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| Name | Gerald Posner |
| First Name | Gerald |
| Last Name | Posner |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Birthday | May 20 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco |
| Home Town | California |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Gerald Posner Biography
Gerald Posner is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 20, 1954 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Case Closed continued to generate widely divergent views. Film director Oliver Stone told a JFK assassination conference in Pittsburgh that Case Closed was discredited and “there’s nothing in the movie (JFK) that I would go back on.” Posner, on the day of the 50th anniversary, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that “the only thing he [Stone] gets right in ‘JFK’ is the date on which Kennedy is killed.
Gerald Leo Posner (born May 20, 1954) is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles Posner wrote for The Daily Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010. In 2015, the Chicago Tribune called Posner “a merciless pitbull of an investigator.”
Some of the content in Mengele: The Complete Story was utilized by the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which in February 1985 began an in-depth investigation into Mengele’s post-war activities and whereabouts. The investigation, done in conjunction with the United States Marshals Service, was launched after allegations that Mengele was at any time in the custody of or had any relationship with U.S. government institutions or personnel after World War II. In its official report to the Attorney General of the United States in 1992, In the Matter of Josef Mengele, OSI noted it was indebted to Posner for obtaining a witness statement concerning Mengele’s whereabouts from October 1945 to August 1, 1948.
Gerald Posner Net Worth
Gerald is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gerald Posner's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Writer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
At age 23, he joined law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore as one of the youngest attorneys ever hired by the firm. In 1980, he went into private practice with a partner. In 1981, he represented Deborah Ann Fountain, Miss New York State, against the Miss America pageant after Fountain was disqualified for padding her bra. He left the law in 1986, when his first book, about Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele’s life on the run, was published by McGraw Hill.
Posner was also the consulting producer of the film documentary, “The Barrel of a Gun”, by Tigre Hill, about the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer and the convicted murderer, Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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After graduating with honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1978, Posner moved from San Francisco to New York and started practicing law as a litigation associate at the New York–Wall Street law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. After leaving Cravath in 1981 he was a co-founder of the New York firm, Posner & Ferrara. It was there that he became involved in an ultimately unsuccessful 4-year pro bono effort on behalf of victims of concentration camp experiments against the West German government and the family of Dr. Josef Mengele. After the publication of his first book about Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, Posner was “Of Counsel” to Posner & Ferrara. In 2010 he began a series of high-profile client representations. Among them were three brothers of Afghanistan’s then-president Hamid Karzai; Posner represented Mahmud Karzai, Qayum Karzai, and the so-called “King of Kandahar Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was assassinated in July 2011. Posner also represented Haji Ruhullah, an Afghan security contractor described by “The Washington Post” as “a leading warlord in Southern Afghanistan.” Posner successfully defended Ruhullah against U.S. Army efforts to debar the Afghan from doing business with the U.S. government. Posner also assisted other high-profile defendants. He advised Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson as part of a British documentary over Murray’s role. Posner provided pro-bono advice to Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer nicknamed in the press as the “Merchant of Death” and played by actor Nicolas Cage in the film, “Lord of War.” According to Posner, his legal training has given him a “big” edge in his primary career as an investigative reporter and author. Posner is a member of the New York and Washington D.C. Bars and the International Criminal Bar.
Who is Gerald Posner Dating?
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Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Posner was raised Catholic. He was educated at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. In 1978, he earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as the associate executive editor for the university’s Law Review.
Posner testified before the United States Senate in 1986 about how Mengele used an International Red Cross passport to travel safely from Europe to Argentina in 1949. He also testified about the discovery made by himself and Ware that Mengele had twice been captured by U.S. Army troops in 1945, but released both times before authorities realized he was on several wanted lists.
Facts & Trivia
Gerald Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gerald Posner celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.
Posner’s first book, co-written with British journalist John Ware, was the 1986 biography Mengele: The Complete Story. The book was the result of a five-year pro bono lawsuit that Posner brought on behalf of survivors of Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz. Posner and Ware obtained exclusive access to 5,000 pages of Mengele’s diaries and personal papers for their book. The book was critically recognized as the “definitive” biography of Mengele.
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