Gerald Shargel

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Template:Linkless Gerald Shargel (b. 1949) is a high-profile defense attorney based in New York City who has been a member of the New York Bar since 1969. He has garnered attention as both a trial and appellate lawyer, representing white collar clients and ordinary criminal defendants, but is most famous for securing the acquittal of John Gotti Sr. in 1991 on charges that he had ordered the murder of a labor union official.

One of his most recent high-profile clients was Daniel Pelosi, who had been charged with the second-degree murder of a millionaire in East Hampton named Theodore Ammon.

Shargel also serves as a Practitioner-In-Residence at Brooklyn Law School, where he is a professor Evidence and Criminal Criminal Procedure. He also serves as a frequent writer and commentator on legal issues that arise during high profile criminal cases, which generate sustained national and regional media focus.

Gerald Shargel graduated from Rutgers University in 1966 and Brooklyn Law School in 1969.

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