A. Jay Cristol (born Ahorn Jay Cristol , 29 September 1929) is a judge, poet, writer, pilot, and lecturer of marine warfare. He served as Special Assistant Attorney General of Florida from 1959 to 1965 and as trustee in bankruptcy from 1977 to 1985. He was appointed judge to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida on April 17, 1985, and served as District Bankruptcy Judge Chief from 1993 to 1999.
Cristol serves his country as a US Navy aviator and captain in the US Naval Reserve, with 38 years of service in various roles as both a pilot operator and an Advocate General Corps (JAG) lawyer.
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Higher education
Cristol accepts B.A. degree from the University of Miami in 1958 and the title of J.D., Cum Laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 1959, where he became a Research Editor of Law Review and other award recipients. (Cristol returned to school in the late 1980s, and received his PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Miami on May 9, 1997.)
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Cristol made his first flight at the Piper J-3 Cub in Biscayne Bay in 1945. He personally had driven the Ford Tri-Motor, the Goodyear Blimp, the Soviet MiG-15, the Czech L-39, the Chinese CJ-6, the French Master Fouga, and many other unique, antique, or historic aircraft.
In November 1951, during the Korean War, Cristol joined the US Navy. After receiving his wings in 1953, he was deployed to the western Pacific and flew a non-combat mission on the Grumman AF Guardian. Upon returning to the US, Cristol leaves active duty and joins the Navy Reserve.
He graduated from Naval Justice School and served as a naval JAG lawyer for twenty years. In 1983, Cristol was appointed honorary professor of the Navy's School of Justice. During the 1980s, he was sent to the International Institute for Humanitarian Law at Sanremo to lecture on Navy War Laws. In 1985, he was appointed head of a US bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Florida.
Researching the Liberty Incident USS
After retiring from the Navy in 1988, Cristol became a civilian lawyer, and served as Florida specialist attorney general. He also returned to school to pursue a Doctorate degree.
While working on Ph.D. thesis (from the late 1980s to the 1990s), Cristol analyzed the official investigation of the incident of the USS Liberty of June 8, 1967, in which Israeli troops accidentally fired on American ships, resulting in significant loss of life. Officially, the Liberty Incident has been investigated by more than a dozen government agencies and government-assigned groups; it is always reported as a tragic accident. Cristol performed over 450 interviews. Freedom of Information Act requests were used to obtain Clark Clifford Report declassification, 22 hot line messages, 22 National Security Agency documents, and 31 National Security Council documents. Cristol can also get secret Israeli documents. The conclusion of his thesis confirmed the official investigation and showed that the attack on the USS Liberty was a mistake.
After completing the course, Cristol continued to pursue information about the event. He sued the National Security Agency under the Freedom of Information Act. In 2004, the agency released an audio cassette that had been collected by the NSA unit over the Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star Naval aircraft that flew near the scene of the USS Liberty attack. Furthermore, Cristol published his analysis in 2002 as a book about the attack, "Liberty Incident: 1967 Attack on US Navy Ships." Cristol concluded that the record shows the attack was an accident, and that the Israelis thought the ship was an Egyptian ship. On October 2, 2007, however, the Chicago Tribune published a special report on an attack containing many previously unreported quotes from former military personnel with first-hand knowledge of the incident. The report cast doubt on Cristol's conclusions.
Civil career
Cristol is currently a professor at the University of Miami School of Law where he teaches advanced bankruptcy courses. He serves on the Bankruptcy Committee of the Eleventh Circuit and in the Judicial Law Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules. He has taught US bankruptcy law to foreign judges from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Thailand. He also teaches judges from Russia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and South Africa, under various programs for the Department of Foreign Affairs, USAID, the Institute of Bankruptcy and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He has published numerous articles on law, aviation, history, and other subjects.
O.J. Simpson and other important rules
Judge Cristol has led many cases of high profile bankruptcies and related processes. These include Chapter 11 reorganization of the General Development Corporation (one of the largest reorganizations in US history), Prime Motor Inns, Flannigans, Banco Latino International, Arrow Air, and Pan American Airways.
In 2007, Judge Cristol was granted the rights of O.J. The Simpson Book If I Did It to Ronald Goldman's family to meet $ 38 million wrong death judgment against Simpson.
