[CTRL] Fwd: Attorney Barry Levin Found Dead

[Aleisha Saba]

Strange story - found in a cemetary?

Reminded me of a story here in which I became extemely interested.

Local attorney by name of Shapiro came to my office several times but
always lots of people around  and he would smirk and smile..\

At that time I had written Robin Moore (author of French Connection) who
had Condor Press in Westport, Connecticut - my friend (MI6) had died and
I was well fishing - for you see Moore's sister had disappeared and my
friend thought her husand had done her in- she was a psychic and he
was using drugs to enhance her psychic abilities - they used to meet and
hold seances at the House of the Sun in Florida (this was later bought
by the hamberger king for 3 million and was former Mafia half way house,
dock, landing strip and 70 or so peacocks runing around).

Anyway when my friend died I was still pretty active in research - so I
wrote Moore.   Suddenly this guy started hanging around - I left my
position with the Court at that time.

Later when working for the AG's office - big story in paper..

Shapiro, was his name - he had been murdered - he had met a man dressed
all in black in a cemetary and suddenly ran with the guy after him - he
was gunned down, murdered.

It then came out in the newspaper that Shapiro had bought into Condor
Press's book written  think by McDonald on the JFK assassination, so
evidently Moore was checking me out - I kept out of this one, but did
some fishing with police and found out what I wanted to know and it came
up - well we had had several attornies murdered and one was FBI agent -
one found hanging in a stair well and all during this period of time
Meyer Lansky's men really had a big thing going here with many unsolved
murders, tracks even leading to a certain farmhouse where they thought
Hoffa might be buried?

So now Blake's attorney, found murdered in a cemetary - a suicide?

Some of these lawyers represent shadey clients and some cross lines and
become too involved..if he was a hit as they say in Mafia talk -
well that is possible.

Like Chandra Levy - maybe if she was put to sleep, so to put - she was
buried by a Mafia undertaker as a Jane Doe?

So Judge Crater where are - for his story still lives today and every so
often in a phone booth you still see - Judge Crater, please call your
wife.

Only know for one involved in research of JFK and Mafia and CIA
connectin to Mafia it seems like people I knew were falling all about me
- but Condor Press - remembre Robion Moore=s family as I recall one
married Barry Sadler of Green Beret fame - he was once booed off a
football field like the boy scouts were booed at Democrat Convention?

Evil is as Evil does.

As my old friend said, we have opened big can of works but Anslinger of
FBI I used to write, as for Mafia pull up one piece of spagetti and up
comes the whole plate indicating in his books the Mafia was
Italian..

Hey that Last Supper - those weren't Italians.




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[CTRL] Fwd: Attorney Barry Levin Found Dead

[Aleisha Saba]

Here is story reproduced?   But then maybe like Vince Foster he did
suicide?

Saba


·Actor Blake's Lawyer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - Reuters (Jul 8,
2001)More...

Sunday July 8 12:58 AM ET
Attorney Barry Levin Found Dead
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Reuters Photo

By LOUINN LOTA, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Criminal attorney Barry Levin, who helped handle Erik
Menendez's murder defense and more recently represented actor Robert
Blake, apparently committed suicide by shooting himself in the head
Saturday at a veterans cemetery.

Levin, 54, appeared to have committed suicide, said FBI (news - web
sites) spokesman Matthew McLaughlin. Levin suffered from Gaucher's
disease, said Ron Dorfman, a fellow attorney who spoke at a news
conference at the cemetery.

Gaucher's disease is an inherited enzyme-deficiency disorder whose
victims bleed and bruise easily. Levin was in constant, severe pain and
had already had a shoulder replaced because of the disease, Dorfman
said.

``True to his character, Barry did not want to burden his friends and
colleagues with his suffering, and they were not aware of his
deteriorating physical condition,´´ Dorfman said.
``I was certainly devastated, but not surprised.

The discomfort he was in was extreme.´´
Levin was found slumped over the steering wheel of his vehicle about 2
p.m., McLaughlin said. The FBI was investigating because the death
occurred at the Los Angeles National Cemetery, which is federal
property.

KFWB-AM said Levin talked to some people at the cemetery Saturday before
going off alone and shooting himself.

Levin, a former city police officer, was one of the best-known attorneys
in Los Angeles. Levin was a co-counsel for Menendez, who was sentenced
to life without parole in 1996 with brother Lyle for killing their
parents.

Attorney Leslie Abramson, who was Levin's co-counsel on the Menendez
case, described Levin as ``all heart for his clients.´´

``He had a tremendous understanding for people, especially veterans. He
was a great guy with a fair amount of tragedy in his own life. He´s
been a colleague and a friend for many years, and a wonderful lawyer. He
was always my hero.´´

Levin recently represented Blake, star of the ``Baretta´´ TV series,
whose wife´s recent murder is unsolved.

He was also the lead defense attorney in a case stemming from alleged
corruption in the city's police department.

He represented Sgt. Edward Ortiz who with two other officers was
convicted in November of conspiracy and other charges alleging they
framed alleged gang members. The convictions were overturned.

In May, attorney Harland Braun brought Levin into the Blake case, saying
his police experience would be valuable in monitoring the investigation.
Braun said he had not known Levin was ill.

``He was always optimistic. We talked every three days. I can´t
believe a suicide - he was such a fighter.´´

Levin served as an Army staff sergeant and paratrooper and was awarded
the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He wrote about post-traumatic stress
disorder and defending Vietnam veterans with the disorder.
Levin is survived by a wife, Debbie, and two daughters.
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