Terry Gross
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399 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
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I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air.
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This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
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Let's get back to my interview with Kai Bird, author of the new book American Scoundrel Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.
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In the fifties, when Senator Joe McCarthy led the subcommittee that investigated and smeared alleged communists and gay people.
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Cohn was the subcommittee's legal counsel.
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He went on to become the lawyer for leaders of New York's crime families.
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He was connected to wealthy New Yorkers and power brokers, and used those connections to get favors, including favors for Donald Trump.
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He did his best to avoid paying bills and taxes and found ways to hide his money from the feds.
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Cohn was indicted by the Justice Department on three occasions of bribery, perjury, and extortion, and other white collar crimes, and was always acquitted.
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But in nineteen eighty six, after being accused of bribery and fraud, he was disbarred.
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Just a few weeks later he died of AIDS, which he always denied having, saying it was liver cancer.
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So after Joe McCarthy was pressured to fire
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Roy Cohn.
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When Roy Cohn was the legal counsel for McCarthy's
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subcommittee that was
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Really active in the witch hunt against alleged communists.
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Um Roy Cohn then went on to do other things.
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He became a divorce lawyer for very wealthy people, and he represented leaders of the five Mafia families of New York.
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What kind of cases did he take?
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