A surprise REM cameo. “In sworn testimony from 1974 (acquired by the R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, an unexpected collector of Cohn memorabilia), Cohn — who was ‘audacious about his tax insolence’ — claimed he had lost millions of dollars in the stock market. An F.B.I. memo shows that was not true.”
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America’s Most Notorious Fixer Gets a New Biography (Gift Article)
“American Scoundrel” traces the career of Roy Cohn, whose smash-mouth politics continue to shape our own.