Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in prison, but his actual entry into prison has been deferred. None of the other three has yet been sentenced-leading to the obvious conjecture that, with this sort of club hanging over their heads, one or all of them may yet end up as witnesses against Cohn...
This time, both Cohn and fellow Attorney Gottesman were called to testify before the grand jury. Both, says the indictment, conspired with others to give "evasive, fictitious, fraudulent, vague, false and manufactured testimony." Furthermore, they conspired "corruptly, and by threats and threatening communications, to influence, intimidate and impede, and endeavored to influence, intimidate and impede witnesses before grand jurors...
...Cohn is nothing if not a windmilling fighter-and no sooner had the indictment been handed down than he began swinging out on all sides. The charges against him, he cried, were "conceived by intimidation, threat and blackmail, a vendetta to get my scalp...
...villain, he claimed, was U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau "and company," who "have abused the power of their office . . . misused public funds . . . sought perjured testimony" out of "personal animus, the desire for political revenge, and an attempt to pander to the longstanding prejudice of his superiors." Among the "superiors," Cohn hinted darkly, was Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, his old foe from the McCarthy Committee days. "History speaks for itself," Cohn told a press conference. "I have never been invited to any of his swimming parties...
That Certain Feeling. As for Morgenthau's "vendetta," it all went back a dozen years or so, Cohn explained, when he was investigating charges of Communist spy infiltration into the Treasury Department. In the 1940s, Cohn recalled, Communist Helper Harry Dexter White was working in the Treasury, and Robert Morgenthau's father Henry was Treasury Secretary. "I have no personal malice toward Morgenthau senior," added Cohn charitably, "but Morgenthau junior has harbored a feeling about this...