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In the 1980s, Goldberg was well known on [[Wall Street]], earning the nicknames "Abba Dabba Do" and "Abba Cadabra" for his investment skills.<ref name=SFGN>Norm Kent, ''National Anti-Gay Leader Is a Convicted Felon, Con Man'' in [http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/news/national-news/547-ex-gay-is-ex-con.html South Florida Gay News], February 15, 2010</ref>
In the 1980s, Goldberg was well known on [[Wall Street]], earning the nicknames "Abba Dabba Do" and "Abba Cadabra" for his investment skills.<ref name=SFGN>Norm Kent, ''National Anti-Gay Leader Is a Convicted Felon, Con Man'' in [http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/news/national-news/547-ex-gay-is-ex-con.html South Florida Gay News], February 15, 2010</ref>


As Executive Vice President and a major stockholder of Matthews Wright Inc.,<ref>[http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/115/115.F3d.722.96-70037.html United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit]</ref> he was involved in a financial scandal. He and another man were [[indictment|indicted]] on "52 counts of [[bribery]], conspiracy and [[fraud]] in connection with $2 billion in [[municipal bonds]]" to finance single family housing in Guam.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19880205&id=lqkcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XWMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4320,1589215 Pittsburgh News], February 5, 1988</ref><ref name=Rominger>[http://www.romingerlegal.com/new_jersey/supreme/d-146-94.opn.html ''IN THE MATTER OF ARTHUR ABBA GOLDBERG, An Attorney at Law'' in]</ref> He pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States of America. In 1989, Goldberg was fined $100,000 and sentenced to 18 months in prison on conviction of fraud.<ref name=SFGN /> Immediately following his conviction for fraud, Goldberg was suspended from practising law in the state of New Jersy.<ref name="Rominger"/> He was subsequently disbarred from practising law in the state of New Jersy because "his criminal convictions clearly and convincingly demonstrate his participation in activities that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness and fitness as a lawyer.<ref name="Rominger"/>
As Executive Vice President and a major stockholder of Matthews Wright Inc.,<ref>[http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/115/115.F3d.722.96-70037.html United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit]</ref> he was involved in a financial scandal. He and another man were [[indictment|indicted]] on "52 counts of [[bribery]], conspiracy and [[fraud]] in connection with $2 billion in [[municipal bonds]]" to finance single family housing in Guam.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19880205&id=lqkcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XWMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4320,1589215 Pittsburgh News], February 5, 1988</ref><ref name=Rominger>[http://www.romingerlegal.com/new_jersey/supreme/d-146-94.opn.html ''IN THE MATTER OF ARTHUR ABBA GOLDBERG, An Attorney at Law'' in]</ref> He pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States of America. In 1989, Goldberg was fined $100,000 and sentenced to 18 months in prison on conviction of fraud.<ref name=SFGN /> Immediately following his conviction for fraud, Goldberg was suspended from practising law in the state of New Jersy.<ref name="Rominger"/> He was subsequently disbarred from practising law in the state of New Jersey because "his criminal convictions clearly and convincingly demonstrate his participation in activities that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness and fitness as a lawyer.<ref name="Rominger"/>


Following his conviction, fines, and jail term, Goldberg stopped using the name "Arthur Abba Goldberg" and began instead using "Arthur Goldberg" and "Arthur A. Goldberg".<ref name=SFGN />
Following his conviction, fines, and jail term, Goldberg stopped using the name "Arthur Abba Goldberg" and began instead using "Arthur Goldberg" and "Arthur A. Goldberg".<ref name=SFGN />

Revision as of 03:51, 24 November 2012

Arthur Abba Goldberg (born 1940) is an American attorney, businessman and leader in the ex-gay movement. He is the former Executive Secretary of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), co-founder and co-director of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), president of Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality (PATH) and principal of the Center for Gender Affirming Processes (CGAP).[1][2][3]