Personal
Cristol remains an avid aviator. He is a founding member of the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida and a founding member of the Wings Over Miami Military and Classic Aircraft Museum in Miami, Florida. Cristol is a volunteer of Flight Angels, flying people who need transportation to and from regional medical centers for treatment. The May/June 2007 issue of Airliners magazine published a story about Judge Cristol; and Dow Jones featuring Judge Cristol on January 2, 2008 in a three-page article.
Cristol is a Scout, reportedly the first Eagle Scout in Dade County. He spends most of his spare time by volunteering with his wife at the Jewish Home and Hospital of Miami. He was recently referred to as the chief ambassador for Jewish Jewish Homes and Houses.
Awards and honors
During his naval services, Cristol received the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Medal Award, Navy Achievement Medal, Chinese Service Medal, National Defense Medal, Marine Corps and Marine Corps, Overseas Space Medal, Navy Medal Reserve, and Vietnam Service Medal.
In 1998, Pan Am was sold to Guilford Transportation, in a transaction that removed Pan Am from bankruptcy. As a result, the company respects Cristol, who led a rapid reorganization, naming one of their 727-225 aircraft Clipper A. Jay Cristol. After leading the reorganization of Arrow Air, he was honored with having Air Douglas DC-8-62 Arrow named "Judge A. Jay Cristol."
Cristol is a founding member of the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida and a founding member and historian of the Wings Over Miami airplane museum in Miami.
In 2003, the Greater Miami Aviation Association honored Cristol with their Glenn Curtiss Award who recognized the contribution of an individual to enhance the South Florida community.
On February 1, 2007, St. Law School Thomas University honors Cristol with the Extraordinary Journal Award.
Legal promise
- 1951-1988 - United States Navy attorney
- 1959-1985 - Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida. Special Assistant to Florida State Attorney General, 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1965 Legislative Sessions
- 1959-1985 - Cristol, Mishan, Sloto. Parther Senior at commercial law firm
- 1985-Present - United States Bankruptcy Court
- April 17, 1985 - Appointed US Bankruptcy Court Judge for Florida Southern District
- October 1, 1993 - September 25, 1999 - Appointed as US Chief Justice of the Bankruptcy Court
- September 25, 1999 - Appointed Judge for second term of 14 years until 2013
Academic assignment
- 1983 - Honorary Law Professor, Naval United States Naval Justice School. Law Lecturer of Naval Warfare at the International Humanitarian Law Institute, San Remo, Italy
- 1988 to Now - Young Professor of Law at University of Miami Law School
- 1994 - Bankrutpcy Law Instructor to Russian Judges for National Bankruptcy Judge Conference, Atlanta
- 1995 - Bankruptcy Law Instructor to Judge from Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Thailand and South Africa to National Bankruptcy Judge Conference, New Orleans
- 1996 - Instructor of Bankruptcy Law Judge Instructor of Slovenia for US-sponsored Justice Development Program. Department of State, and Institute of Bankruptcy America, Slovenia
- 1996 - Instructor of Bankruptcy Law to the Czech Republic Judge for the Justice Program Development sponsored by the US Department of State, and the American Institute of Bankruptcy, Czech Republic
Publications
- "Theoretical Law Problems in Transforming the Military Industrial Complex of Central and Eastern Europe into a Free Market Economy," 27 Basic Notes, Naval War College (Spring 1996).
- The Liberty Incident (1997), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Miami.
- Alchemical Bankruptcy: Conversion from Nothing to Gold Opportunities. St. Thomas Law Review 9 (1997): 305. (with Ali Sarmiento Walden)
- The Liberty Incident: 1967 Attack on the US Navy Ship . Washington (DC): Brassey's Military, 2002. ISBNÃ, 1-574-88536-7 OCLCÃ, 49249144
- "The USS Liberty and the Role of Intelligence". United States Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Vol. XIX, Dept. Of State (Washington D.C. 2004). Cristol, Castle and Hadden.
Affiliate
Members: Florida Bar, Dade County Bar, American Bar, and Bankruptcy Bar for the Southern District of Florida.
Waqf and charity work
Cristol recently made a $ 2 million commitment to creating "Judge A. Jay Cristol Endowed in Bankruptcy" at the University of Miami School of Law. This gift is the second major contribution of Judge Cristol to Miami Law; in 2012 he made a leadership prize against the school bankruptcy clinic, now known as Eleanor R. Cristol and Judge A. Jay Cristol, Bankruptcy Pro Bono Assistance Clinic.
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