who is adam kokesh attorney

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Adam Kokesh is represented by Mike Lebowitz and Eric Seitz. Mike Lebowitz is a combat veteran of Iraq, having been deployed in 2005-2006 as a paratrooper in the Pathfinder Company of the 101st Airborne Division. Lebowitz currently serves part-time as a JAG officer in the National Guard. He also is an attorney at the

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Is Adam Kokesh still alive?

Mar 06, 2022 · Mark Downey. Mohammad Tawhidi. v - t - e. Adam Charles Kokesh (1982–) is an American libertarian anti-war activist, former TV show host for RT and radio host. His radio show, Adam Versus The Man, focuses on American and international current affairs from an anarcho-libertarian perspective. Kokesh also occasionally discusses conspiracy theories and has had …

What does Adam Kokesh do for a living?

Jan 18, 2018 · Kokesh is a military veteran and prominent activist in the Libertarian community who has previously run for Congress and faced charges. Online, supporters have called for his release and are ...

What is Adam Kokesh running for President?

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Who is Adam Kokesh's father?

Oct 29, 2013 · Kokesh’s story, which was already unusual enough, took another strange turn last week. On Wednesday, his attorney, Peter Cooper, quit the case without giving a reason. Those close to Kokesh are shocked. “Cooper is a buddy of Adam and represents him whenever he gets in D.C. trouble,” said Phillips.

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Why was Kokesh arrested?

Shortly after, Kokesh was held in custody for three months as a result of deliberately violating Washington D.C. laws by carrying and loading a firearm on July 4, 2013. He was also charged for the possession of cannabis and hallucinogenic mushrooms in his home where he was arrested.

What did Kokesh plead guilty to?

Kokesh pleaded guilty to charges of drug possession and violating firearm laws at his November 2013 trial. This plea was made in exchange for a far more lenient punishment. In doing so, he broke a promise made in a letter sent from prison that he'd do his utmost to make an example of the government when his case went to court.

What is Kokesh's reputation?

Kokesh has something of a reputation where inconsistency is concerned. An example of this specifically involves the US Constitution. Kokesh has consistently stated that it should be called an "anti-freedom" document and called its enactment a "step back from freedom .".

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Overview

Activism

In February 2007, he became an active participant in the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). On March 19, to mark the 4th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Kokesh and twelve other IVAW members participated in an occupation-like mock patrol of Washington, D.C.
Kokesh first came to national attention after he was interviewed on CNN and A…

Early life

Adam Kokesh was born on February 1, 1982, in San Francisco, California. He was raised in a Jewish middle-class family, and is the oldest of five siblings. His parents divorced when he was 10, after which Kokesh says he took refuge in punk rock.
His father, Charles Kokesh, is a businessman, trophy hunter, and at one time the owner of Santa Fe Horse Park.

2010 New Mexico 3rd Congressional District bid

On October 15, 2009, Kokesh filed with the FEC to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico's 3rd congressional district as a Republican.
He finished second in the Republican primary with 29 percent of the vote, losing the nomination to businessman Tom Mullins, who went on to lose the November general election to incumbent Democrat Ben Ray Luján.

FREEDOM!

While in jail after his 2013 arrest stemming from his civil disobedience at Freedom Plaza, Kokesh began work on his book FREEDOM!
Kokesh got the idea for the book while reading other libertarian tracts during his stay in jail. The book advocates for the use of cryptocurrency and claims the safest populace is a well-armed one. FREEDOM! was published on Independence Day (July 4) in 2014.

2020 presidential campaign

On July 23, 2013, Kokesh announced his candidacy for U.S. president in 2020 from a jailhouse interview with Fox 5, after he was arrested for the Open Carry incident earlier that month. He stated he was running on the single-issue idea of an "orderly dissolution of the U.S. Federal Government". He was the first Libertarian Party candidate to announce a presidential bid for the 2020 election.

Adam vs. The Man

Adam vs. The Man was a talk show which was available in a variety of formats, such as AM radio, web-access, podcast and Facebook-linked YouTube channel. Initially airing in 2011 as an evening two-hour broadcast on KIVA AM 1550 talk radio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Adam vs. The Man then shifted to a half-hour video news format on RT before fully moving to the internet as an hour-long video podcast. On April 7, 2014, AVTM 4.0 was launched from Los Angeles, California, and …

Film appearances

Kokesh appears in the role of "A Soldier" in the 2016 film The Prey, and as himself in the documentaries The Road to Fallujah (2008), For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty (2009), Owned & Operated (2012), Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree (2012), ShadowRing (2015), and Gray State: The Rise (2015).
On January 19, 2013, Kokesh appeared as a future version of himself at an anti-war-debt rally sc…