Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews an expert on Mob lawyers,  Australian lawyer Tony Taouk, about Roy Cohn. We learn that Mr. Cohn was a flamboyant fixture in New York City and “made his bones” as the advisory lawyer to Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American activities during the 1950s. One of Roy Cohn’s most famous mob cases was the time he helped Carmine Galante beat a parole revocation.

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Tony Taouk is an Australian lawyer and a Mafia researcher who specializes in the subject of mob trials and mob lawyers. He has also traveled to the United States and visited mob-related sites in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas.

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Transcript

 

SPEAKERS

GARY JENKINS, Roy Cohn, Tony Taouk, Carmine Galante

00:00

And this grandfatherly man said that I’m gonna leave

00:04

the country good. What

00:05

are you gonna do when you get to the country?

00:07

Well, I mean, I tried peppers last week now I’m gonna plant tomatoes.

00:11

His name is Carmine Galante, the late Carmine Galati, who the papers said was the godfather of the mafia. Okay.

00:18

You think that had an influence on the federal judgment? He held that you were right in the parole customers role? I

00:23

think so

00:24

he thinks a farmer ought to be able to say the right thing.

00:26

So I mean, it’s very well known that what I do,

00:29

I don’t have to believe a person is innocent. Like we thought we got Galante or Tony Salerno or something like that. I don’t have to believe in their innocence in a particular case, I have to believe one of two things. Number one, that that person is innocent in the particular case, or that there are some extraordinary circumstances which make the prosecution unfair.

00:50

Well, hey all you wiretappers out there. Welcome back to the studio of Gangland Wire. We got a special show if you listen to that little promo that was Carmine Golante talking with his lawyer Roy Cohen right after Roy did a deal that got him out of jail. He was talking about that what he was gonna go do. I’ve got a an Australian lawyer, Tony Taouk, from down-under from Sydney, Australia,