Ronald Goldfarb, legal reformer who fought against Mafia against RFK, dies at 91

Many of his almost a dozen books came from the work of his law firm in Washington, who specialized in cases of public interest and issues such as agricultural work rights in “Migrant Farm Workers: A Castle of Desirement” (1981) and the criminal system in “Addiction: A review of the American correction system” (1973), written with the Linda singer singer.

According to the leaks of the national security agencies of the contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, Mr. Goldfarb Essays edited from political experts and ethics for the book “After Snowden: Privacy, Intellection and Security in Information Age”.

“National security and constitutional freedom are not an event or proposal,” Goldfarb said this year at the Miami Book Fair, “but we have to achieve an exquisite balance.”

His time in the Ministry of Justice under General Prosecutor Robert F. Kennedy was also to represent competing priorities, he claimed. Mr. Goldfarb was recruited in 1961 and assigned to the organized crime and blackmail – a once tiny unit that has grown under RFK for more than 70 members.

In the meantime, President John F. Kennedy had ordered a comprehensive effort to stop Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1961 after the invasion of the Calamitic Bay of Pigs. The anti-castro plans supervised by Robert Kennedy included the CIA, which after discussions that are discussed after discussion, after discussion, after discussion, which were brought back to documents, documents, according to documents, according to documents, after documents, which were returned in Cuba.

“They thought they could burn their candle at both ends, and both work with the mafia at the same time when we molested them, persecuted them and examined them and made their lives unhappy,” said Goldfarb in 2002 as an audience in Alexandria, Virginia.

This double standard became one of the subordinate acts in Mr. Goldfarbs “perfect villains, imperfect heroes: Robert F. Kennedy's war against organized crimes” (1995), partial recipient and partial analysis of RFKS.

The path from Mr. Goldfarb to the Ministry of Justice began with a random meeting. He had come to Washington to make the Hugo Black Court of Court a social visit. On the way, Mr. Goldfarb stopped to see a friend of the legal faculty who introduced him to a recruiter for the RFK team.

His pitch to Mr. Goldfarb was direct: throw your plans to go to science and stay in the courtroom. Mr. Goldfarb had served in the Corps of the General Corps or Jag Corps in the Air Force, in which aviators defended in judicial hearings and other cases. “And I ended up at the 'new border',” he said, using a term to describe the youthful president Kennedy and his politics.

However, Mr. Goldfarb was careful before RFK before his earlier work. In the early 1950s, Robert Kennedy was the deputy lawyer of the subcommittee “Red Scare” under the direction of Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin, who led inquiries about career processing into suspected communist sympathizers.

“I just thought, like other people, that he was brazen and a tyrant and that he was exclusively the nepotism, that he was done with the attorney in general,” said Gold color of the Washington City Paper. But he soon started to admire Robert Kennedy's uncompromising style, he said.

According to Newport, Ky., A Cincinnati suburb, which he described as a “classic sin city”, which at that time was notorious for his political corruption and mob-run vice. Mr. Goldfarb supported in investigations that led to condemnation of the entire Newport city government and the dozens of others.

He also worked closely with the reform -oriented sheriff of the district, George Ratterman, a former professional football player who had been subjected and photographed in bed with a stripper with a stripper during the campaign for Sheriff in 1961. The Kaprat was exposed and Ratterman rose to victory.

The crime syndicates in Nordkentucky finally moved out. In his book, Mr. Goldfarb took over a large part of the RFK's views that organized crimes is a direct threat to the rule of law and trust in the political system.

“These were predators who often had completely anti -social animals that had hunted society, had no socially redeeming goals that used the most common means to get in the way and whose actions, if they were not checked, would lead to anarchy,” he wrote. “They were perfect villains.”

But Mr. Goldfarb also reported defects with RFKS, which included an obsessive striving for the teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa was convicted of manipulation and other indictment for jury in 1964 and began in 1967 with a 13-year prison sentence (the prison sentence was converted in 1971 by President Richard M. Nixon and Hoffa in 1975, the details of his alleged murder remained unsolved.)

On November 22, 1963, Mr. Goldfarb was part of a meeting with Robert Kennedy, which ended shortly before lunch. About an hour later, the news broke that President Kennedy had been shot while his car foan drove through Dallas.

For decades, Mr. Goldfarb exhibited a position that, with the conclusion of the Warren Commission, contradicted that the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted in a self -beaten conspiracy alone. In his book and later articles, Mr. Goldfarb gave the opportunity to organize crime bosses – annoyed by RFKS crusade burners – the planning of the JFK attack.

“The most convincing evidence concern the conversations between the leading organized crime figures in 1962 and 1963, which were outraged by [Robert] Kennedy's crusade against her, ”wrote Mr. Goldfarb in an opinion in 1995 in the Washington Post.“ There was a conspiracy to kill the Attorney General. There is threatening evidence that they have switched their anger to the president. ”

His attitude brought some ridicule from book records, also as his profile was raised among the JFK conspiracy theorists. Mr. Goldfarb remained unmoved, but admitted that too much time had gone to either validate or exposed his speculation.

“The theory has an urgent credibility that our organized crime prompted a plan to string back the brothers Kennedy,” he wrote.

Ronald Lawrence Goldfarb was born on October 16, 1933 in Jersey City and grew up in North Bergen. His father was a tree manager and his mother took care of her home.

At the Syracuse University, Mr. Goldfarb was part of a program for a right -hand school that completed his student studies in 1954 and received a degree in law in 1956. After serving in the Air Force Jag Corps for three years, he wrote down on the Yale Law School for advanced legal conclusions.

Robert Kennedy resigned in September 1964 as the Attorney General, and Mr. Goldfarb finally stepped up as a speech writer for a long time, but ultimately successfully for the US Senate in New York and defeated the incumbent Republican Kenneth Keating in November.

“My personal contacts with him, especially after his brother had been killed, showed that he was a very tortured person who felt very human things, and not the mechanical person he was shown as he was depicted,” said Gold color in an oral history from 1981 for John F. Kennedy library.

In 1966, Mr. Goldfarb founded his legal practice gold color & associates. Two years later, Herr Goldfarb planned when delegations for Kennedy in Chicago to search for a seat as delegations for Kennedy in Chicago. “And before I could do something,” recalled Mr. Goldfarb, “he was killed.”

Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968 when he left the ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the democratic presidential regulations in California. He died the next day. The shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, remains in prison.

The other books by Mr. Goldfarb are “The Performance Power” (1963) on the use of contempt for judicial provisions; “Ransom: A criticism of the American deposit system” (1966) and “TV or not TV: television, justice and dishes” (1998).

As a documentary filmmaker, he helped develop “desperate hours” (2001), a report on the role of Türkiye in the rescue of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, which was led by Victoria Barrett.

The survivors include his 68 -year -old Ms. Joanne Jacob Goldfarb; Sons Nick and Matt; Daughter Jody; and seven grandchildren.

In 1963 the governor of Mississippi, Ross R. Barnett, was charged with criminal contempt for disability of court orders to reduce the University of Mississippi. Barnett's supporters in the congress cited passages from Mr. Goldfarbs book “Die Mädsungsption” to claim a judicial over -control.

Mr. Goldfarb was so worrying that he asked for a meeting with Robert Kennedy to apologize. Kennedy listened and then asked Mr. Goldfarb to sign a copy of his book. (The charges against Barnett were dropped years later.)

“Instead of being a strong moment when he would be conceivable for my resignation,” he recalled in the oral history of 1981, “converted into an act of friendship.”