Steinhardt to be U.S. Attorney
POLITICS. The state senator has been the part-time Sussex County attorney since June 2021.
| 26 Jan 2025 | 11:38
State Sen. Douglas Steinhardt, R-23, speaks at the launch of Project Self-Sufficiency’s annual Season of Hope toy drive Oct. 25 in Newton. (File photo by Kathy Shwiff)
State Sen. Douglas Steinhardt, R-23, is expected to be the next U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Steinhardt, 56, has served as the part-time Sussex County attorney since June 2021. He is a partner in the law firm of Florio Perrucci Steinhardt Cappelli Tipton & Taylor.
He was unopposed in a special election convention for the state Senate in December 2022 after Michael Doherty retired, leaving the seat vacant. Steinhardt won a full term in 2023.
He was mayor of Lopatcong Township in Warren County for five terms and chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from 2017 to 2020.
Steinhardt would replace Vikas Khanna, who has been the acting U.S. Attorney since Philip Sellinger resigned effective Jan. 8.
Sellinger, who held the office for three years, cited among his accomplishments a decline in shootings and murders in New Jersey, creating the first standalone Civil Rights Division at any U.S. Attorney’s Office, and leading the investigation of TD Bank’s failure to prevent money laundering networks from using the bank. That investigation ended with TD Bank’s guilty plea to violating the Bank Secrecy Act and conspiring to commit money laundering, resulting in more than $1.8 billion in criminal penalties.