Doing Time With Ron Kuby

Ronald L. Kuby was a longtime associate of radical lawyer William M. Kunstler. Mr. Kuby won a 43-million dollar judgment against subway gunman Bernhard Goetz. He was defense counsel to, among others, Black Rage gunman Colin Ferguson, the blind Muslim cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Six Degrees of Separation imposter David Hampton, and former head of the Latin Kings Antonio Fernandez. He won an acquittal for Tawfiyq Abdul-Aziz who was charged with shooting a white police officer in the face. The jury found Mr. Abdul-Aziz not guilty of shooting a police officer and found him not guilty of possessing the weapon he did not use. Kuby won freedom for Anthony Faison and Charles Shepherd who spent 14 years in prison for a crime they did not commit and a $3.3 million dollar settlement in a wrongful conviction lawsuit for these same two men. Kuby got the conviction of Carmine Carini overturned based on newly-discovered evidence. Carini walked out of court with Kuby on June 12, 2007 after serving twenty-three years. Kuby successfully defended photographer Spencer Tunick when the Giuliani administration continually arrested him to stop photo-shoots of naked participants on the streets of the City of New York. Tunick went on to have two HBO movies made about his work and has become an internationally known and respected artist. On April 2, 2008, Kuby and associate David Pressman walked out of Rikers Island with Michael Clancy after getting Clancy’s conviction vacated. Clancy had spent the last decade in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Mr. Kuby has represented dozens of defendants charged with leftist political violence from Puerto Rican independence fighters to members of American communist groups. He has successfully sued the City of New York in numerous civil rights cases involving police misconduct, including winning a half million dollars for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. He is special counsel to the Uniformed Firefighters Association of NYC.

Kuby was co-host of the popular Curtis & Kuby morning show, a left-right debate talk show, heard on WABC radio in New York from May 1, 2000 until Kuby was fired on November 1, 2007, to make way for Don Imus. Of his firing, Kuby commented, “Don Imus makes a racist comment, a civil rights lawyer gets fired, and he gets an eight month vacation and my job!” Kuby currently works as a guest anchor for Tru TV’s In Session (formerly Court TV).

In 1996, Kuby applied for a security clearance. As part of the process then Judge (now you know who) Michael B. Mukasey told the FBI that, “Based on his own experience, Kuby is completely untrustworthy” and “he could not imagine anyone who would be less trustworthy with sensitive information than Kuby.”

Kuby did not get the clearance. America’s secrets are safe.

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