Mr. Gregory S. Gordon

Hosted by Steve Kraske, the other guests on the program were John Shattuck, CEO of the JFK Library Foundation and author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton Administration, and Gregory S. Gordon, Senior Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations.
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Gordon served in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda.

We'll talk with Dr. Mary Johnson, Senior Program Associate with Facing History and Ourselves, an educational organization based in Brookline, MA, John Shattuck, CEO of the JFK Library Foundation and author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton Administration, and Gregory S. Gordon, Senior Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations.
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Gordon served in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda.

"He belonged to a movement hostile to the United States, he misrepresented facts in the visa application process and ... he acquiesced in conduct contrary to civilization and human decency," said Gregory S. Gordon, a prosecutor in the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations.

A guilty verdict would cost Firishchak his citizenship and could force him to leave the country.
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"Ukrainian Auxiliary Policemen, including members of Mr. Firishchak's First Commissariat, helped herd Jews into a ghetto ... and they escorted Jews to forced labor camps and trains destined for killing centers," Gordon said.

Although prosecutors have not accused Firishchak of direct involvement in any atrocities, they do allege that he personally rounded up members of his unit who, the following day, began forcing Jews into the Lviv ghetto.
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Firishchak has admitted to federal authorities that the signatures are his, Gordon said.

* Gregory Gordon: Senior Trial Attorney for the Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations, prosecuting Nazi and other war criminals; on the prosecution team for the "media case" brought by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Michael J. Bazyler, Whittier Law School, Professor Gregory S. Gordon, Office of Special Investigations, USDOJ, Senior Trial Attorney

* Jonathan Bush, expert on the law of war and law professor, Columbia University * John Q. Barrett, Nuremberg scholar and law professor, St. John's University School of Law * Edward Kissi, leading genocide scholar and professor, Africana Studies, the University of South Florida * Michael J. Bazyler, holocaust scholar and law professor, Whittier Law School * Gregory S. Gordon, trial attorney, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Dept. of Justice, who served in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda

Gregory S. Gordon, trial attorney, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Dept. of Justice

Speaker: Gregory S. Gordon, Senior trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Special Investigations..

With the trials of war criminals in Nuremberg and Tokyo after the end of World War II, the international community was put on notice that large-scale violations of human rights would not go unpunished.After a Cold War hiatus during which the Nuremberg/Tokyo precedents lay moribund, United States' involvement in war crimes prosecutions resumed with the creation of the Office of Special Investigations in 1979.A part of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, OSI institutes legal action against Nazi war criminals who illegally gained entry into the U.S. Using wartime documents, expert historians, and survivor testimony, OSI exposes the defendants' Nazi past in an effort to denaturalize and deport them.

This presentation will focus on the history and contributions of the Office of Special Investigations.In addition, Mr. Gordon will provide examples of specific cases OSI has prosecuted, prospects for the future, and an assessment of OSI's impact on both domestic and international justice.