Joe Tacopina has worked for an impressive number of the most notorious accused criminals in America and beyond — almost always to their benefit.
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Alex Rodriguez is not well-liked.
And the evidence that he violated Major League Baseball's performance-enhancing drug policy seems overwhelming. That's where Joe Tacopina comes in. Tacopina is one of A-Rod's lawyers, representing him both in the arbitration appeal of Rodriguez's 211-game suspension — which has already involved several days of hearings and is scheduled to resume the week of Nov. 18 — and in his lawsuit against MLB. And compared with some of the people that Tacopina has defended in the past, A-Rod is a friggin' hero. He might be overpaid, narcissistic, and already an admitted past PED user, but on the plus side, he's never been accused of murdering a policeman or exploiting 9/11, which can't be said of Tacopina's other clients.
