Gerald Willard Weaver II was born on June 15,1958 and is an American author and former lawyer and lobbyist.
25 Facts About Gerald Weaver
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Gerald Weaver was the youngest chief of staff in Congress in 1983, aged 26.
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Gerald Weaver's novel, Gospel Prism, came to light when the American-born British journalist, Marie Colvin died whilst covering the Siege of Homs in Syria, February 22,2012.
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Gerald Weaver's father was a lawyer and his mother worked until he was five before she became a homemaker.
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Gerald Weaver spoke the Sicilian language with his grandmother who was his nanny until he was five.
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Gerald Weaver went on to attend Yale University and the Columbus School of Law.
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Gerald Weaver has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied Fiction Writing under Gordon Lish, who was the fiction editor at Esquire magazine and Raymond Carver's editor.
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Gerald Weaver studied Literature at Yale under the literary critic Harold Bloom.
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Gerald Weaver has a Juris Doctor degree from the Columbus School of Law.
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Gerald Weaver managed his first Congressional campaign in 1982 when Congressman Joseph Kolter appointed Gerald Weaver as his chief of staff, a position he held until May 1987.
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In 1992, Gerald Weaver testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks.
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Gerald Weaver was appointed Vice President of Government Affairs at satellite carrier United Video in 1990.
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Gerald Weaver went on to send each member of the House Judiciary Committee a Monopoly game with a letter stating there was only one Major League Baseball.
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The compulsory licence was ultimately retained by Gerald Weaver for United Video and remains in place.
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Gerald Weaver ran his own lobbying firm, representing Gundle Inc, First Lithotripsy Group, Duquesne Light Company and Zambelli Fireworks, the largest and oldest fireworks display company in the United States.
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Gerald Weaver practiced law in Pennsylvania until 1994 when he was disbarred due to his criminal conviction.
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In 1992 Gerald Weaver was indicted on 22 counts, all but one arising from his involvement in the Congressional Post Office scandal.
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On March 31,1993 Gerald Weaver pleaded guilty, pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement, to one count each of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine.
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Daniel D Rostenkowski, against whom Weaver was a potential witness, created a conflict, Weaver had not shown the necessary prejudice to establish an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.
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Gerald Weaver was given a two-year prison sentence for conspiracy to distribute cocaine on the Hill.
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On learning of Colvin's death, Gerald Weaver is reported to have said he, 'drank for five straight days'.
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On finding him and along with Sean Ryan, then Editor of The Sunday Times, she helped Gerald Weaver to find a publisher.
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Gerald Weaver's second novel, The First First Gentleman, London Wall, August 2016, "is a timely story of the first female President of the United States, an iconoclastic woman who challenges what we know about cultural and political orthodoxies and who may have to breastfeed during her term" of office.
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Gerald Weaver says that his purpose was not to tell a story that corresponds with Clinton herself but to hasten the arrival of what he sees as a tipping point of more females coming into power.
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In 2023, Gerald Weaver released The Girl and the Sword, a historical novel set in the early thirteenth century.