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Edward McNally, a former federal prosecutor and lawyer for Ford at Kasowitz Benson Torres, described how the alleged scheme worked in an emailed statement.

“A Man of No Importance,” an off-Broadway musical based on the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney as a Dublin bus conductor with an obsession for Oscar Wilde and a yen for amateur theatricals, was a natural fit for playwright Terrence McNally, the bard of lonely city dwellers with conflicted longings.

“A Man of No Importance” is a love letter to the stage, yet another reason McNally was the ideal man for the job.

Joseph McNally wrote in the email.

McNally had been serving as acting U.S. attorney since Martin E. Estrada, a Biden appointee, resigned in January.