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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
tags:
  - Person
  - Lawyer
  - LawEnforcement
summary: "U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran."
born: 1944-05-28
location: "Brooklyn, New York"
---

[[Rudolph Giuliani]] was the [[United States|U.S.]] Attorney for the Southern District of [[New York City]]. He was involved in the [[Hashemi sting]] operation, which was designed to entrap individuals connected with [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]

[[Rudolph Giuliani|Giuliani]], along with [[William von Raab]], the [[U.S. Customs|Customs]] Commissioner, gave joint TV interviews on April 22, 1986, announcing the arrest of a "huge ring of terrorists" and "Merchants of Death" who were supposedly about to sell arms worth a billion dollars to [[Iran]]. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] claims that [[Rudolph Giuliani|Giuliani]] and his associates had created the crime themselves.[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).