Norman Siegel (1st 1/3 hr) & Leonard Stern - 01-29-86 Original air date

Norman Siegel (1 1/2 hr.) & Leonard Stern 01-29-86 Original air date.
Norman Siegel (born 1943) was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000.
Siegel attended Brooklyn College and NYU Law School with Rudy Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City and NYCLU's frequent courtroom opponent.
Since ending his work at the NYCLU, Siegel entered private practice and has represented various activist groups including RodStarz and G1 of Rebel Diaz, Critical Mass, residents fighting the expansion of Columbia University and families against the Rudy Giuliani's 2008 campaign for President of the United States. He also frequently wrote op-ed columns at major New York City newspapers, such as the New York Times, Newsday, the New York Daily News, and the Amsterdam News. Siegel has taught a class at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York and has served on the boards of many foundations.
In 2001, Siegel ran for New York City Public Advocate and lost to Betsy Gotbaum in a runoff. In 2005, he ran again, but was likewise unsuccessful. He is again a candidate in the 2009 election.
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Leonard Norman Stern is the Chairman and CEO of the privately owned Hartz Group based in New York City. Additionally, he oversees operations of the extensive Hartz real estate portfolio owned and operated under its Hartz Mountain Industries subsidiary company, of which he also serves as Chairman and CEO. Under his forty plus years of leadership, Hartz Mountain Industries, which began as a hobby for Stern, acquiring land in New Jersey's Meadowlands during the 1950s and 60s, has built and currently owns over 38,000,000 square feet (3,500,000 m2) of office, industrial, hotel and retail properties in over 200 buildings, including major developments on the New Jersey Hudson River waterfront, and across northern New Jersey. Based in Secaucus, NJ, Hartz Mountain Industries has added property in Manhattan, Westchester, NY, Long Island, NY, and Maryland. In addition to its property operations through its 'Industries' subsidiary, The Hartz Group has an active and growing financial operation.

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