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Theodore Roosevelt

Gavriel Mairone is the founder of MM~LAW LLC, a law firm dedicated to advancing private human rights law by representation of victims of terrorism, crimes against humanity and genocide in private lawsuits to force accountability upon the financiers and aiders and abettors of the perpetrators of such crimes. Mairone has created a counterterrorism research group to support such litigation that conducts legal operational research on international money laundering and finance of jihadi terrorist organizations in Arabic, Farsi, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew. MM~LAW particularly focuses on confronting the international financial and support infrastructure aiding and abetting the various terrorist organizations connected with global jihad. Mairone has 29 years legal experience, specializing in international taxation and business planning and over the last decade specializing in international and US human rights and tort law. Admitted to practice in Illinois, Florida and Israel. Education: LL.M. Taxation New York University Graduate School of Law; J.D. Illinois Institute of Technology; Chicago Kent College of Law Summa Cum Laude. Gavriel Mairone is an expert in international terrorist financing and a pioneer in the development of legal remedies available to terror victims.

Yekutiel Hadar, Special Counsel, has extensive field experience in counterterrorism and jihadi terrorist organizations. Prior to joining MM~LAW, Hadar served for 26 years with the Israel Security Agency. His experience with the ISA includes Field Operations and Investigations, Manager of Intelligence Operations, Legal Counsel, and Chief Legal Counsel for the Northern District of Israel. Admitted to practice in Israel. Education:  B.S.C., Biology Hebrew University of Jerusalem; LL.B. College of Management; M.A., Political Science National Security, Public Administration University of Haifa. Languages: Hebrew, English, Arabic.

Deborah R. Srour, Special Counsel, specializes in representation of major international banks compliance and implementation of fraud/money laundering/terror financing prevention programs. Her areas of expertise include money laundering prevention, terror financing and bank fraud, international commercial agreements, cross-border transactions and commercial law. Srour is a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo Law School-International Law Graduate Course in comparative law and litigation in the US. She also teaches courses in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a speaker on Corporate and Banking Compliance at the Practicing Law Institute in New York. Srour has written extensively about money laundering, bank fraud, the Patriot Act, and the Sarbanes-Oxely Act. She is a frequent legal commentator on Brazilian, French and Spanish Bloomberg television. Admitted to practice in Brazil, New York. Education: Masters Degree (lato sensu) from the University of Sao Paulo in International Law and a LL.B from the University of Sao Paulo Law School. Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Hebrew.

Bena N. Ochs, attorney, specializes in human rights and counterterrorism litigation. Prior to joining MM~LAW Ochs served as in-house attorney at AIG, New York main office; in-house litigation counsel Empire/Allcity Insurance Company and subsequently at New York plaintiff law firms. Admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and Israel. Education: J.D. Brooklyn Law School; B.A. Queens College of the City of New York. Languages: English, Hebrew.

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