New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to name a lawyer who defended an al-Qaida terrorist and a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University to a top position at City Hall, the New York Post reported Monday.
Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at The City University of New York and a member of Mamdani’s transition team for legal affairs, is the leading candidate for chief counsel, the most senior advisory role in the mayor’s office, according to the Post, which cited a source close to the transition team.
Kassem, 47, helped defend terrorist Ahmed al-Darbi, an al-Qaida member convicted in 2017 for his role in the 2002 bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg off the coast of Yemen.
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