Fink was a founder and senior partner at the Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink, a civil rights,
prisoner rights and criminal defense firm in Brooklyn, New York. The Attica lawsuit consumed much of her time until 2000, when prisoners won a $12 million judgment from the state of New York but received neither an apology nor admission of responsibility from the state. Fink has also represented other prisoners and political radicals. In 1989, she and others secured acquittals for members of
the Ohio 7, political radicals who were charged under a federal seditious conspiracy statute. Along with attorneys
Sarah Kunstler (Kunstler's father,
William Kunstler, had long been a mentor of Fink) and Jesse Berman, Fink represented
Osama Awadallah, a
Palestinian college student studying in the United States, who was arrested as a
material witness in the days following the
September 11, 2001 attacks and prosecuted for alleged
perjury before the
grand jury investigating the terrorist attacks. Awadallah was acquitted in November 2006. Also in 2006, Fink represented
Lynne Stewart during sentencing after Stewart's conviction for violating special communication measures involving client
Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Fink secured a sentence of 28 months, but that was later increased to ten years. but Ferhani in 2012 pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy and weapons possession charges. Fink died of a heart attack on September 22, 2015 in New York City, at the age of 70. ==
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