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Melvyn Weiss
Melvyn I. Weiss (born August 1, 1935) is a former American attorney who co-founded the well-known plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss. On March 20, 2008, Melvyn Weiss announced through his attorney that he would plead guilty to making illegal client kickbacks in exchange for an 18- to 33-month prison sentence and fines and restitution of $10 million.
== Career ==
In 1962, he was recalled during the Berlin Crisis and served for another year of active duty. After three years with another New York law firm where he practiced litigation, he co-founded the Milberg Weiss firm, which ultimately had offices throughout the country and practiced complex securities, anti-trust and consumer fraud actions predominantly representing plaintiffs in class-actions against major corporations.〔(| title = Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks| first = Jane| last = Schapiro| publisher = ''Terrace Books''| date = 2003 | )〕 Thereafter he handled, as a lead counsel, some of the largest complex actions in the country, such as the Washington Public Power Supply System, a municipal bond default case, which was then the largest ever in the country; the Michael Milken- Drexel Burnham case, dealing with the collapse of numerous companies, including savings and loans, as a result of the sale of junk bonds; Weiss’ efforts, along with the US government, led to a joint recovery of over 2 billion dollars. In addition, he was a lead counsel in numerous other major life insurance marketing fraud cases, such as the Tyco securities fraud case.
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