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Reviewer: JerrySa1 ( talk · contribs) 19:26, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
All right, I haven't been all that active on wikipedia in a while, and I'll be busy after break ends, but I thought that this might be a nice thing to do on the side. Roy Cohn is pretty popular in Alternate History timelines so I have some familiarity with the guy. Anyways I'll start doing an in-depth review on Boxing Day.
After a quick glance at the Wikipedia article, a couple of things stick out to me in particular.
"In 1971, businessman Donald Trump moved to Manhattan, where he became involved in large construction projects. In 1973 the Justice Department accused him of violating the Fair Housing Act in his operation of 39 buildings. The government alleged that Trump's corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions and made false "no vacancy" statements to African Americans for apartments it managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
Representing Trump, Cohn filed a countersuit against the government for $100 million, asserting that the charges were irresponsible and baseless. The countersuit was unsuccessful. Trump settled the charges out of court in 1975, saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant." The corporation was required to send a bi-weekly list of vacancies to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and give the league priority for certain locations. In 1978 the Trump Organization was again in court for violating terms of the 1975 settlement; Cohn called the new charges "nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple of planted malcontents." Trump denied the charges."
Besides the parts in quotes, some of the phrasing seems based off of this. I'd reword this area.
The Counter-Espionage section doesn't have any sources to it. It also probably should be combined with the section for the Rosenberg trial.
References 9 and 37 are the same as #3.
References #4, 14, 18, 36, 41, 42, 51, and 53 are dead.
Jerry ( talk) 19:26, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
"Joseph Welch, the Army's attorney in the hearings, made an apparent reference to Cohn's homosexuality. After asking a witness if a photo entered as evidence "came from a pixie", he defined "pixie" (a camera model name at the time)[43] for McCarthy as "a close relative of a fairy." (Fairy is a derogatory term for a homosexual man.) The people at the hearing recognized the slur and found it amusing; Cohn later called the remark "malicious", "wicked", and "indecent"." Wording here is pretty confusing, took me a while to understand what this meant.
I had more written down but it seems like you fixed it while I was writing this. Anyways, besides a bunch of really minor things, there's not a huge amount standing out about this article that needs to be fixed, at least in my opinion, besides what I listed. The article seems mostly ready for GA, even though not much prep work was put into this.
Jerry ( talk) 00:06, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
"Cohn preferred not to hold hearings in open forums, which went well with McCarthy's preference for holding "executive sessions" and "off-the-record" sessions away from the Capitol in order to minimize public scrutiny and to question witnesses with relative impunity. Cohn was given free rein in pursuit of many investigations, with McCarthy joining in only for the more publicized sessions."
"Although the findings of the hearings blamed Cohn rather than McCarthy, they are widely considered an important element of McCarthy's disgrace. After the Army–McCarthy hearings, Cohn resigned from McCarthy's staff and went into private practice." These two need sources, per 2b. Jerry ( talk) 01:25, 28 December 2018 (UTC)