The Melbourne Age reports that Victorian police have released an image of a man wanted for questioning over the violent attack on prominent Melbourne lawyer …..
Alex Lewenberg. in his city apartment.
Mr Lewenberg, 68, was seriously assaulted on Tuesday morning by a man suspected of wearing a knuckle duster and brandishing a sword.
The solicitor was lucky not lose an eye or suffer brain damage in the attack at about 9am in the Little Lonsdale Street apartment above his firm’s offices.
Mr Lewenberg told The Age last week that in the bloody struggle, which lasted about 20 minutes, he may have broken his attacker’s nose.
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It appears that Mr Lewenberg is no angel either.. this report on website Melbourne Crime.com?? suggests to us that? some part of his past may have caught up with him
The site writes:
Two charges of perjury against colourful Melbourne legal identity Alex Lewenberg were dismissed in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in 1982.
In 1989 Mr Lewenberg was banned from practising as a solicitor for two years after he was found guilty of three unrelated charges of serious professional misconduct.
A Supreme Court judge described Mr Lewenberg then as “wilfully reckless of his professional responsibility” and found he had acted disgracefully and dishonourably as a solicitor.
Lewenberg was not in the dock during the marathon 2000 drug trial of Boris Beljajev, but he was accused of being Mr Beljajev’s accomplice.
The Crown claimed the city solicitor was the legal adviser to Mr Beljajev’s alleged heroin trafficking business.
Mr Beljajev was found not guilty of commercial heroin trafficking on October 11, 2000.
Senior prosecutor Brind Woinarski, QC, told the jury at the opening of the trial in July 1999 that Mr Lewenberg’s Queen St office was under audio and video surveillance by a joint police task force in 1988.
An earlier court hearing was told a police surveillance team followed and photographed Mr Lewenberg when he was in Queensland with Mr Beljajev during a police taskforce investigation.
“Like all big businesses, you need a solicitor,” Mr Woinarski told the jury.
“This business had a solicitor. It had Mr Lewenberg.”
Prosecutor Richard Pirrie also claimed Mr Lewenberg tried to “derail” committal proceedings against one of Mr Beljajev’s alleged main dealers, Alex Ristic, by planning false defences after Ristic was arrested in 1988.
Mr Pirrie told the court Mr Lewenberg was heard on tapes secretly recorded in his city office “talking about burning Alex Ristic alive if he blabs to the police about Beljajev”.
