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Top Law Dept. Official Prepares to Close Case

By MARK TOOR
Posted 5/4/15

One of the achievements Jeffrey D. Friedlander is most proud of from his 44 years at the city Law Department came from his work on legislation aimed at fighting apartheid in South Africa.

The city passed a law in 1985, starting a national movement. It required that city pension funds sell off any investment in companies doing business with South Africa’s white-supremacy regime unless they signed a non-discrimination pledge.

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