Roy Cohn

Controversies

Sexual blackmail

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Political connections

Republican Party

• Roger Stone - among other things, helped him arrange for John B. Anderson to run third party in 1980
• Paul Manafort
• Ronald Reagan

Intelligence operatives

• William Casey
• Craig J. Spence

Corporate connections

Legal clients

• Donald Trump
• Mafia bosses
  • Anthony Salerno
  • Carmine Galante
  • John Gotti
• Rupert Murdoch
• Alan Dershowitz

Involved companies

• Permindex? (unsure if there are any sources outside of the questionable Torbitt document)

External links

• Slate, "The Quiet American", 2016/04/28 - Cohn is said to have introduced Trump to Manafort
• New Yorker, "Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump", 2017/04/14 - says that William Casey "called Roy almost daily" during Reagan's 1980 campaign
• New York Magazine, "The Original Donald Trump", 2018/04/29
• "Get Me Roger Stone" segment on Roy Cohn
• Pedophilic blackmail ring run by Cohn
  • Paul David Collins, "The Ghost of Roy Cohn", 2007/05/07 - May 2007 article based on an interview with NYPD detective Jim Rothstein
    • "Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination)."
  • Paul David Collins, "Human Compromise", 2008/04/10 - April 2008 article citing another interview with NYPD detective Rothstein
  • From p.88 of Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off Between The Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America by Burton Hersh: "When New York attorney John Klotz began to investigate Cohn on behalf of a client...declassified New York government files and spadework by a private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a 'blue suite' at the Plaza, Suite 233. 'Roy Cohn was providing protection,' Klotz discovered. 'There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That's where Cohn got his power from -- blackmail.'"
  • Ed Opperman interview with Jim Rothstein on 2017/11/17 (start around 00:36:50)
  • VISUP, "Goodfellas Part IV: Lavender Mafia Edition", 2018/03/25 - also links Edwin Wilson, Robert Keith Gray, and William Casey
  • VISUP, "Goodfellas Part VIII: Sons of Cohn", 2018/07/22 - mentions links to the Profumo scandal, Process Church milieu, and Son of Sam cult
• J. Edgar Hoover pedophilia with Cohn
  • "J. Edgar Hoover Biopic Punts On Gay Question", 2011/12/17
  • Anthony Summers, "The secret life of J Edgar Hoover", 2011/12/31
• Process Church connection
  • From p.1079-1080 of The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry:
    
        "The Process was very sophisticated and dedicated," Berkowitz told me. "They had their hands in a lot of things, including drugs and that disgusting child pornography. They also provided kids for sex to some wealthy people, and I did see some of those people at parties."
        According to Berkowitz, these sex and drug soirees were held at upscale private residences in Westchester, Manhattan, Connecticut and Long Island's Hamptons. His telephone records, which documented calls to the Hamptons and to the Long Island summer homes of two Yonkers doctors, partially supported his statement. Further, two witnesses maintained that occasionally present at these parties were a Yonkers judge, at least two Westchester County politicians, a high-ranking New York state politician, a celebrated but later-murdered physician, a Nobel Prize-winning doctor, and two aides (one prominent) to then-mayor of New York City Abraham Beame.
        Berkowitz also revealed that he met Roy Cohn, the powerful and notorious attorney who once represented—besides numerous other "high society" clients—art dealer Andrew Crispo and the owners of the glamorous but scandal-ridden Studio 54 discotheque.
        "I was at a party at that big house he had in Greenwich [Connecticut]," Berkowitz said of Cohn, who died of AIDS in 1986. "I didn't know him, but other people did, and that's how I went to a party there."
     
  • New York Times, "There Was Something Creepy About the Gallery", 1992/06/21 - review for Bag of Toys: Sex, Scandal, and the Death Mask Murder by David France (1992); says that the book mentions "the sleazy client-attorney relationship between Mr. [Andrew] Crispo and Roy Cohn"