Jonathan W. Cuneo, a prominent Washington lawyer who represented plaintiffs in major class action, price-fixing and antitrust litigation, died July 26 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard off Cape Cod. He was 70.
After the Justice Department won guilty pleas in 2011 from Japanese auto parts manufacturers who conspired to fix prices on components in more than 25 million cars sold to American consumers, Mr. Cuneo represented car dealers in civil suits against the wrongdoers — a novel antitrust strategy.said in an interview. “In this case, it would be the manufacturers of the cars. And then you think of the end payers. And those are the consumers.
in 1988. In addition to his trial work, he co-founded the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws, the American Antitrust Institute and the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys.as Washington counsel in the sprawling litigation that recovered more than $7 billion for defrauded investors in Enron Corp., the energy and commodities company that went bankrupt amid criminal fraud by executives.In 1997, he was part of a team of litigators who revealed that R.J.
“This is the first case of its type — a class action brought on behalf of Holocaust survivors that charges the U.S. government with improperly disposing of assets,” Mr. Cuneo told the L.A. Times.In 2006, after the funds were dispersed worldwide to financially needy Hungarian Holocaust survivors, Mr.
After graduating from the St. Albans School, he studied economics at Columbia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1974. He graduated from Cornell University’s law school in 1977.at the Federal Trade Commission and counsel to U.S. House Judiciary Committee chairman Peter Rodino .Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Mara Liasson; a daughter from his first marriage, Lucy Sharon Burgett Cuneo; two children from his second marriage, Mia Rose Cuneo and Eli Cuneo; and two grandchildren.
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