Hafter kills self at age 42
Ex-candidate had been suspended by high court
Controversial Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter, who made unsuccessful bids for elected office in recent years and was suspended by the Nevada Supreme Court in November, died Tuesday at the age of 42.
Fellow lawyer Robert Draskovich remembered Hafter on Wednesday as a “talented but eccentric attorney.”
Theclarkcounty coroner’s office has ruled Hafter’s death a suicide.
According to a Gofundme page established to raise money for Hafter’s burial costs, he was married and had four children.
Rabbi Shea Harlig said Hafter was charitable and had helped various Jewish organizations and synagogues financially. Harlig had known Hafter since Hafter was in high school but had not talked to him in years.
Harlig said that with Hafter, everything was “black and white.”
“When he felt there was an injustice, nothing stopped him,” the rabbi said.
Hafter was suspended for six months by the high court for lying under oath and making derogatory public comments about a district judge. The suspension was partly a response to a complaint from the State Barofnevada.
The complaint stemmed from comments Hafter made in 2014 about then-district Judge Valorie Vega after she denied his request to alter a twoweek civil trial schedule to accommo-