Through all Trump's legal wars and woes, one lawyer's influence still holds sway : NPR

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https://www.npr.org/2022/07/17/1111715068/in-all-trump-s-legal-wars-and-woes-one-lawyer-s-influence-still-holds-sway

In March of 2017, as clashes with the FBI director and attorney general were erupting just weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump was asking out loud: "Where's my Roy Cohn?"

In December of 2020, with just weeks left in his term, Trump still had not had his question answered.

He was surrounded by lawyers. But none could play the role — or take the place — of the controversial counselor who decades earlier had changed his life.

Cohn was already a legend when Trump met him in 1973. Cohn had been in the news for decades, prosecuting nuclear espionage or searching for communists or defending celebrity clients. Among those he represented were Cardinal Francis Spellman, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and the New York crime bosses Carmine Galante and John Gotti.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. Wasn't "Teflon don" Gotti sentence to life in prison? So much for legend Cohen

One can only hope that someone will bring down ffg#45 someday. 🤞

1992
June 23
Mafia boss John Gotti, aka “Teflon Don,” sentenced to life [History Channel]

On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/teflon-don-sentenced-to-life&ved=2ahUKEwjP9a34yYD5AhUiIkQIHftCD3MQFnoECDMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0OSHbZb84wOrT0rcrG6w6q

[erronis]

2. I'll bet Gotti had "out-lived" his usefulness to the rest of the criminal establishment.

I was recently reminded of how some of the major corporations were involved in trying to overthrow the US gov't in 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

As far as I know, none of the major plotters were even slapped on the wrist.

Same for crime gangs (trumps, gottis,etc.). If they have enough tentacles into the power they'll walk free. When they can't even get 1,000 people to show up for a BIG RALLY, then someone will cut them free.

[empedocles]

4. Sequestered jury was key. Prosecutor's longterm diligence [Mueller] big.

[empedocles]

3. The cohn, gotti, trump triangle is very interesting

[I have long thought trump was at least influenced by, if not modeled after, gotti. [publicity, flamboyance, hair, clothing consciousness, public constituencies manipulation, realization of what one can get away with, celebrity manipulation, compromat, - the list may be endless!]