Roy Cohn

DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement

| Importance: 8/10

Just three years after settling the landmark housing discrimination case with a court-supervised consent decree, the Department of Justice returned to federal court with new allegations: the Trump Organization had violated the settlement terms and continued systematic discrimination against Black …

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Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt

| Importance: 7/10

After nearly two years of aggressive legal combat, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump signed a consent decree settling the Department of Justice’s landmark housing discrimination lawsuit. The settlement included the standard legal disclaimer that it was “in no way an admission” …

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DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination

| Importance: 8/10

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a major civil rights lawsuit against Donald Trump, his father Fred Trump, and their real estate company, Trump Management Inc., for systematic racial discrimination in housing. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, …

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Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network

| Importance: 8/10

In early 1953, Roy Cohn begins developing a systematic blackmail infrastructure during the McCarthy Senate hearings, leveraging anti-communist hysteria and homophobic tactics to gather compromising information on political and cultural figures. As 24-year-old chief counsel to Senator Joseph …

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