Lev Parnas Attorney...Joseph Bondy
Jan 24, 2020 22:34:16 GMT -5
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Post by Drifter on Jan 24, 2020 22:34:16 GMT -5
An interesting background on this attorney...
His twitter feed is also interesting viewing...
twitter.com/josephabondy
Bondy’s highest-profile clients in the past have been convicted mobsters like Peter Gotti, the older brother of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, and Louis Eppolito, a New York cop who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering several people for the Lucchese crime family. (He bonded with Eppolito in particular over their mutual love of reptiles and their respective snake collections, Bondy told The New York Times for a profile in 2006.)
The 52-year-old father of three studied psychology at Columbia and applied to Brooklyn Law School only to get his mom off his case, he says. When she first suggested he apply to law school, he retorted: “Fine, I’ll become a lawyer for the Mafia,” he recalls, hoping it would deter her. It had the opposite effect: She encouraged him to apply to Brooklyn, “where all the best mob lawyers went,” he recalls her saying.
He jokes about it now, but Bondy insists he’s no mob lawyer.
“I’ve represented about 1,000 people and maybe 5 were made men in the Mafia,” Bondy said. “That’s not really how I define myself.”
He met his future wife on the first day of classes—she is a media attorney who most recently worked for HBO—and still remembers the constitutional law class he took with the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia while studying abroad at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
In college, he interned at the New York State Office of the Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau and Federal Defenders in Eastern District of New York—an “eye-opening” experience that exposed him to the “despair” of people who can’t afford lawyers, he says.
“We all have so many beautiful things about us in our lives,” Bondy says. “And the good transcends the bad. We’ve all transgressed. We’ve all made mistakes.”
Bondy’s next project wasn’t exactly for an underdog. After graduating, he began working with defense lawyers for one of the Colombian Medellin cartel’s top “sicarios,” or assassins—Dandeny Munoz Mosquera, better known as “La Quica,” who was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in 1995 for his role in the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jetliner that killed all 107 people aboard, including two Americans.
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/24/joseph-bondy-lev-parnas-attorney-104004
The 52-year-old father of three studied psychology at Columbia and applied to Brooklyn Law School only to get his mom off his case, he says. When she first suggested he apply to law school, he retorted: “Fine, I’ll become a lawyer for the Mafia,” he recalls, hoping it would deter her. It had the opposite effect: She encouraged him to apply to Brooklyn, “where all the best mob lawyers went,” he recalls her saying.
He jokes about it now, but Bondy insists he’s no mob lawyer.
“I’ve represented about 1,000 people and maybe 5 were made men in the Mafia,” Bondy said. “That’s not really how I define myself.”
He met his future wife on the first day of classes—she is a media attorney who most recently worked for HBO—and still remembers the constitutional law class he took with the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia while studying abroad at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
In college, he interned at the New York State Office of the Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau and Federal Defenders in Eastern District of New York—an “eye-opening” experience that exposed him to the “despair” of people who can’t afford lawyers, he says.
“We all have so many beautiful things about us in our lives,” Bondy says. “And the good transcends the bad. We’ve all transgressed. We’ve all made mistakes.”
Bondy’s next project wasn’t exactly for an underdog. After graduating, he began working with defense lawyers for one of the Colombian Medellin cartel’s top “sicarios,” or assassins—Dandeny Munoz Mosquera, better known as “La Quica,” who was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms in 1995 for his role in the 1989 bombing of an Avianca jetliner that killed all 107 people aboard, including two Americans.
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/24/joseph-bondy-lev-parnas-attorney-104004
twitter.com/josephabondy
