Baruch Weiss
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.
Baruch Weiss was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York City. He was the prosecutor in the trial of Ari Ben-Menashe and Richard St. Francis for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.1
Weiss initially classified Ben-Menashe as dangerous, but later admitted it was a mistake. He signed an agreement with Ben-Menashe to talk without a lawyer present, granting him immunity for the conversations. Weiss insisted that Ben-Menashe was a low-level translator acting for personal profit, but the taped conversations and Ben-Menashe's employment records, including letters of recommendation, contradicted this claim.1
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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