Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure

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MR. ROSENBLUM: He is not personally supervising anything to do with this case.

THE COURT: The office, I’m talking about.

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4 current office that you work at, the folks that you will

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represent are running it, that are the leaders of the U.S. Attorneys Office that are operating it, is the exact same triumvirate, Ms. Fox and Mr. Lamparello and Mr. Fontecchio,
the same triumvirate that Judge Brann ruled was unlawful,

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MR. ROSENBLUM: Correct, Your Honor.

THE COURT: Okay.

All right. Well, I’m going require their testimony, as

I directed before. I’m going to schedule a hearing in two

14 weeks. I will determine the date and time later this

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afternoon. I will text order it, but I’m going to require the testimony of this triumvirate. So all three, Ms. Fox, Mr. Lamparello, and Mr. Fontecchio will testify. They will be sequestered. Just to be clear, they will be sequestered.
19 They will not be sitting in this courtroom listening to each 20 other testify, and they’re going to answer my questions about who is running this office and how.

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And then we will have a proper factual record, I believe, for me to then determine if I need legal briefing on how you can proceed with this sentencing hearing, or I might be able to just make the determination after I have that

United States District Court
District of New Jersey