Robert Anthony Agresta (born March 31, 1983) is a corporate lawyer and investor. He is the principal of Agresta Acquisitions, a private investment companyAgresta Acquisitions, LLC ,
New York, New York
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. Accessed December 23, 2008. and The Agresta Firm, a New York metropolitan area-based law firm.The Agresta Firm PC
Englewood, New Jersey
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. Accessed March 27, 2011. He was also the city council president in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey from 2009 through 2012. Agresta is the son of the late Joseph A. Agresta, Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta.Driven to Succeed by Ian Spelling, 201 Magazine
New York, New York
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Biography
Agresta was born on March 31, 1983, to Joseph A. Agresta, Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta and is a dual-citizen of Italy and the United States. The American Swiss Foundation
New York, New York
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. Accessed October 20, 2020.
Agresta is a descendant5 of Robert Shipley and Sarah Shipley, great grandparents of President
Abraham Lincoln
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and parents of Mary Shipley, the first wife of Captain Abraham Lincoln.&mac=Ovs+E2g3LOz7T10oRWeAKg" target="_blank" class="mw-redirect" title="Agresta Family Tree, Ancestry">Agresta Family Tree, Ancestry
New York, New York
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. Retrieved October 20, 2020.Boone Family Archive
New York, New York
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. Retrieved October 20, 2020. Agresta is also a Son of the American Revolution and the lineal descendant of Lieutenant Thomas Collins, III who was a Lieutenant in the
French and Indian War
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American Revolutionary War
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After graduating from
Fordham University
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in 2005, Agresta attended
New York Law School
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in
New York City
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and graduated on June 1, 2009, with a
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, in 2015 with a master's degree in business administration and continued to lecture as a member of the HSG faculty on strategy in law and business.
In 2011, Agresta was nominated as a Young Leader in the
American Swiss Foundation The American Swiss Foundation is a private non-profit foreign policy organization headquartered in New York. It was founded in 1945 "to preserve and strengthen the historic friendship between the United States and Switzerland".
Conference
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by former US Ambassador to Switzerland Faith Whittlesey and Christopher Ruddy. He participates in diplomatic efforts to improve relations between the
United States
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and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
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Professional career
In 2009, Agresta formed The Agresta Firm, PC, serving as counsel to businesses, executives and boards of directors in the banking and healthcare industries.Robert Agresta, Esq.
New York, New York
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Uni ...
. Accessed January 7, 2018. Agresta is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of Wyoming, the State of New York and the State of New Jersey. In 2017, Agresta published "International Tax Planning as a Business Driver", 5 Penn. St. J.L. & Int'l Aff. 538 (2017) in the Penn State Journal of Law and International affairs. In his work as an attorney, Agresta has worked with colleagues to obtain decisions advancing the causes of healthcare institutions before the Federal Courts in the District of New Jersey that have been cited in petitions to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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In 2004, Agresta formed Agresta Acquisitions, LLC., a private investment company. In December 2017 Agresta Acquisitions brought an action against a UK based bitcoin mining operation and its service providers alleging that the firm had suffered over $8.4 million in losses in as a result of a fraud conducted by the mining company and negligence on the part of its service providers to conduct adequate due diligence.
Prior to becoming an attorney, at the age of 16, Agresta incorporated the technology business, CapSync Systems, Inc. While attending high school at the Dwight-Englewood School, co-founded WMN, LLC, a media technology startup where he filed his first United States Patent Application. In 2001, while attending
Fordham University
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, Agresta filed his second U.S. Patent Application, completed two tiers of fundraising and was marketing WMN’s concept to potential purchasers out of an office in Rockefeller Center.
Political career
Agresta was the Republican nominee running for the Englewood Cliffs Borough Council seat held by Democratic incumbent Patricia Drimones.
Agresta was elected on November 4, 2008, to serve a three-year term as a Republican councilman in the Borough of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, defeating Drimones, 1256 to 1059. He was sworn into office on January 6, 2009 by Judge Maurice Gallipoli, Assignment Judge of Hudson County,
New Jersey
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. On January 6, 2010, Agresta was voted president of the borough council after two more Republicans were voted in during the November 2009 general election creating a new Republican majority in Englewood Cliffs.Seeing red: Voters pick GOP candidates, Bergen Record Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Accessed January 1, 2009. In April 2010, the Englewood Cliffs Republicans announced two more candidates to take unanimous control of the council. In April 2010 Englewood Cliffs voters defeated a school board budget in the wake of significant cuts resulting from a statewide initiative to cut local school budgets. The school budget was then passed to the borough council while Agresta was president. Voting in the affirmative with the majority, Agresta and the council cut $87,000 from the school budget without elimination of any additional programs.
Agresta was endorsed by New Jersey Senator
Gerald Cardinale
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Michael Wildes
Michael Jay Wildes (born November 27, 1964) is an American immigration lawyer and politician who serves as the 38th and current Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. He previously served as the 36th Mayor of Englewood from 2004 to 2010. A member of the ...
Mehmet Oz
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* Councilman-elect sues town and county officials
* Fire call response now issue in race
* GOP wants cut in Cliffs police pay
* Mayor named in local suit
* Robert AgrestaRobert Agresta by Tara Driggs, Northern Valley Suburbanite Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Accessed December 23, 2008.
* Candidates face off … well kind ofCandidates face off … well kind of by Sophia Gonzalez, Northern Valley Suburbanite
Englewood, New Jersey
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* Qaddafi "is not welcome in New Jersey"Qaddafi "is not welcome in New Jersey", Jerry DeMarco Cliffview Pilot Northern New Jersey. Accessed March 27, 2011.
* Englewood Cliffs May Not Reappoint Construction officialEnglewood Cliffs May Not Reappoint Construction official by Amanda Baskind, Northern Valley Suburbanite Northern New Jersey. Accessed March 27, 2011.