Брафман: Манхэттендік қорғаушы адвокаттың өмірі мен іс-әрекеті

American criminal defense attorney

Brafman grew up in Brooklyn and Belle Harbor, Queens, a son of Holocaust survivors. Brafman's family fled from Europe to Cuba on their way to the United States just before World War II. Brafman received his Juris Doctor with distinction from Ohio Northern University College of Law. In May 2014, Brafman was awarded an honorary degree by Ohio Northern University College of Law.

After graduating from law school, admitted to the New York State Bar in 1975, Brafman worked for a criminal defense firm for two years, then became an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. In 1980, Brafman started his own law firm in Manhattan. In November 2023, Brafman would again represent Combs as he was facing a $30 million sexual assault lawsuit from his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. He would publicly denounce Ventura's accusations against Combs, including in an exclusive interview with People. The lawsuit would end the day after it was filed when both parties agreed to an undisclosed settlement.

On November 30, 2008, Brafman was hired to represent NFL star Plaxico Burress who, on August 3, 2009, was indicted on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and one count of reckless endangerment. Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and was sentenced to two years in prison.

In 2011, Brafman represented French politician, economist and former IMF head Dominique Strauss Kahn in a sexual assault case involving a member of the housekeeping staff of an upscale New York City hotel. gained first a recommendation that charges be dropped from New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and then charges dropped by New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus. Brafman discussed his defense of Strauss Kahn on Charlie Rose in February, 2012.

In 2014 and 2015, Brafman represented Martin Wolmark of the Epstein Wolmark gang, an outfit that had plotted the kidnap and torture of Jewish husbands to coerce them into granting their wives gets (religious divorces). Wolmark pled guilty to the charges, and was sentenced to three years in prison.

In early 2016, Martin Shkreli retained Brafman to defend him. In a 2017 jury trial, Shkreli was found guilty on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Brafman is a practicing Orthodox Jew. His wife, Lynda, is a librarian. The Brafmans lived in a "cramped Forest Hills apartment" early in their marriage and, by 1998, lived in an "enormous Long Island brick mansion." Brafman is a self described "short Jewish guy," standing five feet, six inches tall.