Ex-doorman's crucial clout Prosecutor from B'klyn key to case vs. Prez's

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/356835p-303999c.html

BY DENIS HAMILL
DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST


U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is regarded as an incorruptible workaholic.

A former doorman from Brooklyn now holds in his hands the fate of two of the most powerful men in America and possibly the future of the George W. Bush presidency.
This might be the heaviest door Patrick Fitzgerald Jr. from Flatbush ever held.

The son of two immigrants from County Clare, Ireland, Fitzgerald, 44, the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has come a long way since the days when he attended Our Lady Help of Christians grammar school on E. 29th St. (now defunct) and played accordion with his brother as his two sisters did Irish stepdancing.

While attending Regis High School, and later Amherst College, Fitzgerald worked summers and part-time "holding the door" at a luxury high-rise on E. 72nd St. At Amherst, he also took a campus maintenance job...

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1. Oh, all this and he's Irish too?

My Irish eyes are smiling :) How lovely, how poetic, the Irish save civilization, again! HA! This makes me happy :)

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2. Glad he isn't still a doorman saying "You think you're better than me?" to

people.