Word: brafman
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...Viktor Kozeny maintains that he did not defraud anyone,” said Benjamin Brafman of Brafman & Ross, P.C. “The investors were a group of very sophisticated individuals and organizations who conducted their own due diligence, and knew exactly what they were investing in, what the risks were, and these people got exactly what they bargained...
...Federson, took the stand. For some reason almost everyone associated with the trial has a nickname - there's Combs' co-defendant Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, Combs' bodyguard Anthony "Wolf" Jones, Combs' ex-girlfriend Jennifer "J.Lo" Lopez, and of course, Combs himself, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, Puffy and, most ridiculously, P-diddy. Brafman stood behind a podium a short distance from the witness box to cross-examine Fenderson, who was the driver of the alleged getaway car, a Lincoln Navigator, on the night of the shootings. Brafman has a strong voice and speaks in a loud, aggressive manner - the same tone of voice...
...people wanted to see it in person. There were two lines - one for working press, the other for the public - of about a dozen people each stretching along a narrow corridor on the seventh floor. At around 9 a.m. members of Combs' legal team - including Johnnie Cochran and Benjamin Brafman - squeezed past everyone and, minutes later, the rest of us were...
...animosity between Brafman and Bogdanos reached a boiling point after about an hour. Brafman was questioning Fenderson about what he saw and did when Combs and Lopez were handcuffed to a pole on a bench in a police station shortly after the shooting incident. Federson was in a nearby cell, but the lawyers strongly disagreed on just how far away he was from Lopez and Combs. At one point Brafman scolded Bogdanos: "Behave! Behave!" Judge Charles Solomon had heard enough. The jury was sent out of the room and he scolded the feuding lawyers. "You can call each other names...
...Then things got really whiny. Bogdanos complained that in a previous session Brafman had called him "snotty." Said Bogdanos: "If he draws first blood... " The judge responded: "It's not the playground." But it was too late. It was the playground. And the spectators were twittering with laughter. After things settled down, the jury was brought back in and Brafman continued his cross-examination. Fenderson held to his story that he saw Combs with a gun on the night of the shootings, but he was unclear on details. He said that he saw Combs pull up his "Sean John" sweat...