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“If you were in his presence, you knew you were in the presence of evil.” After (or even before) seeing this absorbing, excoriating documentary, you may find it hard to disagree.
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| FBI released files on allegations of bribery against Roy Cohn | ||
The FBI released nearly 750 pages from its file that detail investigations into President Donald Trump's controversial lawyer Roy Cohn.
The documents largely detail allegations that Cohn was involved in perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and bribery, adding to Cohn's longtime reputation as a ruthless attorney who had little to no regard to ethical guidelines in his work and consulting of his associates.
Cohn earned his fiery reputation while working as chief counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s during the senator's crusade to uncover suspected communists working undercover in the US government.
The lawyer successfully prosecuted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for stealing American atomic secrets. However, Cohn later said he had conversations with the trial judge without the presence of the Rosenberg lawyers, which represented an ethical breach by both Cohn and the judge, according to CNBC.
While developing his cutthroat reputation, Cohn met Donald Trump after the Department of Justice brought a 1973 lawsuit against Trump and his father, Fred, for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act after they had discriminated against black rental applicants.
The Washington Post reported in 2016 that Trump met Cohn before the suit out and about in New York City and asked his advice on how to respond to discrimination allegations.
"My view is tell them to go to hell," Cohn said, according to the Post. "And fight the thing in court."
Read more: Donald Trump learned his aggressive legal style from 'the king of intimidation,' Roy Cohn
Cohn, as Trump's counsel, later filed a $100 million countersuit against the Justice Department before that suit failed and Trump settled the Justice Department's claims out of court.
The released files are scans of letters and other case documents, many of which pertain to an investigation of an alleged $50,000 bribe he paid the then-chief assistant US attorney to shield multiple stock swindlers from being indicted in 1959. After the deal was revealed, Cohn was ultimately found not guilty after a trial in 1964.
Cohn's other clients include media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and multiple New York mob bosses, and his controversial work never affected the place he enjoyed in high New York society among friends and associates like Nancy Reagan and Andy Warhol.
In 1986, Cohn was disbarred for ethics violations and died at the age of 59 from AIDS complications nearly two months later.
Since Trump's emergence on the political stage, Cohn's ties to Trump's associates have come back under scrutiny amid concerns of his influence on Trump's tactics to confronting issues related to the administration including obstruction of justice allegations.
One such associate is Roger Stone, a former adviser who was charged as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Stone pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional proceeding, and is set to stand trial in November in federal court.
A documentary that premiered this month that explores Cohn's life and influence borrowed its title from Trump's key phrase when he was facing legal troubles and would ask "Where's My Roy Cohn?"
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The FBI released nearly 750 pages from its file that detail investigations into President Donald Trump's controversial lawyer Roy Cohn.
The documents largely detail allegations that Cohn was involved in perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and bribery, adding to Cohn's longtime reputation as a ruthless attorney who had little to no regard to ethical guidelines in his work and consulting of his associates.
Cohn earned his fiery reputation while working as chief counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s during the senator's crusade to uncover suspected communists working undercover in the US government.
The lawyer successfully prosecuted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for stealing American atomic secrets. However, Cohn later said he had conversations with the trial judge without the presence of the Rosenberg lawyers, which represented an ethical breach by both Cohn and the judge, according to CNBC.
While developing his cutthroat reputation, Cohn met Donald Trump after the Department of Justice brought a 1973 lawsuit against Trump and his father, Fred, for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act after they had discriminated against black rental applicants.
The Washington Post reported in 2016 that Trump met Cohn before the suit out and about in New York City and asked his advice on how to respond to discrimination allegations.
"My view is tell them to go to hell," Cohn said, according to the Post. "And fight the thing in court."
Read more: Donald Trump learned his aggressive legal style from 'the king of intimidation,' Roy Cohn
Cohn, as Trump's counsel, later filed a $100 million countersuit against the Justice Department before that suit failed and Trump settled the Justice Department's claims out of court.
The released files are scans of letters and other case documents, many of which pertain to an investigation of an alleged $50,000 bribe he paid the then-chief assistant US attorney to shield multiple stock swindlers from being indicted in 1959. After the deal was revealed, Cohn was ultimately found not guilty after a trial in 1964.
Cohn's other clients include media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and multiple New York mob bosses, and his controversial work never affected the place he enjoyed in high New York society among friends and associates like Nancy Reagan and Andy Warhol.
In 1986, Cohn was disbarred for ethics violations and died at the age of 59 from AIDS complications nearly two months later.
