Released after five years in a Cuban prison, U.S. Agency for International Development contractor Alan Gross credited his wife Judy and lawyer Scott Gilbert for helping win his freedom.
Represented pro bono by Gilbert, the founding partner of 30-lawyer Gilbert LLP, Gross was jailed for “acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state” and sentenced to 15 years in prison. As a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Gross had been providing Internet access to the island’s small Jewish community.
