Ken Burch
Oct 25, 2024

Here's another detail on the incident that got Roy Cohn disbarred- it wasn't just Roy attempting to make his client, Lewis Rosantiel sign a will in which Cohn would inherit a large sum of money- it was a special codicil to the existing will, which would have made Roy the co-executor of the entire Rosantiel estate- and he didn't just attempt to make the Mr. Rosantiel sign the codicil: he want to Mr. Rosantiel's hospital room, after the man had suffered a massive, debilitating stroke, and, according to the reporting of The Village Voice, actually guided the unconscious Mr. Rosantiel's hand as he "signed" the codicil- the supposed signature was a spiral, which was made, according to the reporting, by Mr. Cohn guiding Mr. Rosantiel's hand in a circular direction.

Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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