Schine, [Gerard] David (G. David Schine)

US anti-Communist, hotel businessman, lawyer, and soldier

chief consultant to Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 1953, as aide to Joseph McCarthy

anti-Communist investigation partner and reportedly homosexual lover of Roy Cohn

drafted into Army as private 1953

according to charges made by Army lawyers during Army-McCarthy hearings, received preferential military treatment due to intervention by Joseph McCarthy, but according to McCarthy, Schine was used as a bargaining chip to convince McCarthy to drop charges of Communist infiltration at Army Communications Center at Fort Monmouth

discharged from Army as corporal 1955

president of Schine Enterprises 1957-1963

president of Ambassador Hotel Co. 1960-1963, 1964-1967

president of David Schine and Co., Inc. 1965-1982

executive producer of movie "The French Connection" 1971

died in airplane crash