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"That same evening, a stone's throw from his offices, he gave me
go to one of the oldest steakhouses in
Manhattan, an institution in New York, cozy, jazzy,
deliciously retro just right: Gallaghers.
Mr. Kleefield takes off his glasses and tells me about his life.
His grandfather, Edmond KLEEFIELD, is none other,
in the 1930s, that the banker of the King of the Belgians
Leopold III. Banker in New York and with his brothers
Henri and Gaston also stockbrokers at 3 Rue
of the Congress in Brussels. They manage the King's cash in
multiple currencies. The Kleefeld family is distinguished by
patronage towards emeritus students of the Faculty of
medicine of Brussels by awarding each year the
Armand KLEEFIELD prize in memory of the little
Armand died of typhus at the age of twenty-one.
Edmond KLEEFELD is also the banker of the
Jewish Community of Brussels. A heavy
responsibility in this emerging Europe
dangerously neo-Nazi. It helps, supports, finances
dozens of Jewish families in Belgium. He is the pillar
of the Kleefeld family, and that evening when recalling his
grandson can't hold back a tear.
In 1940 the Kleefield family was forced into exile.
The family assets will be sequestered and
unfortunately several members will be deported
and murdered in the death camps. For me
Kleefield, saved at the last minute by his grandfather, this
will be New York via the Atlantic Clipper of the Panham a
October 18, 1940, at just 10 years old, then Cornell
Law School and admission to the New York Bar
in 1954.
He then founded his firm and very quickly joined the ten law
firm leaders in Manhattan for three
decades. But to succeed, whether in Paris or in New
York means agreeing to pay the price: three decades
where he had to fight fiercely to continue to exist
so much jealousy was present like that day when the
federal troops landed, taking with them all the
office files to finally have to do
backtracking on the judge's decision: arbitrariness
combined with anti-Semitism; orchestrated harassment
by the New York bar against a man
employing around twenty employees alone,
fiercely attached to its independence, refusing
any form of association even if it
would come from the New York Bar.
In 1981, the French left took power: the
USA once again becomes a land of exile and refuge for
a good number of French bosses; Kleefield
registers up to one hundred companies per month!
During his presidential term, Ronald Reagan
agrees to return a person to the border
African national in a cattle car.
Kleefield, ensuring the defense of the homeless, snatches a
historic victory proving to skeptics that the “
little Jew” from Manhattan can also bring
the American establishment.
In 1986, in a real estate face-to-face, Donald
Trump, deluded by his financial arrogance and his
army of lawyers, will also bite the dust:
KLEEFIELD will defend tenants
expelled forcing the “king” of concrete to respect the
law, compensate and rehouse the victims.
Tough guy… and with a lot of ideas:
dessert time he whispers in my ear part of
my life. He offers me law and business: lawyer and
investment banker. According to him, if I combine law and
finance, I have a pair like in poker.
He and New York State can give me all of this.
The challenge is significant."
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