Kurt Mausert

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Kurt Mausert (born 1957) is an American lawyer. He maintains his law office in downtown Saratoga Springs.

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Mausert began his career as a prosecutor for the City Prosecutor's office in Concord, NH in 1987. In the mid-1990s, he also served as a Special Prosecutor in Warren County, NY. He is a former Town Court Judge having served via appointment by the Board of the Town of Saratoga.[ citation needed ]

During charity event in Vrindavana Kurt-maus vrindavana.jpg
During charity event in Vrindavana

As a practitioner of Vedic philosophy, Mausert served as president for Care for Vrindavan for more than twelve years. [1] This charity supports in part Food for Life Vrindavan four schools and some social development programs for women, clean water projects, and vegetarian food distribution, reforestation efforts and medical services. [2]

At the Mohonasen High School in 1974 (right) Kurt-maus highschoolconcert.jpg
At the Mohonasen High School in 1974 (right)


Mausert was born in Watertown, New York, in 1957 to John Mausert and Loretta Mausert. [1] Kurt graduated from Mohonasen High School in 1975 and attended college in Albany and UCLA in Los Angeles. [1] After serving as a prosecutor in Concord, New Hampshire, he returned home to Upstate New York in 1988. [1] Mausert was admitted to the New York Bar in 1989 when he started his own law practice. He also lived in practiced in Reno, Nevada, from May 1992 to December 1994.


He has been practicing in Saratoga Springs since 1989, covering Upstate New York areas. [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 1991 Mausert successfully moved for the Queensbury, New York, Town Court Judge (Hon. Michael Muller), to have county prosecutor William Montgomery remove a flag pin he was wearing in court, arguing that the wearing of the flag may prejudice the jury. New York State Supreme Court Justice John Dier overruled the decision of Judge Muller. (Justice Dier was later admonished by the State's Commission on Judicial Conduct for unethical conduct in his handling of the case.) [7] [8] That ruling, however, was in turn overturned unanimously by the New York State Appellate Division, 3rd Dept., (later affirmed by the highest court, the Court of Appeals), thus validating the position of Mausert in regard of wearing the flag pin by prosecution. [9] [10] [11]

Involvement in ISKCON

Mausert was introduced to the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavata Purana at the age of 13 by his eldest brother, Aksobhya dasa. [12] At the age of 20 he became a monk and joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in New York City. [13] In January 1979, he accepted Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of the first disciples of the founder-acarya of ISKCON, as his diksa guru. At the initiation in 1979 he was given the name Kirtan Rasa Dasa. [13]

After the death of his brother Aksobhya dasa in February 1979, he learned his system of indexing books and went to work for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust charity in Los Angeles. [13] dasa was based in Honolulu when he was killed February 22, 1979, an event that inspired Mausert to become a lifelong gun owner https://www.range365.com/video-shows-breadth-gun-ownership#page-2. [4] At the BBT, Mausert wrote indexes for translations of the Isopansad, the Brahma Samhita, the Bhagavad Gita, volumes of the Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita's biography and various other books.[ citation needed ] Mausert was given Brahminical initiation in July 1980 by his spiritual master, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. While in law school, he continued to edit indexes for the BBT. [14]

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