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The other day we noted that one of Keith Raniere’s attorneys, Teny Geragos, had assured the court that there would be no conflict if her famous father, defense attorney Mark Geragos, represented Raniere’s co-defendant, Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman, in the upcoming Nxivm trial.

But now there’s a new document in the court file from the government, laying out one way that prosecutors think conflicts could arise if the father-daughter duo continue to work on this case.

Here’s the relevant paragraph from the new letter from prosecutors to Judge Nicholas Garaufis…

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To that end, prosecutors submitted a list of proposed questions for Judge Garaufis to ask in a March 18 Curcio hearing with the defendants, to determine if conflicts are present.

For example, here are some sample questions for Clare Bronfman:

— How did you choose Mark Geragos as your counsel?
— Were any of Keith Raniere’s attorneys involved in your choosing Mark Geragos as your counsel?
— Have you received any inducements, promises, or threats with regard to hiring Mark Geragos?
— Was Keith Raniere or any of Keith Raniere’s attorneys involved in your decision to terminate Susan Necheles?
— To the extent you and Raniere jointly incur legal fees (for example the costs of private investigators, briefs that your attorneys draft but that Raniere joins, the cost of a discovery vendor, etc.), do you pay those in full yourself, separately than from the defense fund?

And many more. The full list of questions is in the document…

Proposed Geragos questions … by on Scribd

 
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American criminal defense lawyer (born 1957)

Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an American criminal defense lawyer and the managing partner of Geragos & Geragos, in Los Angeles.

Early life and education

Geragos was born in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, graduating with honors. He earned his bachelor's degree from Haverford College, in 1979, double-majoring in anthropology and sociology, then his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Loyola Law School at the Loyola Marymount University in 1982. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1983.

An Armenian-American, Geragos maintains a close relationship with the Armenian community. He has earned praise from the Armenian National Committee of America, and serves on the Advisory Committee of Birthright Armenia, as the chairman of Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, and also is involved with the Armenian religious community. He has been a member of the Armenia Fund International Board of Trustees since 2006.

Career

Geragos is the managing partner for the law firm of Geragos & Geragos, where he oversees criminal defense and civil litigation. He was one of the lead lawyers in two groundbreaking federal class action lawsuits against New York Life Insurance and AXA, for insurance policies issued in the early 20th century during the time of the Armenian genocide of more than 1.5 million Armenians. The two cases settled for over $37.5 million, in 2004 and 2005.

In December 2022, Geragos partnered with law colleague and MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas to form Engine Vision Media and acquire Los Angeles magazine from Hour Media.

Office

The firm's office is located on Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles in a former Los Angeles Fire Department fir

On Mon., May 6, famous criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos will speak at the St. James Armenian Church Men’s Club Dinner about his book with Pat Harris, Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works…And Sometimes Doesn’t.

As the principal with the internationally known trial lawyer firm of Geragos & Geragos, Mark Geragos cemented his national reputation as a trial lawyer a dozen years ago with back-to-back state and federal court jury trial acquittals for renowned Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, later securing a presidential pardon for McDougal for a conviction sustained prior to his representation of her.

During the last decade, Geragos has won two consecutive dismissals of murder charges against clients by proving flawed eyewitness identification. One of those clients later won a $1.7 million settlement when the Geragos firm sued the City of Glendale for its false arrest of that client. In another 12-week murder trial where the victim was the defendant’s four-year-old daughter, Geragos was the lead lawyer, and the jury did not convict his client. He also convinced a San Mateo Superior Court judge to grant probation in a weapons and drug case brought against Victor Willis, former Village People front man, and was the attorney who successfully represented singer Chris Brown last year.

Geragos won the dismissal of prostitution charges against James Bond movie director Lee Tamahori; dismissal of all felony charges, including kidnapping and torture, for Hung Bao Zhong, the recognized exiled leader of China’s shadow government, with an estimated 38 million followers worldwide; dismissal of murder charges for the third time for a USC co-ed charged with murder in the death of her fetus; and dismissal of a decades-old murder charge against Japanese national Kazuyoshi Miura, a case christened the “Japanese O.J. Case” by the Japanese media.

Geragos was also one of the lead lawyers in a pair of groundbreaking F

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