A case of let sleeping dogs lie?A close friend – whom he once defended in Court – is Michael Milken. Milken was indicted for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 in an insider trading investigation. As the result of a plea bargain, he pled guilty to securities and reporting violations….but not to racketeering or insider trading. Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $600 million, and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Another high-profile defendant he helped avoid jail was US-born conman and religious fraudster Kirtanananda Swami. Alan didn’t contest evidence that Kirtanananda had abused minors…he merely said the jury’s knowledge of this had biased the jury against him.
Dershowitz defended Mike Tyson against rape charges, and lost. However, he did get TV evangelist fraudster Jim Bakker’s 45 year jail sentence reduced. Bakker had kept $3.4 million in bonuses for himself from viewer contributions, and organised a $279,000 payoff to Jessica Hahn as hush-money about raping her. Also of course, in his most famous defence involvement, Alan Dershowitz got O J Simpson off a premeditated murder charge….a decision that the later 1997 civil trial effectively reversed, the jury finding there was ‘a preponderance of evidence to hold Simpson liable for damages for wrongful death’.. On February 21, 2008, a Los Angeles court upheld a renewal of the civil judgment against him.
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