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category: Law Enforcement & Legal
summary: Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe
  in jail offering to broker a plea deal.
tags:
- Person
- Lawyer
- LawEnforcement
---

[Leonard Joy](/people/leonard-joy/) was a lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York. He visited [Ari Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) in jail after a bail hearing and offered his services "on the house" to plead [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) guilty and get him a deal to return to [Israel](/places/israel/).[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.