Since Trump's emergence on the political stage, Cohn's ties to Trump's associates have come back under scrutiny amid concerns of his influence on Trump's tactics to confronting issues related to the administration including obstruction of justice allegations.
One such associate is Roger Stone, a former adviser who was charged as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Stone pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional proceeding, and is set to stand trial in November in federal court.
A documentary that premiered this month that explores Cohn's life and influence borrowed its title from Trump's key phrase when he was facing legal troubles and would ask "Where's My Roy Cohn?"
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Former FBI Director James Comey knows a thing or two about leadership.
A former federal prosecutor who took on the mob, terrorists and street criminals, he’s served at the top levels of the Justice Department and stood up to two different presidents for very different reasons.
Comey shared some of his lessons on leadership at the William S. Boyd School of Law’s second Law and Leadership program last week. Interviewed by former Gov. Brian Sandoval — the program’s leader — Comey talked about what he’d learned about leading.
Good leaders lead from the front. Comey said he took time when at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., to get his own lunch in the building’s cafeteria, coatless and with his security detail at a distance. He’d ask FBI employees about their jobs and get to know them as people.
The exercise served a dual purpose, helping Comey understand the people who worked for him, as well as letting them see him as a flesh-and-blood person, rather than as the director. And, he said, he never cut in line despite repeated invitations to do so because of his rank.
“You and I are God’s creatures, right?” he said. “There’s no difference. I’m not going to cut in line on you.”
Good leaders, Comey said, put their people center stage rather than take that spot for themselves. Comey was sure to credit the police officers, FBI agents and prosecutors who worked with him fighting gun crimes in Richmond, Virginia, what he recalled as one of his best law-enforcement posts. A politician in his spot might claim credit for cleaning up the town, but Comey pointed the spotlight on his subordinates, who carried out his priorities.
Comey said he’d look for that leadership quality at FBI headquarters. When he asked for information about a particular topic, he’d note which of his deputies would bring their subordinates to brief him, as opposed to those who would collect the information from their people and then brief the director themselves.
Leaders never ask for loyalty, Comey said. He used the example of former Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who recently resigned as secretary of Defense. “Jim Mattis was a fellow who led United States Marines for decades. I guarantee you, he never asked them for loyalty,” Comey said.
Instead, he set high standards and made sure his Marines had the resources to do the job. “And by all that giving and giving and giving, he got something in return, much more important than loyalty, which is transactional. He got love,” Comey said.
Leaders take care to preserve the institutions they serve, Comey said. That’s what he said he was doing when he made the decision to inform Congress that the FBI — shortly before the 2016 election — had discovered a new trove of Hillary Clinton emails relevant to a then-closed investigation. Even though he knew the revelation could (and did) affect the election, he feared not reporting the evidence and having it come out later would greatly damage the FBI.
But leaders are also humble, Comey said. Although he says he’d make the same decision again given the same circumstances, he frankly admits he’s not sure he was right. “If I was certain I was right, I’d be a moron,” Comey said. “I’m still not certain it was the right decision.”
Leaders stand up for their principles and for the rules, even in the face of intense pressure. Comey told the now-famous story of rushing to the bedside of ailing Attorney General James Ashcroft to prevent two top White House aides — then-Chief of Staff Andy Card and then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales — from forcing Ashcroft to sign off on a surveillance program that top Justice Department officials had determined had an infirm legal basis.
Although the president wanted the program — and former Vice President Dick Cheney warned him that people would die as a result of canceling the program — Comey stood firm. And when the president’s men arrived, Ashcroft told them in no uncertain terms he would not sign, and that, because of his illness, Comey was then the acting attorney general of the United States.
“That was the hardest thing I’d ever been involved in,” Comey said. “I had no idea.”
Comey said he had a “distant and cold” relationship with President Donald Trump before the president fired him, but said an FBI director should maintain a separation from the president. Former President Barack Obama told Comey when he was hired as director that the president simply wanted the bureau to have solid, competent leadership.
Eschewing the spotlight. Putting the focus on other people. Protecting the institution. Respecting the rules. Standing by principle, no matter the political cost. Staying humble. Never demanding loyalty.
Sound like the mirror opposite of anybody you know?
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There are documentary portraits that pay respectful tribute to their famous subjects, that measure their lives and accomplishments with varying degrees of admiration and ambivalence. And then there is “Where’s My Roy Cohn?,” which moves decidedly and unsurprisingly in the opposite direction. Its view of the notorious attorney and power broker Roy Cohn can be summed up in one interviewee’s unminced words: “If you were in his presence, you knew you were in the presence of evil.” After (or even before) seeing this absorbing, excoriating documentary, you may find it hard to disagree.
