Gerald Lefcourt

Career

He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Lefcourt is currently one of the attorneys in the federal Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States. Lefcourt graduated Brooklyn Law School, class of 1967, and heads a four-lawyer firm in New York City that specializes in criminal defense.

Lefcourt is also a lecturer and panelist, and has authored publications on legal subjects including asset forfeiture, legal ethics, wire-tapping, plea bargaining, subpoenas to lawyers, and representation of grand jury witnesses.

Achievements

• Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Incorporated. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. 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 Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New York Criminal Bar Association, and a founder of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He was named as among the finest New York trial attorneys by the New York Law Journal"s 1983 "Who"s Who in Criminal Defense Bar", and received the New York State Bar"s Outstanding Practitioner Award in 1985 and 1993, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers" highest honor, the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, in 1993. In 1997 he was presented the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by The New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.