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...unlikable as Cohn may have seemed, he was admired by many Americans as a relentless, even ruthless, anti-Communist investigator. He certainly had no stronger advocate than McCarthy, who called him "the most brilliant young fellow I've ever...
...therefore, ironical that Cohn did so much to bring about McCarthy's eventual downfall. The way it came about was that Cohn had a bosom buddy, G. David Schine, the wealthy, not-too-smart son of a hotel-chain owner. Cohn sponsored Schine as an unpaid McCarthy staff investigator. Together, the two went to Europe on a Keystone Cops binge, searching for Communism and mismanagement in U.S. Information Service offices abroad. Soon after their return, Schine made the mistake of getting drafted as a buck private into the U.S. Army. Cohn tried to crowbar the Army into granting Schine...
...Cohn was different. He bounced right back to New York, where, as a bachelor, he still shares a seven-room Park Avenue apartment with his widowed mother. He became a partner in a highly successful law firm and began looking for what he has called "the sweet deal"-high finance. Borrowing $900,000 from Hong Kong and Panamanian moneylenders, he gathered control of the flagging Lionel Corp. (toy trains, electronics, etc.) in 1959. For a while Lionel picked up, but it fell back again, losing a whopping $4,500,000 in 1962 alone. Entrepreneur Cohn also bought a swimming pool...
Almost all of Cohn's financial enterprises were characterized by constant litigation-suits, countersuits and Government investigations. Moreover, while several of Cohn's companies lost money, his own wealth grew to an estimated $2,000,000. Then came last week's federal grand jury indictment, accusing Cohn and another attorney, Murray Gottesman, of perjury, conspiracy to commit perjury, and conspiracy to obstruct justice...
...investigation proceeded, Cohn, according to the charges, conspired with Garfield to prevent the four men from being indicted by the grand jury. Cohn got Gottesman into the act, and Gottesman, says the indictment, went to see Morton Robson, who was then chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District in New York (though he was not in charge of the United Dye case), "to effectuate the agreement." What happened after that has not been spelled out in the charges against Cohn. The fact is, that none of the four men was indicted by the 1959 grand jury...