CBS Lawyers Charged in Anti-Semitic RICO Act Conspiracy
CBS Lawyers Charged in Anti-Semitic RICO Act Conspiracy
CBS Lawyers Charged in Anti-Semitic RICO
Act Conspiracy
SKOKIE (CHICAGO) IL, December 17,
2020 – CBS Television Broadcasting Company’s lawyers Debevoise and Plimpton of
New York, are again subject of serious misconduct charges - this time in a
Chicago Anti-Semitic RICO Act conspiracy case. In 2018 CBS Debevoise was placed under scrutiny
for improper handling of confidential witnesses in the Les Moonves sexual
harassment matter [1]. CBS was required to deal with legal fallout after
findings from an internal investigation of sexual misconduct allegations went
public and two major law firms leading the probe faced questions about their
efforts to protect confidential witnesses. For Debevoise & Plimpton, this marks the third
time recently that the firm has been thrust into the spotlight for professional
misconduct [2]. Former federal prosecutor and current Debevoise star Winston M.
Paes is at the nexus of all these multiple instances of misbehavior and now
also, an Anti-Semitic obstruction of justice conspiracy action brought in Cook
County Illinois court under the RICO Act [3].
Forty-three years ago Nazis
marched through Skokie [4], a sleepy northern suburb of Chicago, long a Jewish
enclave. The American Civil Liberties
Union took a controversial stand to defeat local government resistance against
such an affront to its residents of the time, many of whom were Holocaust
survivors. This week, Paes and Debevoise director Baron Peter Henry Goldsmith,
PC QC, a British barrister and a former Attorney General for England, Wales and
Northern Ireland has been charged here in a 19 count Racketeer Influenced
Corrupt Organizations (RICO [5]) Act complaint alleging among other things,
murder and obstruction of justice conspiracies forwarded by Neo-Nazis. The 134-page complaint details for-profit
criminal misconduct carried out in U.S. courts, perpetrated by Goldsmith, an
employee of Goldsmith’s named Winston M. Paes and 29 other defendants, most of
whom reside in Wisconsin, a hive of fringe ultra-right wing activity.
Among
the co-defendants named in the charging document, is Wisconsin circuit judge
Paul Malloy, who disenfranchised 200,000 black Wisconsin voters in January 2020
until the state’s Supreme Court overruled Malloy’s order [6].
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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/media/les-moonves-cbs-report.html?module=inline
[3] Two
methods of viewing court-filed complaint: 1) Email request to: howardleventhal9@gmail.com or, 2) Go
to Cook County Court online case search: Cook County Court Case Lookup: http://www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/CourtCaseSearch/
Search under case number: 2020L062057
[4] https://abcnews.go.com/US/skokie-legacy-nazi-march-town-holocaust-survivors/story?id=56026742
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