Gary Kurfirst
<p class="MsoNormal">He worked as a merchant at several flea markets, a clerk in the records department in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square_Stores" title="Times Square Stores" >Times Square Stores</a>, a camera repairman at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Corporation" title="Olympus Corporation" >Olympus Corporation</a>, a clerk at a flower shop, and as an order-picker and tape manager at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_World" title="Record World" >Record World</a> headquarters in New York City. One of his landscaping clients in Roslyn Harbor was Sophia Casey, the widow of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Casey" title="William Casey" >William Casey</a>, the former Chief of the CIA under President Ronald Reagan. Rifkin started to show a profound interest in horticulture and, with the help of Owen Smith, the president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum" title="Arboretum" >Arboretum</a> and the son-in-law of former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" >CIA</a> chief <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Casey" title="William Casey" >William Casey</a>, started an internship at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planting_Fields_Arboretum_State_Historic_Park" title="Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park" >Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Bay(hamlet),New_York" title="Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York" >Oyster Bay</a>. At the park, Joel was assigned as a groundsman to tend the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miniature_pine&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Miniature pine (page does not exist)" >miniature pines</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwarf_Conifer&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Dwarf Conifer (page does not exist)" >Dwarf Conifer</a> garden. At the time of his arrest, he was working as a horticulturist as a temp for Dunhill Temporary Services and had also been a self-employed landscaper for four years, considering himself to be a horticulturist.</p>