The tendrils of Michael Cohen’s news cycle have finally touched Donald Trump Jr., though not in the way one might expect based on the last few weeks of headlines. The personal lawyer to Donald Trump, whose office, apartment, and hotel room were dramatically raided by the F.B.I. last week, reportedly worked closely with the owners of The National Enquirer to hide stories about the alleged affairs of the future president.

But around 2013, when Us Weekly thought they had a credible source to report on Donny’s affair with Aubrey O’Day, a Danity Kane alum who met the young Trump while appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, all Cohen had to do was yell a lot. According to The Wall Street Journal’s source, Cohen—the Luca Brasi to Don Sr.’s Don Corleone and Don Jr.’s Fredo—called Us Weekly to threaten legal action, likely after staffers called Trump Jr.’s representation for comment.

Legal threats against unflattering stories are not unusual in the publishing universe, especially when it comes to the famously litigious tabloid subject Donald Trump. But the anonymous Us Weekly staffer told the paper Cohen was more ridiculous than most lawyers trying to bury a story about one of their clients. He was “one of these New York characters” swearing at the writers and acting “totally over-the-top threatening.” They put him on speakerphone and occasionally muted when the hollering became too much.

Because Trump Sr. was a friend of the magazine, and because editors deemed a legal battle not worth it, they dropped the story, per the W.S.J.’s source. Wenner Media owned the magazine at that time. (Vanity Fair has reached out for comment.) American Media Inc., the owner of The National Enquirer, bought Us Weekly in 2017.