Editing Roy Cohn (section)

==Legal career in New York==
After resigning from McCarthy's staff, Cohn had a 30-year career as an attorney in New York City. His clients included [[Donald Trump]];<ref>{{Cite news|first=Michael|last=Kruse|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/06/donald-trump-loyalty-staff-217227|title=I Need Loyalty|work=[[Politico]]|date=March 6, 2018|access-date=March 14, 2018}}</ref> [[New York Yankees]] baseball club owner [[George Steinbrenner]];<ref name="Guard"/> [[Aristotle Onassis]];<ref name="Auletta" /> [[American Mafia|Mafia]] figures [[Anthony Salerno|Tony Salerno]], [[Carmine Galante]], [[John Gotti]] and [[Mario Gigante]]; [[Studio 54]] owners [[Steve Rubell]] and [[Ian Schrager]]; the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]]; Texas financier and philanthropist [[Shearn Moody Jr.]];<ref name=fortune>{{cite news |title=Who's Crazy: The IRS or Mr. Moody? |work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/08/21/205403/index.htm |access-date=March 5, 2011 |first=Andrew E. |last=Serwer |date=August 21, 1995}}</ref> and business owner Richard Dupont. Dupont, then 48, was convicted of aggravated harassment and attempted [[grand larceny]] for his attempts at coercing further representation by Cohn for a bogus claim to property ownership in a case against the actual owner of 644 Greenwich Street, Manhattan, where Dupont had operated Big Gym, and from where he had been evicted in January 1979.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/25/nyregion/ex-client-is-guilty-of-pestering-cohn.html|title=Ex-Client Is Guilty Of Pestering Cohn|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 25, 1981}}</ref> Cohn's other clients included retired Harvard Law School professor [[Alan Dershowitz]], who has referenced Cohn as "the quintessential [[fixer (person)|fixer]]".<ref>{{cite interview |interviewer=Jim Gilmore|subject-last1=Dershowitz|subject-first1=Alan|date=July 10, 2018|title=Trump's Showdown: Alan Dershowitz |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/alan-dershowitz/ |access-date=January 25, 2019 |website=[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]] |publisher=[[PBS]]}}</ref> In the 1960s, [[Robert Morgenthau]] as U.S. Attorney for the [[Southern district of new york|Southern District]] indicted Cohn three times in six years on charges ranging from extortion and blackmail to bribery, conspiracy, securities fraud, obstruction of justice and [[witness tampering]], and he was accused in New York of financial improprieties related to city contracts and private investments. He was acquitted on all charges.<ref name="NYTObit" />