[images and captions added by this website]   Wednesday, August 11, 2004 [Belated update on the Shakedowners]   Ed Fagan with mother of Soweto apartheid victim he was helping, Hector Peterson Holocaust victims' lawyer cited for malpractice in $3.2 million judgment for Brooklyn man   NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer who took a central role in publicizing Holocaust recovery cases has been ordered to pay a $3.2 million malpractice judgment to a Brooklyn man whose personal-injury case he neglected. The award against Edward Fagan, below, outlined in a story published Wednesday [August 11, 2004] in the New York Law Journal, was granted by state Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich in May, court records show. The money is owed to Allen Tavel, 51, who said Fagan neglected his case against Honda Motor Corp. and the manufacturer of a seat belt that allegedly failed during a 1994 accident, leaving him permanently disabled. Fagan has staged numerous news conferences about cases seeking billions of dollars in damages as a result of the Holocaust, apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America. One case against Swiss banks and German corporations culminated in a settlement worth more than $6 billion. Fagan began work on those cases about a year after taking Tavel's case. A message left for Fagan Wednesday was not immediately returned. The judge said Tavel had proven his malpractice case, including that Fagan had sued the wrong parties, had failed to oppose motions by other lawyers in the case, had misled him about the status of the case and had refused to return the case file to him. The judge awarded Tavel $1.16 million for economic loss, $1 million for past pain and suffering and $1 million for future pain and suffering. She said the former dental technician and drummer will remain disfigured, debilitated and unable to work. Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press     ... on this website about Ed Fagan Prominent Holocaust Claims Lawyer Accused of Neglecting Clients Lawyer in Holocaust Case Faces Litany of Complaints Lawsuit Filed Over Artwork Looted By Nazis   ... on this website about another who dined out on the Holocaust, prosecutor Neal Sher Ex OSI chief Neal Sher, caught with hand in till, was sacked from Holocaust Commission: The Forward Holocaust Museum and OSI chieftain Neal Sher dismissed from DC Bar for thieving (Eagleburger pleaded to let him off) Peter Worthington (Toronto Sun) applauds as OSI Nazi-hunter Neal Sher is Disbarred for Fraud and thieving

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