The lawyer who represented former Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam following his arrest for stealing $87,000 from a youth basketball program he ran has deep ties to Atlantic City politics; some of his relatives were loyal members of the Republican machine run by the legendary State Sen. Frank “Hap” Farley — but his father was a Democrat.
New York criminal defense attorney Harry Rimm was the nephew of Benjamin Rimm, a former three-term assemblyman first elected in 1961.
Benjamin Rimm resigned from the legislature in 1966 when Gov. Richard J. Hughes nominated him to become a Superior Court judge. He had served as the top aide to Assembly Speaker Leon Leonard in the 1940’s, and as assistant clerk and parliamentarian of the Assembly and Atlantic City Municipal Court Judge and city solicitor in the 1950s.
His father, Marvin Rimm, a Democrat, served as a municipal court judge from 1962 to 1975 and as a state tax court judge until his retirement. He was a Korean War veteran, and like his son went to Yale Law School.
Sigmund Rimm, his cousin, served as a Margate city commissioner for 32 years until his retirement in 2007.
Harry Rimm is a former federal prosecutor.
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