David Wildstein lawyer Alan Zegas the one who ‘could topple Christie’

[DonViejo]

By NJ.com
Sunday, February 23, 2014 7:20 EST

TRENTON --- In 2008, U.S. Attorney Chris Christie was on a tear. His office had won federal corruption convictions against more than 100 New Jersey public officials, and in April, he added a crown jewel with a guilty verdict against Democratic Newark Mayor Sharpe James.

But during sentencing, the boastful Christie was handed a rare rebuke. His office was seeking nearly 20 years in prison for James, who had illegally steered land to his mistress. The federal judge, William Martini, lit into prosecutors for asking for the sentence, calling it “an extreme injustice.”

From the front row, Christie shook his head in apparent disgust. Martini said he would not be “intimidated.” And across the room, soaking it all in from the defense table, was one of the state’s most prominent criminal lawyers: Alan Zegas.

“We felt vindicated by the judge’s comments because it seemed politics did, to some degree, drive the case,” Zegas, 61, said in a recent interview with The Star-Ledger, noting Christie was then the favored Republican prospect for governor.

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