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Cohen began practicing personal injury law in New York in 1992.[9] As of 2003, Cohen was an attorney in private practice and CEO of MLA Cruises, Inc., and of the Atlantic Casino.[10] In 2003, when Cohen was a candidate for New York City Council, he provided a biography to the New York City Campaign Finance Board for inclusion in its voters' guide, listing him as co-owner of Taxi Funding Corp. and a fleet of New York City taxicabs numbering over 200.[10][11][12] At the time, Cohen was business partners in the taxi business with Simon Garber.[12]
As of 2017, Cohen was estimated to own at least 34 taxi medallions through 17 limited liability companies (LLCs).[12] Until April 2017, "taxi king" Evgeny Freidman managed the medallions still held by Cohen; this arrangement ended after the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission decided not to renew Freidman's licenses.[12] Between April and June 2017, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance filed seven tax warrants against Cohen and his wife for $37,434 in unpaid taxi taxes due to the MTA.[13]
In 2006, Cohen was a lawyer at the law firm Phillips Nizer LLP.[14] He worked at the firm for about a year before taking a job at The Trump Organization.[9]
While at the company, Cohen became a close confidant to Donald Trump, maintaining an office near Trump at Trump Tower. Cohen aided Trump in his struggle with the condominium board at the Trump World Tower, which led to Trump successfully obtaining control of the board.[9]
Cohen has been involved in real estate ventures in Manhattan; between 2011 to 2014, Cohen purchased and sold four Manhattan apartment buildings in Manhattan for $11 million and sold them for $32 million.[9][15] Cohen sold the four properties at above their assessed values, in all-cash transactions, to LLCs owned by persons whose identities are not public.[16] After this was reported by McClatchy DC in October 2017, Cohen said that all four properties were purchased by an American-owned "New York real estate family fund" that paid cash for the properties in order to obtain a tax deferred (Section 1031) exchange, but did not specifically identify the buyer.[15]
In 2015, Cohen purchased an Upper East Side apartment building for $58 million.[
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