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Mike Fawer

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Born in 1936, Mike Fawer was raised in the Bronx. He attended Cornell University and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1960. Then, Fawer was hired by the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked to prosecute organized crime leaders under Bobby Kennedy before joining the vaunted U.S. District Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York headed by Bob Morgenthau.

Fawer worked as a defense attorney for five decades and successfully served clients that included Louisiana's top elected officials, innocent death-row inmates, millionaires blamed for the savings and loan crisis, accused murderers and tax evaders, and prescription drug-pushers. Since 1971 he has lived in New Orleans, near his four grown children and four grandchildr ...more

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From the Bronx to the Bayou: A Defense Attorney's Odyssey, from Charles Evers to Edwin Edwards and Beyond

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