“the law [has not] recognized a single homosexual marriage”
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Roy Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and conservative political activist. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–1953) and as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Cohn had been assisting McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prom…
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Born 20 February 1927 · Died 2 August 1986 · Q942923
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2026· 5 entries
“price tags are generally negotiable”
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“tired of supporting our welfare and food stamp programs”
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The New Yorker: How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything
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2024· 4 entries
New York Post: Remembering Roy Cohn — subject of new Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’
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Yahoo: Roy Cohn: The ‘evil’ master architect who mentored Donald Trump, as seen in The Apprentice
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Deadline.com: Donald Trump-Roy Cohn Drama ‘The Apprentice’ To Make Surprise Toronto Film Fest Appearance Prior To October 11 U.S. Rollout On 2,000+ Screens
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AOL: Roy Cohn: Ruthless McCarthy lieutenant-turned-Trump mentor so universally loathed he was ‘a new strain of sonofab****’
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Rudy Guliani was disbarred on June 24, 2021 — 35 years to the day after Roy Cohn was disbarred.” Mixture.
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1986· 4 entries
Died 1986-08-02.
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At a hospital at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, due to complications from AIDS
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A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court disbarred Cohn for unethical and unprofessional conduct, including misappropriation of clients' funds, lying on a bar application, and fals
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Cohn was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing him to sign a will amendment leaving his fortune to Cohn
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1984· 2 entries
And Peter Fraser, Cohn's partner for the last two years of his life, who was 30 years his junior
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Cohn was diagnosed with AIDS and attempted to keep his condition secret while receiving experimental drug treatment
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1979· 1 entry
Cohn became a member of the Western Goals Foundation; he served on the board of directors with Edward Teller
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1978· 2 entries
Ken Auletta wrote in an Esquire profile of Cohn: "He fights his cases as if they were his own
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The Trump Organization was again in court for violating terms of the 1975 settlement; Cohn called the new charges "nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple of planted malcontents
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1975· 2 entries
Saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant
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When Cohn entered the hospital room of the dying and unconscious Lewis Rosenstiel, forced a pen into his hand, and lifted it to a document appointing himself and Cathy Frank, Rosenstiel's granddaughter, executors
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1973· 1 entry
The Justice Department accused Trump of violating the Fair Housing Act in 39 of his properties
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1972· 1 entry
Helped Nixon discredit the candidacy of George McGovern's Vice Presidential running mate Thomas Eagleton by leaking Eagleton's medical records to the press
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1971· 1 entry
Donald Trump first undertook large construction projects in Manhattan
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1969· 1 entry
His lawyer suffered a heart attack near the end of the trial
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1967· 1 entry
And she was constantly attentive to his grades, appearance and relationships
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1964· 1 entry
Cohn and Gottesman were acquitted on all charges
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1963· 1 entry
Cohn was forced to resign from the company after losing a proxy fight
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1953· 2 entries
To ban homosexuals, whom he considered a national security risk, from being employed by the federal government
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Cohn made extensive efforts to procure special treatment for him, even threatening to "wreck the Army" if his demands were not met
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1946· 1 entry
Cohn graduated from Columbia Law School at the age of 20
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1931· 1 entry
During the Great Depression, and its then-president Bernie Marcus, Cohn's uncle, was convicted of fraud
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1927· 2 entries
Into an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City
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Born 1927-02-20.
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