Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is being released from prison early amid fears of coronavirus, according to Cohen’s lawyer and others familiar with the matter, CNN reported Thursday evening.
Cohen, once a staunch ally and surrogate for the president leading up to the 2016 presidential election, is serving three years in a New York federal prison after he was convicted last year of alleged financial crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.
Cohen will spend 14 days quarantining at a prison camp before he is allowed to serve the remainder of his sentences, which end in November 2021, from home.
His release has not yet been finalized by the federal Bureau of Prisons, though Cohen’s lawyer, Roger Adler, confirmed to CNN that he was notified of the decision Thursday evening.
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