Larry Klayman
| Larry Klayman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Larry Elliot Klayman July 20, 1951 |
| Occupation | Attorney Activist |
| Political party | Republican |
| Religion | "Jewish Christian"[1] |
Larry Elliot Klayman (born July 20, 1951) is an American attorney and activist. He is known as the founder and former Chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm, which attained notoriety through the initiation of 18 civil lawsuits against the Clinton Administration, and later an unsuccessful lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney in order to obtain information about the White House's energy task force.[2][3][4]
On February 3, 2012, the prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, announced that Klayman was indicted for failure to pay child support.[5] The charge of criminal non-support is a fifth degree felony which carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison. Klayman owes $78,861.76 for two children ages 11 and 14.
[edit] Life and career
In September 2003, Klayman left the organization to run for the United States Senate from Florida. He lost in the Republican primary. In 2006 Klayman sued Judicial Watch and its president Tom Fitton charging financial and other mismanagement issues which damaged Judicial Watch, the donors and Klayman.
After his run for the U.S. Senate, Klayman formed the organization Freedom Watch to "protect civil liberties [and] rights of all persons, whatever their ethnicity, race, religion, sex or otherwise." [6]
During the Ronald Reagan administration, Klayman was a prosecutor in the Justice Department and was on the trial team that succeeded in breaking up the telephone monopoly of AT&T.
Klayman has authored the books Fatal Neglect and Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment, and writes a weekly column for the conservative news website WorldNetDaily.
On the NBC series The West Wing, John Diehl played a character patterned after Klayman called "Harry Klaypool." [7]
In April 2011, Klayman filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media website of "negligence" for not responding quickly enough to calls to take down an anti-Israel "Third Intifada" page and demanding $1 billion in damages. Facebook representatives responded that the suit was "without merit".[8]
Klayman recently came under heavy scrutiny and criticism from readers of his World Net Daily column after calling President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traitors for not attacking Iran and advocating the use of nuclear weapons on Tehran, even though much of the criticism comes from people who are also critical of the Obama administration's foreign policies.[9]
Klayman describes himself as a "Jewish Christian".[1]
On August 29, 2011, the Florida Supreme Court issued a public reprimand of Klayman relating to a failure to perform legal services he had agreed to provide and to return a retainer to a client.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/112453/
- ^ Segal, David (1998-05-30). "Pursuing Clinton Suits Him Just Fine". Washington Post. p. A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/klayman053098.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
- ^ Bill Moyers Interview with Larry Klayman, Public Broadcasting Service, July 11, 2003.
- ^ Appeals Court Permits Energy Task Force Records to Remain Secret, Judicial Watch press release, May 10, 2005.
- ^ http://www.prosecutormason.com/mnc.aspx?type=News&mcid=782
- ^ "About Freedom Watch". Freedomwatchusa.org. http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/about. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ^ "Lord John Marbury - The West Wing Episode Guide". Westwingepguide.com. http://www.westwingepguide.com/S1/Episodes/11_LJM.html. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ^ "Facebook sued for $1billion over 'Intifada' page calling for violence against Jews". Daily Mail. 2011-04-03. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372859/Facebook-sued-1billion-Intifada-page.html. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
- ^ http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=382685&fb_comment_id=fbc_10150507742207641_20671023_10150512004857641#f2d6d08974
- ^ http://www.floridabar.org/names.nsf/0/BAA03136C8FE0ACD85256A83005550EB?OpenDocument
[edit] External links
- Ethics And The Law: Why Conservatives Must Lead A brief biography of Klayman, as well as the early history of Judicial Watch.
- Judicial Watch Official Judicial Watch website.
- Bill Moyers Interviews Larry Klayman Transcript of conversation from NOW.
- Worldnetdaily's Speakers Bureau
- Larry Klayman Joins Cleveland Firm
- The Conservative Ralph Nader
- Larry Klayman - The One Man TEA Party
- Klayman vs. Chertoff
- Worldnetdaily Archive of WND columns written by Larry Klayman.
- [1] Larry Klayman calls for nuclear attacks on Iran.
