Roy Cohn: Trump’s Mentor, McCarthy’s Counsel, Gay Night Clubs, and Pedophile Rings (Thread)
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The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s— (Cont.)
Cohn was indicted for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports.
And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial.
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Cohn, born to an affluent Jewish family in the Bronx, gained notoriety as a young attorney when he worked as Senator Joseph McCarthy's grand inquisitor in the purging of America during the Communist 'red scare' of the 1950s.
Cohn grew influential within political circles, and involved himself with blackmail.
Roy Cohn admitted to NYPD detective James Rothstein that he was part of an elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with "child prostitutes".
According to New York attorney John Klotz, who had been investigating Cohn on behalf of his client Richard Dupont, Cohn provided protection for a "ring of pedophiles" operating out of Suite 233 at the Plaza Hotel.
The ring had connections to the intelligence community.
Some of Cohn's former clients, including Bill Bonanno, son of crime boss Joseph Bonanno, also credit him with having compromising photographs of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Because Hoover knew the pictures existed, Cohn told Bonanno, Hoover feared being blackmailed.
Roy Cohn was also lawyer to Jew Steve Rubell, entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54, the hottest nightclub in NYC in the 70’s.
Rubell hired Cohn to defend him when faced with tax evasion charges, but was sentenced to 3.5 yrs in prison and a $20k fine.
Rubell, a homosexual, was closeted for most of his life, discovered he had contracted HIV, which later progressed to AIDS.
Roy Cohn also denied his homosexuality in public. However, he had a few known boyfriends, including his assistant Russell Eldridge, who died from AIDS.
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