Former president Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, 53, has been granted early release from his three-year prison sentence in order to curtail the spread of Covid-19.
Cohen was sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2018 on two count charges: for making secret payment to women who claimed they had affairs with president Trump, and for lying to the congress about the president’s relationship with Russia.
He was initially set to be released in November 2021.
Cohen’s lawyer’s request that Cohen’s sentence be cut short or be allowed to serve his remaining term in a home confinement was approved by the federal Bureau of Prisons granting Cohen an early release from prison.
Cohen would therefore be released on May 1, 2020, to serve the remainder of his sentence in a home confinement after completing two-week quarantine at the prison, according to Attorney Roger Bennett Adler.
“Cohen, 53, will be allowed to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement. He’ll be released May 1 after a two-week quarantine at the prison,” said, Adler.
A tweet on Cohen’s Twitter handle on March 30 showed that coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the New York facility he was in.
“Confirmed. Inmate tests positive for #coronavirus at FCI Otisville Satellite Camp. It’s time for the Federal Government to act responsibly!” the tweet reads.
This claim was though denied by a federal judge saying that it is “just another effort by Cohen to inject himself into the news cycle.”
Cohen was later put in a solitary confinement after he had an altercation with an inmate.
