[2] Barcella sought an internship at the Justice Department in his second year of law school, but with none available, was offered a full-time job on graduation instead.
"[3] These cases included the Letelier assassination (1976), the twin bombings in Beirut in 1983 of a US barracks and the US embassy, and the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking.
[3] In 1985 Barcella gave a legal opinion to an unnamed government official on giving go-ahead to an Iran-Contra-related weapons shipment: "a private $5 million shipment of Soviet-bloc rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers to the Nicaraguan contras – 10 months after Congress had cut off government support to the contras."
[4] Barcella was a partner at Laxalt, Washington, Perito & Dubuc before moving to Katten Muchin & Zavis in July 1991.
[5][6] At Washington, Perito & Dubuc he played "a key role in BCCI's legal defense following the money laundering indictment in Tampa.