FBI releases files on Roy Cohn

[struggle4progress]

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UPDATED 13 MIN AGO
Dan Mangan

The FBI on Friday released nearly 750 pages of documents from the bureau’s file on the late controversial, hyper-aggressive lawyer Roy Cohn, whose high-profile clients included President Donald Trump when Trump was a fledgling real-estate mogul in New York City.

“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump has been quoted lamenting when he was faced with political and legal pressures.

Cohn was famous — and infamous — for his work for Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin in the 1950s investigating suspected infilitration by communists in U.S. government agencies, as well as his role prosecuting Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for stealing American atomic secrets.

In the Rosenberg case, Cohn later admitted to conversations with the trial judge outside of the presence of the Rosenberg lawyers — a serious ethical breach by both Cohn and the judge ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/fbi-releases-file-on-trumps-late-lawyer-roy-cohn.html

[lagomorph777]

1. How did that happen? Some scheduled declassification, or somebody pissed off?

[Siwsan]

2. I'm wondering if trump*'s name is somewhere in those documents

I downloaded the PDF. Might do some perusing, this weekend.

[alittlelark]

3. My guess is that the FBI is throwing out breadcrumbs.

I can Guaran-Damn-Tee you that The vast majority of the FBI KNOWS how lawless the orange anus is.

Time to follow those crumbs.......................to.........................Impeachment and Indictments.

[Archae]

4. I remember a biographical movie about Roy Cohn with James Woods as Cohn...

Woods played Cohn to a T, one of his best performances.

I had no idea doing that would corrupt Woods.

But Cohn gave crooked lawyers a bad name, was a vicious anti-gay in the closet gay, and he murdered Ethel Rosenberg.
(He knew she was innocent while Julius wasn't.)

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Interesting is it not.

Cohn and Fred Trump were lawyer Clients for decades.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R for wow, were there no limits for J. Edgar?!1. Were they pals?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Pics of J. Edgar and Roy partying?

Pics of J. Edgar and Roy partying?

[NCLefty]

8. Is that link wrong?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/fbi-releases-file-on-trumps-late-lawyer-roy-cohn.html

And this seems timely. Was this a message?

[struggle4progress]

10. Sorry! Thanks! And fixed it!

[ArtTownsend]

9. Great timing! :)