ZGram - 9/5/2003 - "Holocaust Restitution Leader Disbarred by Court After Investigation Of Job Misconduct"

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Restitution Leader Disbarred by Court After Investigation Of Job
Misconduct, [Jewish] Forward, September 5, 2003

"The former top American professional of an international Holocaust
restitution commission has been disbarred. The move comes one year after
the official, Neal Sher, former chief of staff in the Washington office of
the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, was
investigated by the commission for allegedly misappropriating funds for
personal use. The investigation was launched after Sher admitted
"unauthorized reimbursements of his ICHEIC travel expenses," according to
sources and an internal document written by the commission's chairman,
former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger. On August 28, 2003, the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals ordered Sher "disbarred by consent
effective forthwith" from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
The order does not specify the reasons for his disbarment, but Sher signed
an affidavit consenting to it. A consent affidavit is submitted when an
attorney is the subject of an "investigation or a pending proceeding based
on allegations of misconduct," according to a rule of the D.C. bar
association that was cited in the court order ...

As director of the Office of Special Investigations of the United States
Department of Justice, Sher handled the denaturalization and deportation of
dozens of onetime Nazi war criminals. He headed an investigation into the
Nazi past of Austrian president Kurt Waldheim and is credited for
Waldheim's placement on the watch list of persons ineligible to enter the
United States. In 1994 Sher became the top executive of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, which he led for two years. Steinberg praised
Sher's work at the Justice Department: "Neal Sher has literally, not
figuratively, laid down his life for the Jewish people on many occasions. I
know of several death threats against him when he was hunting Nazi war
criminals." But Sher's work at the commission was not as widely admired.
Both during and after his tenure, the commission came under attack from
some survivor groups and congressmen for spending more money on
administrative expenses than on payouts to survivors."

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( Source:  http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.09.05/news5.sher.html )