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Former Trump 'fixer'
Michael Cohen released from federal prison due to coronavirus
Tom Winter and Dareh Gregorian
May 21, 2020, 11:23 AM EDT
President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was released from federal prison on Thursday because of coronavirus concerns and will serve the rest of his three-year sentence at home.''
He was seen by reporters entering his New York City apartment building wearing a cap, black suit jacket, jeans and a mask. He nodded but did not make any comments.
Cohen, who pleaded guilty to a number of charges including campaign finance fraud, was initially set to be released from federal lockup in Otisville, New York, in November 2021. He has served just over a year of his sentence.
The federal Bureau of Prisons approved the early release after Cohen's lawyers requested that he have his sentence cut short or serve the remainder at home because of unsafe prison conditions. He was initially slated to return home on May 1, but his release was held up in what his former lawyer Lanny Davis called an "unexplained delay."
Cohen, 53, was sentenced to three years behind bars for what a federal judge called a “veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, lying to Congress about the president’s business dealings with Russia and failing to report millions of dollars in income. He has been disbarred in New York.
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