Arguably the most famous case Bob Frank has handled was the deportation case of Mario Ruiz-Massieu, the former Deputy Attorney General of Mexico.
“The facts of this case read more like a best-selling novel than a typical deportation proceeding,” stated the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Our client’s brother, José Ruiz-Massieu, a high ranking figure in Mexican politics, was a victim of a 1994 assassination.
Mario Ruiz-Massieu was arrested by Customs for an alleged failure to declare currency in 1995. Charges in that case were dropped.
Efforts to extradite Ruiz-Massieu to Mexico were unsuccessful as well.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher personally wrote a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno, claiming that Ruiz-Massieu’s presence in the US would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.
Bob Frank successfully argued that the case for deportation should be terminated nonetheless.
Looking back over a decade later, the immigration case of Mario Ruiz-Massieu is notable for a number of reasons. Our client, obviously an attorney himself, had authored several books; one was titled ”The Legal Framework for the Combat of Drug Trafficking.”
The New York Times covered the case along with countless other media sources. The following is an excerpt from the Times’ piece:
“A former Mexican deputy attorney general is pressing an asylum claim to avoid being sent back to his homeland, where he faces criminal charges of concealing evidence in his brother’s murder.
Mario Ruiz Massieu, once a top narcotics prosecutor, maintains that he will be persecuted and possibly tortured if he is returned to Mexico, said his lawyer, Robert Frank.”
While the case was on appeal, Ruiz-Massieu, who had been placed on house arrest, committed suicide.
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