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Robert Leslie Shapiro (born September 2, 1942) is an American attorney and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the short-term defense lawyer of Erik Menendez in 1990, and a member of the "Dream Team" of O. J. Simpson's attorneys that successfully defended him from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, in 1994.
Robert Shapiro joined Simpson's defense team one week after the beginning of the trial, when Howard Weitzman withdrew from the case, stating his workload was too heavy to continue as chair. [2] As defense chair, Shapiro was called the "architect" of the Simpson defense for building the high-profile legal team that would later be dubbed the ...
On August 7, 2019 Robert H. Shapiro, the former CEO of the Woodbridge Group of Companies, pled guilty and admitted in Miami federal court that he "misappropriated" between $25 million and $95 million of the investors' money to allow him and his family to pay for an estate in the Los Angeles area, chartered planes, global travel, jewellery ...
Abramson replaced lawyer Robert Shapiro (who had worked on O.J. Simpson’s murder defense), and then resigned. Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009. Music producer Phil Spector ...
The tragic day got even worse when Nicole’s sister Denise Brown was approached by O.J.’s attorney, Robert Shapiro. “Then all of a sudden I went outside and Shapiro came up to me — this is ...
In 1994, while the O. J. Simpson case was being tried, Bailey and Robert Shapiro represented Claude DuBoc, who in that case was found guilty of the drug trafficking of marijuana. In a plea bargain agreement with the U.S. Attorney, DuBoc agreed to turn over his assets to the U.S. government. These included a large block of stock in BioChem ...
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There are several characters who have worked in the brothers' and O. J. Simpson's respective cases, such as Robert Shapiro, Lance Ito, and Gil Garcetti. Shapiro (portrayed by John Travolta) mentioned Erik in Episode 2 stating, "In fact, I arranged the surrender of Erik Menendez from Israel." This statement is based on the actual speech by ...