Letter may hold key to former prosecutor Jay Fahy’s suicide
Saturday, July 27, 2013 Last updated: Saturday July 27, 2013, 11:58 PM
BY STEPHANIE AKIN AND CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
It may have been Jay Fahy’s last secret.
Nearly two weeks before the former Bergen County and federal prosecutor committed suicide, a staff member in his law office inadvertently opened a letter addressed to Fahy, marked personal and confidential.
It was a shocker: The New Jersey Supreme Court was about to temporarily suspend his license to practice law because of a billing dispute.
His law partner tried repeatedly to contact him, but received no reply. And Fahy stopped coming to the office — except for one late-night visit, after everyone had left, when he dropped off some papers and removed mail from a chair, said Joe Orlando, a longtime friend who is acting as a spokesman for both the family and the firm.
The contents of that letter, and Fahy’s uncharacteristically evasive response to it, may offer the clearest clue to date of why Fahy — a normally ebullient personality who was cracking jokes with friends up until the end — shot himself on a Route 17 walkway on the afternoon of July 17.
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