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. To contact our guest or get a good lawyer in Syndey, Australia, Click here 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. Subscribe to the Podcast for a new gangster story every week. Support the Podcast. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Donate to the podcast. Click here! 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,