Epstein Secrets

yde and Conyers replied: REP. HYDE: I thank you, Professor Dershowitz. I don't thank you for criticizing the motives, s

apacities, recently told me that before anything involving these issues left his office, Senator Kennedy would tell his staff members, “check it with Alan.” It was high honor and privilege to assist so great a senator on so many occasions. The last time I was him was just months before his death when he

ny real sense that justice in some way had gone astray.” And one commentator snidely observed that Von Bulow’s “recruitment of Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz shortly after his conviction would tend to reinforce” the view that Claus Von Bulow “was no longer protecting his innocence, merely the methods used

his conviction would tend to reinforce” the view that Claus Von Bulow “was no longer protecting his innocence, merely the methods used to catch him...Dershowitz enjoys a wide reputation as a last resort for convicted criminals, being especially keep at finding legal loopholes that render his clients’ convicti

similar efforts would help Sharansky, who faced the more serious charge of spying for an enemy. I had been asked, along with Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler, to represent Sharanksy. The request came from his wife, who was in Israel, and his mother, who lived in Moscow. They had no money to pay for a lawye

t: Last June, barely a week before their brief was due, the Houston lawyers handling Mr. Bakker's appeal, Don Ervin and Brian Wice, learned that Mr. Dershowitz was joining their legal team. He was to handle only a small part of Mr. Bakker's appeal, concerning the 45- year sentence meted out by Judge Robert D

New York Times story was headlined “400 Enroll in a Harvard Course on ‘Law and the Lawyer’ in the Vietnam War.” It reported that: According to Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, who conceived the course, more than a dozen professors have volunteered as teachers, including Prof. Derek C. Bok, the dean-designate of the law sch

t with the Prime Minister. Suddenly a car pulled up. It was the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, whom I knew. He rolled down his window and shouted, “Alan, you’ll never get a cab on a Friday afternoon. Where do you need to go?” I told him and he willingly agreed to drive us there. As I began to get into

ek C. Bok, the dean-designate of the law school. Professor Dershowitz said that the participating professors “reflect e

ented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me, along with my friend and colleague Irwin Cotler, now the Minister of Justice in Canada, to represent Anatoly on a pro-bono basis. We continued to be his lawyer for nearly nine years. We were not al

truck robberies, murdered Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, and were building up their army to overthro

Jewish Politician Foiled in Canada Newsweek (11/20, Mehrara) reported that Canadian security services foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, an 84-year-old Jewish former politician, human-rights advocate, and former justice minister. According to the article, Cotler was warned by the Roy