It's always a good sign when someone with day-to-day exposure to the realities of the criminal justice system gets a voice in a body as powerful as the US Senate. Today, Gov. Chris Christie, himself a former US Attorney, appointed his one-time chief adviser in the USAO, Jeff Chiesa, to serve as the interim Senator from New Jersey, taking the seat of the late Frank Lautenberg.
I don't know Mr. Chiesa, but I'm glad to see a fellow former AUSA in Congress. No doubt he'll talk some sense into Pat Leahy and Rand Paul.
OK, that last part was a joke, but I'm still glad to see his promotion.
Mr. Chiesa, who is presently New Jersey's Attorney General, has this biography listed on the Office's website:
Too brief, though. He is not running in the special election.
To talk sense into Leahy he would have to be there ... well, we don't know how long because it's never been done.