Cameron Stracher is a writer, law professor, and media lawyer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and teaches at New York Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he worked for one year at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and taught legal writing at the University of Iowa College of Law. Moving to New York City, he then spent five years at CBS, where he specialized in First Amendment litigation and other legal issues facing the media. Until August 2004, he was a partner at the law firm of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in New York City. He later became general counsel of American Media, Inc.[1] In 2011 he published a novel entitled The Water Wars.

When Attorney Stracher was General Counsel for American Media, Inc., (AMI) when AMI’s CEO David Pecker was helping Donald Trump with his “catch and kill” scheme regarding former Playboy model Karen McDougal and her story about her affair with Trump. Cameron Stracher was part of the scheme to pay Karen McDougal hush money payments on behalf of Trump to silence her and protect Donald Trump. According to the New York Post Stracher arranged the $150,000 hush money payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.[2] As investigative reporter Ronan Farrow reported: “In an e-mail on January 30th, A.M.I.’s general counsel, Cameron Stracher, talked about renewing her contract and putting her on a new magazine cover. The subject line of the e-mail read, ‘McDougal contract extension.’ Crawford told me, ‘They got worried that she was going to start talking again, and they came running to her’.” [3] AMI was fined $187,500 because David Pecker and Cameron Stracher’s efforts to silence McDougal was, in effect, an illegal campaign contribution to Trump.[4]

Also, Attorney Stracher negotiated the deal where AMI obtained the private salacious text messages between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend.[5] Bezos described the publication of the text messages as an extortion attempt, and his 25 year marriage ended shortly after it was revealed AMI had them.

In 2017 Attorney Cameron Stracher cleared Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of the National Enquirer which was owned by AMI, of sexually harassing employees of the publication. Mr. Howard, whose nickname was Dildo, was accused of openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, discussed female employees’ sex lives and forced women to watch or listen to pornographic material. Cameron Stracher said he did an investigation and cleared Dylan Howard stating that what he did was merely horsing around.[6]

Cameron Stracher is currently being sued for breaching his fiduciary duties. The lawsuit is Brodsky v. Cameron Stracher et. al., 22cv03283 (NDIL), which is pending in the Northern District of Illinois. Stracher's motion to dismiss that lawsuit was denied on October 23, 2023.

References

  • Stracher, Cameron (2007). Dinner with Dad: How I Found my Way back to the Family Table. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-400-06537-0.
  • Stracher, Cameron (1998). Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair. New York: William Morrow & Co. ISBN 0-688-14759-3.
  • Stracher, Cameron (1996). The Laws of Return. New York: William Morrow & Co. ISBN 0-688-14902-2.
  • Stracher, Cameron (2011) The Water Wars, William Morrow & Co., Illinois
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