Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including such clients as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, a co-defendant of Michael Milken, former New York State Assembly Speaker, Mel Miller, Russell Crowe, and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, In...
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Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including such clients as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, a co-defendant of Michael Milken, former New York State Assembly Speaker, Mel Miller, Russell Crowe, and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. Mr. Lefcourt is currently one of the attorneys in the federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States.
Mr. Lefcourt graduated Brooklyn Law School, class of 1967, and heads a four-lawyer firm in New York City that specializes in criminal defense. Considered one of the nation's best trial lawyers and a leading spokesman of the defense bar, he is past President of the National Association of...
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