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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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- Person
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- Lawyer
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- LawEnforcement
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summary: "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."
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[[Baruch Weiss]] was an Assistant [[United States|U.S.]] 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]
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[[Baruch Weiss|Weiss]] initially classified [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] as dangerous, but later admitted it was a mistake. He signed an agreement with [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] to talk without a lawyer present, granting him immunity for the conversations. [[Baruch Weiss|Weiss]] insisted that [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] was a low-level translator acting for personal profit, but the taped conversations and [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]] employment records, including letters of recommendation, contradicted this claim.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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