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Naturally, reporters pleaded with Fitzgerald to reveal more: What would he do next? When would he be satisfied? Listening to each question, Fitzgerald leaned forward, chin tilted up, as if he were eager to help. Then, as he always has, he politely declined to elaborate, citing legal constraints. "You're reading tea leaves. Don't," he advised. "I don't draw a very good tea leaf...
...years as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and four years as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald has said very little about his personal life or his politics. He is not the kind of lawyer who wants a lot of attention, unusual as that may be. But his record speaks for him. Fitzgerald has a long history of doing exactly as he did in this case. He works harder than God; he can be creative (sometimes controversially so) in his application of the law; and he does not tolerate being lied to. "He comes...
Like so many other Americans who work 100-hour weeks, Fitzgerald was born to immigrants. Patrick Sr. and Tillie Fitzgerald, both of County Clare, Ireland, raised four children in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Patrick Sr. was a doorman in Manhattan at a building on East 75th Street, just off Madison Avenue, and he rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship...
...while, Fitzgerald approached every task, even his job as a janitor at Amherst, as if it were a mission. "I know this sounds like malarkey, but if he were not a prosecutor, he'd be a priest," says Richard Phelan, a Chicago lawyer and friend of Fitzgerald's. "He's totally and completely dedicated...
Still, it would be misleading to caricature Fitzgerald as a humorless social misfit. It's true that he lacks certain domestic skills; for years, he famously piled reams of papers on the nonworking stove in his New York apartment. But he was also the one called on to roast departing colleagues and could always be counted on to join raucous beer drinking after a game of rugby or baseball...