In 1952 Senator McCarthy made Roy Cohn the chief counsel to the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate. Cohn became famous for his aggressive style during the [[Army-McCarthy hearings]]. After McCarthy was censured in 1954, Cohn went into private practice. Over the next thirty years his clients included [[Donald Trump]], [[Tony Salerno]], and the [[Catholic Archdiocese of New York]].
Roy Cohn died on August 2, 1986of complications from [[AIDS]].