Unlike director Matt Tyrnauer’s previous films, which include “Valentino: The Last Emperor” and “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” turns its gaze on a complicated but unambiguous monster. It offers a blunt, ruthless evisceration — which is to say, a clear-eyed assessment — of the brilliant legal mind who helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair and made his reputation as Joseph McCarthy’s attack dog. Until his 1986 death of complications from AIDS — an illness that, along with his homosexuality, he denied to the end — Cohn enjoyed a career of such flamboyant corruption and galling hypocrisy as to mark him as one of the crowning American villains of the 20th century.
A new documentary about master manipulator Roy Cohn says President Trump learned his political pugilism from Cohn. Alex Brandon/Associated Press
And perhaps also the 21st century, given his formative influence on a certain commander in chief. The movie’s big 2019-ready hook is Cohn’s longtime relationship with President Trump, which began around the time the Justice Department sued Trump, his father and Trump Management for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act. In representing Trump, the documentary argues, Cohn gave him an early lesson in political pugilism, teaching him to never back down or admit wrongdoing, to manipulate the media without shame and to lie, deny and counter-attack with relentless ferocity.
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” — words that Trump himself uttered after what he perceived as an unforgivable betrayal by his then-attorney general, Jeff Sessions — is hardly the only recent documentary to double as a Trumpism origin story. And the notion that Cohn was the president’s enabler and kindred spirit is certainly persuasive, despite the somewhat glib, attention-grabbing emphasis it’s given here. It’s also just one element of a portrait built on revealing interviews with Cohn’s friends, associates and family members. We hear from writers like Ken Auletta and the late Liz Smith; from the Republican fixer Roger Stone, one of Cohn’s most famous protégés; and also from a past boyfriend who’s happy to dish about Cohn’s various proclivities. (Oddly absent: any reference to Tony Kushner’s landmark play “Angels in America,” which gave this particular devil more than his due.)
But “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” derives its juiciest, queasiest fascination from the words and countenance of the man himself, seen here in a wealth of old photographs and televised interviews, at times accompanied by the seductive strains of Ravel’s “Boléro.” If the younger Cohn often looks pinched and uncomfortable, the older Cohn appears to have mastered a cool, reptilian charisma. The movie fixates often on the cold blue eyes, the heavily bronzed complexion and, at one point, the scars from a botched face-lift. If that level of scrutiny sounds petty, it’s also an apt approach to a subject whose vanity and self-loathing went hand in hand.
As many here tell it, Cohn inherited his lack of scruples, his lust for power and his transactional view of relationships from his domineering mother, Dora, and his father, Albert, a judge and prominent Democrat who gave him an early education in the workings of political power. A prodigiously gifted Columbia Law grad, Cohn was only in his 20s when he prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of espionage in 1951 and, by his own admission, secretly swayed the judge into handing them a death sentence.
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That reputation-making affair brought Cohn to the attention of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and, eventually, McCarthy, who made him his chief counsel. It was his role in advancing McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade that brought him into contact with another consultant, G. David Schine, whom several interviewees describe as Cohn’s first real, all-consuming romantic obsession. It was Cohn’s badgering insistence on special military treatment for Schine that led to the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings (Sen. Joseph Welch’s famous “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” moment gets a satisfying replay here), which in turn precipitated McCarthy’s downfall and drove Cohn into private practice.
You almost (almost!) pity Cohn during clips of the hearings, which are rife with homophobic language and cruel, snickering speculations about his relationship with Schine. But the lawyer’s humiliation and defeat were only temporary, and “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” makes clear that they only further fueled his drive to manipulate the system and win at any cost.
He surrounded himself with women (including Barbara Walters, at one point rumored to be his fiancée) while pursuing daily flings with men. He became a friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, a consigliere to Mafia figures like John Gotti and a regular at Studio 54 (he even popped up in Tyrnauer’s 2018 documentary on that legendary disco). His crooked dealings helped build Trump Tower, a story of such multilevel corruption that it could merit a feature-length documentary of its own.
