Posted on 03/10/2003 2:21:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
To Harvard University, Greek billionaire Socrates Kokkalis is a generous donor, a visionary promoting democracy and free markets in Eastern and Central Europe.
But in Greece, Kokkalis is being investigated for betraying his country to communist spies. The 64-year-old telecommunications magnate has been charged with funneling information to East Germany during the Cold War, and also faces charges of fraud, money-laundering, and embezzlement.
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Tell that to Miguel Estrada.
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Miguel A. Estrada immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group and the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.
Mr. Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from Columbia College, New York in 1983. He received a juris doctor degree magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1990 until 1992, Mr. Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. In those capacities, Mr. Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Estrada practiced law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
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