Mangione's "Learned Counsel"
Death penalty specialist Avi Moskowitz joins Luigi Mangione's legal team
Last week, a magistrate judge appointed Avraham Moskowitz to Luigi Mangione’s legal team as one of two lawyers Mangione is entitled to as an indicted defendant in a federal case potentially involving the death penalty1.
So who is Avi Moskowitz and what does he bring to this case?
I suspect many readers may be too young to remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured upwards of a thousand people. The man responsible for this act of terror was a Pakistani man named Ramzi Yusef, who managed to evade capture for two years following the attack and participate in several more terrorist plots. To say Yusef’s subsequent trial was one of the biggest legal stories of the 90s would be an understatement.
A young Avi Moskowitz was Yousef’s court-appointed lawyer. Although Business Insider and other outlets have made much of Moskowitz’s representation of Ramzi Yousef, the fact is that he only represented Yousef for a very short period of time—days, actually. In Feb…