It's a Christie vs. Giuliani fight to pick Trump's next U.S. attorney for N.J.
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TRENTON -- Who will be New Jersey's next U.S. attorney?
President Donald Trump is deciding between one of Gov. Chris Christie's criminal defense attorneys and another high-powered Jersey-based lawyer at a New York firm connected to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, according to a source with direct knowledge of the process.
Vying for the coveted job are Craig Carpenito, who defended the governor during the Bridgegate scandal and its fallout, and Geoffrey Berman, who runs the New Jersey office of the New York law firm Greenberg Traurig, where Giuliani is global chair of its cybersecurity and crisis management practices.
The candidates' dueling mentors reveal an across-the-Hudson struggle for Trump's ear.
The governor is a longtime friend of the president and despite his ouster as transition planning chief still speaks to him frequently and advises him on many matters.
Giuliani was an early Trump surrogate, has a relationship with Berman that stretches back decades, to when he was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Berman an assistant U.S. attorney.
Giuliani, Berman and Carpenito declined to comment Tuesday.
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