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Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran. |
Baruch Weiss was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York City. He was the prosecutor in the trial of Ari Ben-Menashe and Richard St. Francis for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.1
Baruch Weiss initially classified Ari Ben-Menashe as dangerous, but later admitted it was a mistake. He signed an agreement with Ari Ben-Menashe to talk without a lawyer present, granting him immunity for the conversations. Baruch Weiss insisted that Ari Ben-Menashe was a low-level translator acting for personal profit, but the taped conversations and Ari Ben-Menashe employment records, including letters of recommendation, contradicted this claim.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