All this rushes by in a momentous blur of archival footage, the sheer abundance of which reminds you just how fully Cohn relished the spotlight, even as he had so much to hide. The men and women interviewed here do take eloquent stabs at explaining these and other contradictions and ironies: the self-hatred behind his relentless persecutions of gay people; the personal access to early AIDS treatment he received courtesy of President Reagan, who otherwise did next to nothing to acknowledge or mitigate the epidemic. The movie can’t fully disguise its glee as it lingers over the particulars of Cohn’s death — or, for that matter, its all-too-convincing lament that his spirit is still alive and well.
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Former FBI Director James Comey knows a thing or two about leadership.
A former federal prosecutor who took on the mob, terrorists and street criminals, he’s served at the top levels of the Justice Department and stood up to two different presidents for very different reasons.
Comey shared some of his lessons on leadership at the William S. Boyd School of Law’s second Law and Leadership program last week. Interviewed by former Gov. Brian Sandoval — the program’s leader — Comey talked about what he’d learned about leading.
Good leaders lead from the front. Comey said he took time when at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., to get his own lunch in the building’s cafeteria, coatless and with his security detail at a distance. He’d ask FBI employees about their jobs and get to know them as people.
The exercise served a dual purpose, helping Comey understand the people who worked for him, as well as letting them see him as a flesh-and-blood person, rather than as the director. And, he said, he never cut in line despite repeated invitations to do so because of his rank.
“You and I are God’s creatures, right?” he said. “There’s no difference. I’m not going to cut in line on you.”
Good leaders, Comey said, put their people center stage rather than take that spot for themselves. Comey was sure to credit the police officers, FBI agents and prosecutors who worked with him fighting gun crimes in Richmond, Virginia, what he recalled as one of his best law-enforcement posts. A politician in his spot might claim credit for cleaning up the town, but Comey pointed the spotlight on his subordinates, who carried out his priorities.
Comey said he’d look for that leadership quality at FBI headquarters. When he asked for information about a particular topic, he’d note which of his deputies would bring their subordinates to brief him, as opposed to those who would collect the information from their people and then brief the director themselves.
Leaders never ask for loyalty, Comey said. He used the example of former Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who recently resigned as secretary of Defense. “Jim Mattis was a fellow who led United States Marines for decades. I guarantee you, he never asked them for loyalty,” Comey said.
Instead, he set high standards and made sure his Marines had the resources to do the job. “And by all that giving and giving and giving, he got something in return, much more important than loyalty, which is transactional. He got love,” Comey said.
Leaders take care to preserve the institutions they serve, Comey said. That’s what he said he was doing when he made the decision to inform Congress that the FBI — shortly before the 2016 election — had discovered a new trove of Hillary Clinton emails relevant to a then-closed investigation. Even though he knew the revelation could (and did) affect the election, he feared not reporting the evidence and having it come out later would greatly damage the FBI.
But leaders are also humble, Comey said. Although he says he’d make the same decision again given the same circumstances, he frankly admits he’s not sure he was right. “If I was certain I was right, I’d be a moron,” Comey said. “I’m still not certain it was the right decision.”
Leaders stand up for their principles and for the rules, even in the face of intense pressure. Comey told the now-famous story of rushing to the bedside of ailing Attorney General James Ashcroft to prevent two top White House aides — then-Chief of Staff Andy Card and then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales — from forcing Ashcroft to sign off on a surveillance program that top Justice Department officials had determined had an infirm legal basis.
Although the president wanted the program — and former Vice President Dick Cheney warned him that people would die as a result of canceling the program — Comey stood firm. And when the president’s men arrived, Ashcroft told them in no uncertain terms he would not sign, and that, because of his illness, Comey was then the acting attorney general of the United States.
“That was the hardest thing I’d ever been involved in,” Comey said. “I had no idea.”
Comey said he had a “distant and cold” relationship with President Donald Trump before the president fired him, but said an FBI director should maintain a separation from the president. Former President Barack Obama told Comey when he was hired as director that the president simply wanted the bureau to have solid, competent leadership.
Eschewing the spotlight. Putting the focus on other people. Protecting the institution. Respecting the rules. Standing by principle, no matter the political cost. Staying humble. Never demanding loyalty.
Sound like the mirror opposite of anybody you know?
Contact Steve Sebelius at <a href="mailto:SSebelius@reviewjournal.com">SSebelius@reviewjournal.com</a> or 702-383-0253. Follow @SteveSebelius on Twitter.
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SPRINGFIELD — FBI agents were seen Tuesday, Sept. 24, searching the Capitol office of state Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, and later carrying boxes and a brown bag marked “evidence” into two SUVs.
John Althen, a spokesman in the FBI’s Chicago field office, confirmed that agents were present in the building but provided no additional details.
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