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Posted by Fickled Finger of Fate on January 12, 2005 at 13:34:41:

Gee where did we here this before?

1991 prosecution of McCann part of nominee's rise to top

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

By Jason Fink
Journal staff writer

Former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann once famously suggested that he could get Michael Chertoff - the U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted him for bank fraud 13 years ago - a job driving a garbage truck for the Jersey City Incinerator Authority.

Last week, McCann, who has remained a polarizing political figure in the years since he left prison, was fired from his job as special projects manager from that very same JCIA.

Yesterday, Chertoff was nominated by President Bush to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a major career boost for a man who must now be considered one of the ris- ing stars in the federal government.

As political fortunes go, the two could hardly be farther apart.

When their paths crossed in a federal courtroom more than a decade ago, both appeared to take their roles as adversaries personally, at times flinging insults at one another.

McCann, a brash, confidant man schooled in the bare-knuckled world of Jersey City politics who inspires fierce loyalty in his supporters, has tried to run for public office more than once since he was forced out as mayor following his 1991 conviction.

Barred by a judge from the ballot for mayor in 2001 because of his fraud conviction and defeated in a race for Hudson County freeholder in 2003, McCann is now a close ally of Democratic Assemblyman Lou Manzo, who ran unsuccessfully for Jersey City mayor in November.

Appointed to the JCIA by his rival-turned-ally Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, who died in office last May, McCann's fortunes sagged when Jerramiah Healy was elected to replace Cunningham. McCann, who declined to comment for this article, was accused of some particularly nasty campaigning against Healy and was axed from the JCIA last week, his political future now uncertain.

Chertoff, meanwhile, a Republican, has thrived as a prosecutor and a judge. He was appointed by Bush first to head the Justice Department's Criminal Division and then to the federal appeals court in Philadelphia. First appointed U.S. attorney by the current President Bush's father, Chertoff made a name for himself by stepping into federal court and personally trying the McCann case.

There was never any love lost between the two, with McCann making his garbage truck comment and Chertoff accusing him in court of diverting $300,000 in business loans from a Florida savings and loan to pay personal expenses, including credit card bills, a Mercedes-Benz, furs and rare coins.

At McCann's June 1992 sentencing, Chertoff told the judge that the former mayor had shown "not a scrap of remorse" for his actions, according to news accounts from the time. "He violated his trust, he obstructed justice and he phonied up tax returns," Chertoff said at the time.

McCann was convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion unrelated to his time in office, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

The crimes for which he was convicted occurred in 1986, between his stints as mayor, from 1981 to 1985 and from 1989 until he was ousted in 1991.

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: 1991 prosecution of McCann part of nominee's rise to top

: Wednesday, January 12, 2005

: By Jason Fink
: Journal staff writer

: Former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann once famously suggested that he could get Michael Chertoff - the U.S. attorney who successfully prosecuted him for bank fraud 13 years ago - a job driving a garbage truck for the Jersey City Incinerator Authority.

: Last week, McCann, who has remained a polarizing political figure in the years since he left prison, was fired from his job as special projects manager from that very same JCIA.

: Yesterday, Chertoff was nominated by President Bush to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a major career boost for a man who must now be considered one of the ris- ing stars in the federal government.

: As political fortunes go, the two could hardly be farther apart.

: When their paths crossed in a federal courtroom more than a decade ago, both appeared to take their roles as adversaries personally, at times flinging insults at one another.

: McCann, a brash, confidant man schooled in the bare-knuckled world of Jersey City politics who inspires fierce loyalty in his supporters, has tried to run for public office more than once since he was forced out as mayor following his 1991 conviction.

: Barred by a judge from the ballot for mayor in 2001 because of his fraud conviction and defeated in a race for Hudson County freeholder in 2003, McCann is now a close ally of Democratic Assemblyman Lou Manzo, who ran unsuccessfully for Jersey City mayor in November.

: Appointed to the JCIA by his rival-turned-ally Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, who died in office last May, McCann's fortunes sagged when Jerramiah Healy was elected to replace Cunningham. McCann, who declined to comment for this article, was accused of some particularly nasty campaigning against Healy and was axed from the JCIA last week, his political future now uncertain.

: Chertoff, meanwhile, a Republican, has thrived as a prosecutor and a judge. He was appointed by Bush first to head the Justice Department's Criminal Division and then to the federal appeals court in Philadelphia. First appointed U.S. attorney by the current President Bush's father, Chertoff made a name for himself by stepping into federal court and personally trying the McCann case.

: There was never any love lost between the two, with McCann making his garbage truck comment and Chertoff accusing him in court of diverting $300,000 in business loans from a Florida savings and loan to pay personal expenses, including credit card bills, a Mercedes-Benz, furs and rare coins.

: At McCann's June 1992 sentencing, Chertoff told the judge that the former mayor had shown "not a scrap of remorse" for his actions, according to news accounts from the time. "He violated his trust, he obstructed justice and he phonied up tax returns," Chertoff said at the time.

: McCann was convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion unrelated to his time in office, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

: The crimes for which he was convicted occurred in 1986, between his stints as mayor, from 1981 to 1985 and from 1989 until he was ousted in 1991.

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