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MARK GERAGOS CALLS U.S. STANCE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE HYPOCRITICAL
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12:16, 27 September, 2013
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. American-Armenian attorney Mark
Geragos voiced about the Turkish strategy of the Armenian Genocide
denial and the double standards policy of the United States in
this issue. As reports "Armenpress" the participants of Anderson
Cooper 360 program unanimously condemned the policy adopted by Iran
regarding the Holocaust of the Jewish people by Nazis. Mark Geragos
has also participated in the aforesaid program and reminded the
interlocutors that the United States conduct similar policy in the
Armenian Genocide issue, which was followed by the other genocides of
the 20th century. Among other things Mark Geragos underscored: "Turkey
is our greatest ally in that region. But Turkey denies the Armenian
Genocide. As a presidential candidate Barack Obama stated that he will
recognize the Armenian Genocide, if he is elected. So in my opinion
the political dynamics in this issue is a little bit hypocritical."
Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American
criminal defense lawyer. Clients that he represented include Michael
Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, politician Gary Condit, Susan McDougal
and Scott Peterson.
As the Principal with the internationally known trial lawyer firm of
Geragos & Geragos, Mark Geragos cemented his national reputation as
a trial lawyer a dozen years ago with back-to-back State and Federal
Court jury trial acquittals for renowned Whitewater figure Susan
McDougal, later securing a presidential pardon for Ms. McDougal for
a conviction sustained prior to his representation of her.
During the last decade, Geragos has won two consecutive dismissals
of murder charges against clients by proving flawed eyewitness
identification. One of those clients later won a $1.7 million
settlement when the Geragos firm sued the City of Glendale for their
false arrest of that client. In another twelve-week murder trial where
the victim was the defendant's four-year-old daughter, Geragos was the
lead lawyer where the jury did not convict his client. He convinced a
San Mateo Superior Court Judge to grant probation in a weapons and drug
case brought against Victor Willis, former Village People frontman, and
was the attorney who successfully represented Chris Brown last year.
Geragos won dismissal of prostitution charges against James Bond movie
director Lee Tamahori; dismissal of all felony charges - including
kidnapping and torture - for Hung Bao Zhong, the recognized exiled
leader of China's shadow government with an estimated 38 million
followers worldwide; dismissal of murder charges for the third time
for a USC co-ed charged with murder in the death of her fetus; and
dismissal of a decades-old murder charge against Japanese national
Kazuyoshi Miura, a case christened the "Japanese O.J. Case" by
Japanese media.
Geragos was one of the lead lawyers in a pair of groundbreaking
Federal Class Action Lawsuits against New York Life Insurance and
AXA Corporation for insurance policies issued in the early 20th
century during the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by the
Ottoman Turk Regime, eventually settling these two cases for more
than $37.5 million. He is currently suing the Government of Turkey
for reparations arising out of the Armenian Genocide.
Geragos is the only lawyer besides Johnnie Cochran ever named "Lawyer
of the Year" in both Criminal and Civil arenas. California Law Business
Magazine named Geragos "One of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in
California" three years in a row, and Geragos has repeatedly been voted
by his peers as one of Los Angeles' SuperLawyers. His $59 million jury
verdict in a trade secrets case against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
Corporation was voted both "Top Ten Verdicts in 2008 in California"
by the Daily Journal, as well as "Top Fifty Verdicts in the United
States" by the National Law Journal.
Mark Geragos has represented some of the most prominent figures in the
world. His client list has included former Congressman Gary Condit,
former first brother Roger Clinton, Academy Award-nominated actress
Winona Ryder, pop star Michael Jackson, Nicole Ritchie, singer Chris
Brown, hip hop stars Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale and Sean "Diddy"
Combs (aka Puff Daddy), international arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian,
and the Sarkisyan family, whose seventeen-year-old daughter died when
Cigna Corporation refused to authorize a liver transplant. For the last
several years, Geragos has represented Barry Bonds' personal trainer,
Greg Anderson, in his matter relating to the Federal Investigation
into steroid use in Professional Sports.
Geragos has regularly appeared as both guest and legal commentator
on the "Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Dateline NBC," "Larry
King Live," "Greta Van Susteren's On the Record," "60 minutes," and
"48 hours," and has lectured extensively and authored numerous articles
and Law Review publications on the subject of Media and the Law.
