Ivan Stephan Fisher was born on 1943 and is a prominent New York City criminal defense attorney.
14 Facts About Ivan Fisher
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Ivan Fisher represents white-collar clients and others targeted or charged in complex federal matters.
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Ivan Fisher has been the recipient of many honors including being invited to address the United States Second Circuit Federal Judicial Conference.
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Ivan Fisher attended the Horace Mann School, Syracuse University and Boston University School of Law.
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Ivan Fisher represented the Italian financier Michele Sindona, was lead counsel in the Pizza Connection Trial, the longest federal criminal trial in US history and the French Connection trial.
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On May 15,1974, Ivan Fisher won a landmark decision in the Court of Appeals in the 2nd Circuit, United States vs Toscanino, which in effect overruled Supreme Court rulings precluding American judicial review of foreign US law enforcement conduct.
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Ivan Fisher won an acquittal at the trial of Demetrios Demetrios, who was alleged to have traded illegally with "black nations".
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Ivan Fisher represented the billionaire Pashtun tribal chieftain and politician Haji Ayub Afridi, whose jurisdiction covers the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan; Ayub Afridi has endured a long and complicated relationship with the United States, including a prosecution brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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Ivan Fisher defended Alberto Vilar, an investor and billionaire philanthropist, who was head of the asset management firm Amerindo Investment Advisors, against securities fraud charges brought by the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.
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Ivan Fisher is counsel to Haji Bashir Noorzai, whose prosecution and subsequent conviction by the US government raised significant issues involving United States foreign policy.
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In 2009, Ivan Fisher represented the General Counsel of a major telecommunications company on charges of stock options backdating.
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Ivan Fisher has frequently been profiled in major publications such as Time magazine, The New York Times, The National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal.
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Ivan Fisher is regularly called on to give legal commentary on national television.
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In 2012, Ivan Fisher was suspended from New York federal courts for breach of fiduciary responsibility to a client.