For 13 years, one of Donald Trump's "closest friends" was Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped condemn Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair and worked as Sen. Joe McCarthy's legal aide during the Red Scare's infamous communist hearings. Being Trump's friend, naturally, has its perks — such as when Trump rewarded Cohn for legal help with "a pair of diamond-encrusted cuff links and buttons in a Bulgari box," The New York Times reports.
At least, one would assume this is the kind of perk a mentor and friend of Trump would have. But after Cohn's death in 1986, his partner was in for a rude awakening:
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