Alan Futerfas (born 1961
) is an American
criminal defense attorney
A criminal defense lawyer is a lawyer (mostly barristers) specializing in the defense of individuals and companies charged with criminal activity. Some criminal defense lawyers are privately retained, while others are employed by the various j ...
. He has represented several notable clients, including
organized crime
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figures such as
Donald Trump Jr.
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Trump serves as a trustee and exec ...
, son of
Donald Trump
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.
Early life and education
Futerfas was born in
Miami
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.
He is of
Jewish
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descent.
He graduated from
Miami Coral Park Senior High School in 1979
and the
Juilliard School
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in 1984 (
Bachelor of Music
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),
[ and his J.D. degree from ]Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City. Cardozo School of Law
The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the Law school in the United States, law school of Yeshiva University in New York City. Founded in 1976 and now located on Fifth Avenue near Union Square, Manhattan, Union Square in Lower Manhattan, the sc ...
in 1987.[
Futerfas plays bass ]trombone
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in the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) is a classical symphony orchestra based in New York City.
The orchestra has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and won The American Prize Competition in Orchestral Performance three times. The o ...
.
Career as a criminal defense attorney
Futerfas has represented clients in a number of high-profile organized crime cases, including New York Mafia clients connected to the Colombo
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, Gambino, and Genovese
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People
* Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American oboist
* Alfredo Genovese (born 1964), Argentine arti ...
families.Mafia
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hitman Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994), nicknamed the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter, was an American ''caporegime'' and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and '80s, Scarpa was t ...
. In the late 1990s, he transitioned to largely handling white-collar cases, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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(SEC) investigations and other regulatory matters. In the early 2000s, Futerfas represented Christine Berry, art consultant to ex-Tyco International
Tyco International was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major busin ...
CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski
Leo Dennis Kozlowski (born November 16, 1946) is a former CEO of Tyco International, convicted in 2005 of crimes related to his receipt of $81 million in unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million and the payment by Tyco of a $ ...
, in connection with an investigation that led to a larger case against Kozlowski.[
Futerfas was also the attorney for Ziv Orenstein, one of three Israeli citizens indicted in 2015 on charges of being part of a cybertheft ring that stole customer data from ]JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational financial services, finance corporation headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is List of largest banks in the United States, the largest ba ...
and Dow Jones & Co. the previous year as part of a huge "pump and dump
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" scheme.[ In a separate cybercrime case, Futerfas represented Nikita Kuzmin, a Russian national who created ]malware
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targeting bank accounts.[
Futerfas' firm has represented a Rikers Island female prisoner in a 2015 rights and sexual assault case.]
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References
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20th-century American Jews
Yeshiva University alumni
American lawyers
Juilliard School alumni
Living people
1961 births
21st-century American Jews
Miami Coral Park Senior High School alumni
Lawyers from Miami