded Vaughn McCoy as Director,and was succeeded as Director by Deborah Gramiccioni,with whom he had worked closely while she was a special assistant to the New Jersey Attorney General. Paw is now a partner in the law firm of Pepper Hamilton,practicing white collar criminal defense and corporate compliance in the firm's Princeton and Philadelphia offices.
Maria Teresa Ruiz is an American Democratic Party politician,who has represented the 29th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate since taking office on January 8,2008. She has served as the Senate Majority Leader since 2022,becoming the first Latina to lead either the Assembly or Senate,after succeeding Loretta Weinberg upon her retirement from the Senate.
William Vincent Musto was an American Democratic politician who was sentenced to prison for corruption. He was the Mayor of Union City,New Jersey,from 1962 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1982. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1947 to 1966 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1966 to 1982. The New York Times called him a "charismatic and visionary force" in New Jersey politics for decades.
James William Treffinger is a former disbarred American lawyer and Republican Party politician who served as County Executive of Essex County,New Jersey from 1995 to 2003. He pleaded guilty to federal charges of obstruction of justice and mail fraud in 2003.
The Federal Correctional Complex,Petersburg is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Petersburg,Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Petersburg is a United States federal prison for low- and medium-security male inmates. It is part of the Petersburg Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Virginia and operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders. FCI Petersburg consists of two facilities:
The 2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey was held on October 16,2013,to fill the New Jersey United States Senate Class 2 seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3,2015. The vacancy resulted from the death of 5-term Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg on June 3,2013. On June 4,2013,New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced that a primary election to fill the vacancy would take place on August 13,2013,and that a special election would follow on October 16,2013. Christie appointed Republican New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to the seat as a placeholder;Chiesa announced at the time of his appointment that he would not be a candidate in the special election.
The 2014 Newark mayoral election took place in Newark,the most populous city in New Jersey,on May 13,2014. The race was characterized as a contest between two candidates,Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries,both from Newark's South Ward. Elections for all seats on the nine member Municipal Council of Newark also took place. Luis A. Quintana,who had become Mayor of Newark following the resignation of Cory Booker,did not seek the seat.
Jackie R. Mattison is an American Democratic politician and convicted felon who served in the New Jersey General Assembly. He was chief of staff to Newark Mayor Sharpe James from 1986 until his conviction for bribery in 1997.
The 2006 election for Mayor of Newark took place in Newark,the most populous city in the state of New Jersey,on May 9,2006. Newark is organized under the Faulkner Act. Elections for all seats on the nine member Municipal Council of Newark were held the same day. A runoff election,if necessary,would have taken place. Elections in the city are non-partisan and candidates are not listed by political party.
The 1970 Newark mayoral election was held on June 16,1970. Incumbent mayor Hugh Addonizio ran for a third term in office but was defeated by civil engineer Kenneth A. Gibson. Gibson became the first black man elected mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States or Eastern Seaboard.
