The biggest mystery to me is how Canter received a law license? Who approved him at the Character & Fitness Committee based upon his Communist background?
Canter v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, 170 Ill.
App.3d 364, 523 N.E.2d 1299 (1st Dist. 1988).
A court decision in which a candidate was disqualified for engaging in a pattern of fraud.
It is quite possible he got his law degree much earlier than his 1950’s Communist Party exposure by a congressional committee, HCUA. It was his acting as an unregistered Soviet propaganda distributing agent that got him in trouble. He refused to register and closed down his bookstore in Chicago. His partner was another Soviet asset, CPUSA veterans leader Leroy Wolins. Met Wolins in 1969. He was a real gogetter. Reportedly the man who suggested that the 6 anti-Vietnam GIs who met together start Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam. In either Hunt or Nicosia’s book on VVAW/Kerry.