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    In a crowded field of Trump exposés, only Michael Cohen's shows how he corrupts souls

    by David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times Sep 16, 2020 5 minutes

    "Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump" by Michael Cohen; Skyhorse (432 pages, $32.50)

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    Decades before Michael Cohen rose to fame as Donald Trump's lawyer-fixer, he spent summers working for his uncle Morty at the El Caribe, a lively Brooklyn social club frequented by New York mobsters.

    It was there, on a "glorious" sunny afternoon in 1980, as Cohen recounts in "Disloyal" - his mea culpa memoir of his relationship with Trump - that he witnessed a drunk patron skinny-dipping in the crowded pool get shot in the rump by a local hood.

    "I had been an eyewitness to the whole scene," he writes. "I had seen the shooter and could identify him, of course." But after a hard look from another gangster, Cohen got

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