Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn was an American lawyer who worked closely with senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. He was born in New York City in 1927 to Albert Cohn, a State judge.
After attending the Columbia Law School, Cohn passed the Bar exam at the age of twenty-one. He became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern district of New York state, and eventually would play a significant role in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951. Cohn's cross examination of Ethel Rosenberg's brother is seen as the central event in that trial, which lead to the Rosenbergs' conviction and execution.
In 1952 Senator McCarthy made Roy Cohn the chief counsel to the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate. Cohn became famous for his aggressive style during the McCarthy-Army hearings. After McCarthy was censured in 1954, Cohn went into private practice. Over the next thirty years his clients included Donald Trump, Tony Salerno, and the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Cohn also advised presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Roy Cohn died on August 2, 1986.