Trump's Favorite for Wall Street Cop: A Ferris Bueller Prototype Who Angered Chicago Feds
- McNally was U.S. Attorney when he testified as defense witness
- Favorite has ties to Trump, Giuliani -- and Ferris Bueller
Edward McNally, in 2006.
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President Donald Trump’s leading candidate to run the nation’s most prestigious prosecutor’s office infuriated government lawyers a decade ago by testifying as a defense witness for a former Illinois governor facing U.S. corruption charges.
It was a bizarre spectacle because the witness, Edward E. McNally, was then the top federal prosecutor in southern Illinois and criticized the work of his colleagues in Chicago. On the witness stand, McNally raised questions about the conduct of an FBI agent and prosecutors during a 2001 interview with the ex-governor, George Ryan, whom McNally had previously represented as a private attorney.