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Judge Lewis Kaplan is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior U.S. district judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He is the judge overseeing former president’s federal defamation trial against writer E. Jean Carroll.
In 2023, he was assigned to Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency case.
When he is not in the courtroom, he can typically be found at home with his wife Lesley Oelsner and many want to know more about her.
Who is Lesley Oelsner ?
Judge Lewis Kaplan wife, Lesley Oelsner is an American journalist, publishing lawyer and a former reporter for The New York Times.
In September 2000, she was vice president and associate general counsel at Random House in Manhattan.
Formerly a reporter and Washington correspondent for The New York Times, she won a George Polk Award in 1972 for articles about court sentencing disparities.
She covered legal affairs and the Supreme Court in Washington for The Times in the mid-1970’s.
Judge Lewis Kaplan’s wife graduated from Smith College and received her law degree from New York University.
Lesley Oelsner parents
She is a daughter of the late Hope Bryan Oelsner and Edward C. Oelsner Jr., who lived in North Palm Beach, Fla.
Her father was the president of the United States Navigation Company, a shipping agent in Manhattan.
All about Lesley Oelsner husband, Judge Lewis Kaplan
Judge Lewis Kaplan has held senior status in Manhattan federal court for over a decade,
He was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Since then, he has overseen numerous high-profile trials and several cases notable in the financial world, including what authorities had described as the first federal bitcoin securities fraud prosecution. Kaplan sentenced the defendant to 18 months in prison.
In 2014, he blocked U.S. courts from being used to collect a $9 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron for rainforest damage, saying lawyers in the case had poisoned an honorable quest with illegal and wrongful conduct.
And in 2012, he delayed his acceptance of a guilty plea by a Utah banker, ordering prosecutors to explain in writing why they were letting the banker plead guilty to a misdemeanor bank gambling charge rather than a felony.
Kaplan has been known over the years to become irritable with lawyers on all sides.
In 1997, he blasted the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, as the government’s immigration department was once known, for not acting fast enough in an asylum case.