Education

He received his B.A. majoring in Government, with a minor in English from American University with general honors, and a J.D. from Cornell University where he wrote for the Cornell Law Review and was also the editor of the Cornell Law Forum from 1964 to 1965. He was professor at the Connecticut University law school and Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey.[4]

Business activities and conviction for fraud

In the 1980s, Goldberg was well known on Wall Street, earning the nicknames "Abba Dabba Do" and "Abba Cadabra" for his investment skills.[5]

As Executive Vice President and a major stockholder of Matthews Wright Inc.,[6] he was involved in a financial scandal. He and another man were indicted on "52 counts of bribery, conspiracy and fraud in connection with $2 billion in municipal bonds" to finance single family housing in Guam.[7][8] He pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States of America. In 1989, Goldberg was fined $100,000 and sentenced to 18 months in prison on conviction of fraud.[5] Immediately following his conviction for fraud, Goldberg was suspended from practising law in the state of New Jersy.[8] He was subsequently disbarred from practising law in the state of New Jersey because "his criminal convictions clearly and convincingly demonstrate his participation in activities that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness and fitness as a lawyer.[8]

Following his conviction, fines, and jail term, Goldberg stopped using the name "Arthur Abba Goldberg" and began instead using "Arthur Goldberg" and "Arthur A. Goldberg".[5]

Activism

Since the 1960s, Goldberg has been involved in community service and was active in resettling immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.[9] In 1974, he founded the Committee for the Absorption of Soviet Emigres in Jersey City.[10]

Details of Goldberg's convictions resurfaced in February 2010, when an investigative report by Truth Wins Out and South Florida Gay News revealed that Arthur Abba Goldberg was the same Arthur A. Goldberg of JONAH, a connection that had not yet been made public.[5]

Views on homosexuality

While attending New York University, Goldberg's son and the son of Elaine Berk both came out as gay. Goldberg and Berk found that much of the ex-gay movement was strongly associated with charismatic Christianity. Wanting a spiritual alternative for same-sex attracted Jews, they co-founded Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH).[3] In the 1960s, Goldberg traveled to the American South, and now "employs the language of civil rights to argue that people should have the right to change their sexuality."[3]

Goldberg "uses Jewish law texts and scientific study to get to the individual root causes of same sex attraction and help those who are unhappy with their lifestyle reassert their gender identity and change their life."[4][11] In 2008, he wrote Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change.[12] In the book, Goldberg claims that there is no genetic cause of homosexuality, and argues that homosexual orientation can be changed, as performed in reparative therapists .

References

  1. ^ NARTH: NARTH Officers, retrieved 16 February 2010.
  2. ^ Homosexuality: JONAH offers choice Seth Mandel, The Jewish State, November 9, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Tanya Erzen, Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-gay Movement, University of California Press, 2006, pp. 48-49, 149-150; ISBN 0-520-24582-2, ISBN 978-0-520-24582-2.
  4. ^ a b Seth Mandel, Homosexuality: JONAH Offers Choice in The Jewish State, November 2007.
  5. ^ a b c d Norm Kent, National Anti-Gay Leader Is a Convicted Felon, Con Man in South Florida Gay News, February 15, 2010
  6. ^ United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  7. ^ Pittsburgh News, February 5, 1988
  8. ^ a b c IN THE MATTER OF ARTHUR ABBA GOLDBERG, An Attorney at Law in
  9. ^ Syllabus by the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, December, 1995
  10. ^ "Soviet Dissidents Finding Happiness in Jersey City". The Palm Beah Post. May 3, 1978. p. C2. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
  11. ^ Richard Cohen, Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing, InterVarsity Press, 2007; pp. 69-75, ISBN 0-8308-3437-0, ISBN 978-0-8308-3437-2.
  12. ^ Red Heifer Press, retrieved February 16, 2010, cf A Jewish Perspective on Can Same-Sex Attraction Change at Arutz Sheva.

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