Mark Geragos attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania as an
undergraduate, and later earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law
School. He was born in Los Angeles
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/734554/mark-geragos-calls-us-stance-on-armenian-genocide-issue-hypocritical.html
12:16, 27 September, 2013
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. American-Armenian attorney Mark
Geragos voiced about the Turkish strategy of the Armenian Genocide
denial and the double standards policy of the United States in
this issue. As reports "Armenpress" the participants of Anderson
Cooper 360 program unanimously condemned the policy adopted by Iran
regarding the Holocaust of the Jewish people by Nazis. Mark Geragos
has also participated in the aforesaid program and reminded the
interlocutors that the United States conduct similar policy in the
Armenian Genocide issue, which was followed by the other genocides of
the 20th century. Among other things Mark Geragos underscored: "Turkey
is our greatest ally in that region. But Turkey denies the Armenian
Genocide. As a presidential candidate Barack Obama stated that he will
recognize the Armenian Genocide, if he is elected. So in my opinion
the political dynamics in this issue is a little bit hypocritical."
Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American
criminal defense lawyer. Clients that he represented include Michael
Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, politician Gary Condit, Susan McDougal
and Scott Peterson.
As the Principal with the internationally known trial lawyer firm of
Geragos & Geragos, Mark Geragos cemented his national reputation as
a trial lawyer a dozen years ago with back-to-back State and Federal
Court jury trial acquittals for renowned Whitewater figure Susan
McDougal, later securing a presidential pardon for Ms. McDougal for
a conviction sustained prior to his representation of her.
During the last decade, Geragos has won two consecutive dismissals
of murder charges against clients by proving flawed eyewitness
identification. One of those clients later won a $1.7 million
settlement when the Geragos firm sued the City of Glendale for their
false arrest of that client. In another twelve-week murder trial where
the victim was the defendant's four-year-old daughter, Geragos was the
lead lawyer where the jury did not convict his client. He convinced a
San Mateo Superior Court Judge to grant probation in a weapons and drug
case brought against Victor Willis, former Village People frontman, and
was the attorney who successfully represented Chris Brown last year.
Geragos won dismissal of prostitution charges against James Bond movie
director Lee Tamahori; dismissal of all felony charges - including
kidnapping and torture - for Hung Bao Zhong, the recognized exiled
leader of China's shadow government with an estimated 38 million
followers worldwide; dismissal of murder charges for the third time
for a USC co-ed charged with murder in the death of her fetus; and
dismissal of a decades-old murder charge against Japanese national
Kazuyoshi Miura, a case christened the "Japanese O.J. Case" by
Japanese media.
Geragos was one of the lead lawyers in a pair of groundbreaking
Federal Class Action Lawsuits against New York Life Insurance and
AXA Corporation for insurance policies issued in the early 20th
century during the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by the
Ottoman Turk Regime, eventually settling these two cases for more
than $37.5 million. He is currently suing the Government of Turkey
for reparations arising out of the Armenian Genocide.
Geragos is the only lawyer besides Johnnie Cochran ever named "Lawyer
of the Year" in both Criminal and Civil arenas. California Law Business
Magazine named Geragos "One of the 100 Most Influential Attorneys in
California" three years in a row, and Geragos has repeatedly been voted
by his peers as one of Los Angeles' SuperLawyers. His $59 million jury
verdict in a trade secrets case against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
Corporation was voted both "Top Ten Verdicts in 2008 in California"
by the Daily Journal, as well as "Top Fifty Verdicts in the United
States" by the National Law Journal.
Mark Geragos has represented some of the most prominent figures in the
world. His client list has included former Congressman Gary Condit,
former first brother Roger Clinton, Academy Award-nominated actress
Winona Ryder, pop star Michael Jackson, Nicole Ritchie, singer Chris
Brown, hip hop stars Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale and Sean "Diddy"
Combs (aka Puff Daddy), international arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian,
and the Sarkisyan family, whose seventeen-year-old daughter died when
Cigna Corporation refused to authorize a liver transplant. For the last
several years, Geragos has represented Barry Bonds' personal trainer,
Greg Anderson, in his matter relating to the Federal Investigation
into steroid use in Professional Sports.
Geragos has regularly appeared as both guest and legal commentator
on the "Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Dateline NBC," "Larry
King Live," "Greta Van Susteren's On the Record," "60 minutes," and
"48 hours," and has lectured extensively and authored numerous articles
and Law Review publications on the subject of Media and the Law.
Mark Geragos attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania as an
undergraduate, and later earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law
School. He was born in Los Angeles