Husband-and-Wife Attorneys Martin and Jane Raskin Join Trump Team
Rudy Giuliani may have gotten all the headlines, but the former New York City mayor and on-again, off-again Greenberg Traurig partner isn't the only new lawyer to join the president's legal team.
April 23, 2018 at 12:39 PM
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Rudy Giuliani may have gotten all the headlines, but the former New York City mayor and on-again, off-again Greenberg Traurig partner isn't the only new lawyer to join the president's legal team.
The other additions — barring any sudden reversals — are Martin and Jane Raskin, a husband-and-wife team at Raskin & Raskin in Coral Gables. Their two-attorney firm's website outlines a bit about the duo's expertise, which often consists of working in the background for corporations.
Martin Raskin was a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and later led the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami before entering private practice and partnering with his wife. After starting her career at a predecessor firm to Bingham McCutchen, Jane Raskin served stints as a federal prosecutor in Boston and as counsel to the assistant attorney general of the criminal division in Washington.
According to their bios, the two met when she was delivering a speech at the American Bar Association National Institute in New Orleans. They married in 1990 and formed their own Florida firm shortly thereafter.
David Weinstein, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson in Coral Gables and a former federal prosecutor in Miami, suggested the Raskins' particular expertise in the Sunshine State may have been a selling point.
Weinstein, who said he has known the Raskins for about 20 years in professional and social settings, said the president may be looking for someone with home-court experience to navigate any legal scrutiny surrounding Trump's holdings in the area.
“For whatever reason, there's always a South Florida connection,” Weinstein said.
While the Raskins' role on President Donald Trump's team remains hazy, Giuliani told CNN his “limited” contributions to the team would be focused on getting special counsel Robert Mueller to end his investigation soon.
The Raskins could be helpful in that regard. Much of their work is done with discretion behind the scenes such as conducting internal corporate investigations, representing clients in grand jury investigations, preparing corporate compliance programs and addressing administrative and regulatory violations.
Their most notable court cases came from their representation of SabreTech Corp., an aviation contractor that loaded unspent, unsecured oxygen generators onto the ValuJet flight that crashed in the Everglades in 1996. Federal investigators determined 144 canisters activated in the cargo hold and either ignited or fueled the fire that caused the crash that killed 110 people.
SabreTech was convicted in federal court and reached a plea deal in state court for its role in handling the generators, which amounted to hazardous waste. An $11 million penalty was imposed after trial in federal court, the state plea agreement called for a $500,000 penalty, and the company went out of business in the wake of the crash.
The new Trump hires come after New York attorney Steven Molo last week reportedly joined the growing ranks of leading lawyers passing on representing Trump.
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