CBSnews: Michael Cohen has been released again.

[triron]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-released-again/

[blueinredohio]

1. Hope he watches his back.

[in2herbs]

2. Hope he hires a food taster. nt

[greenjar_01]

3. Fool shouldn't have been released the first time

Wild how these white dudes serve 28% of their sentence, or less!

[Demsrule86]

4. I completely disagree...why should a guy who confessed, testified against

Trump...did the right thing...be locked up when rats like Manaford are out.

[greenjar_01]

6. They should both be locked up

They committed federal felonies and were properly, even leniently, sentenced under the guidelines.

[dem4decades]

8. so do you agree with Trump that "rats " should be punished?

the entire system is built on rewarding cooperating witnesses.

[greenjar_01]

12. He was rewarded for being a cooperating witness...with a shorter sentence

I of course agreed with that.

That was then shortened once again to almost nothing.

[lame54]

7. I think they're saying...

Neither of them should have been released

[Demsrule86]

18. But they were released. And Stone was sent back because of the book. We can't

let that stand...another assault on our institutional rights.

[triron]

10. And Stone.

[greenjar_01]

13. Yes

[Demsrule86]

17. Absolutely...

[triron]

9. Trump is the one who should be in prison. (And Barr)

[greenjar_01]

11. Yes

[Zambero]

14. He does Trump's bidding and serves time

Trump as president (supposedly) can't be prosecuted for his part in crimes committed. However, he saw fit to have Barr order Cohen back to prison, lest he spill ALL the Goyas before the election. If accountability begins at the top, and that accountability is non-existent, then I don't begrudge an underling who cooperated in his prosecution going free.

[greenjar_01]

15. He was already rewarded for cooperating - with a lighter sentence

It's amazing that he serves just a fraction of that! Don't get me wrong - I think all sentences should be lighter, and many non-existent, but the radical unfairness of shitheels like Michael Cohen serving fractions of their sentences when others do minimum 80%s is beyond fucking scream-worthy.

I begrudge it, for sure.

[Zambero]

19. I begrudge Trump escaping justice

and hypocritically throwing his go-to fixer back into the slammer, lest 1st Amendment rights be exercised. Cohen should not be lumped in with the likes of Flynn, Manafort, and Stone, each of whom has walked free despite having not cooperated with prosecutors.

[triron]

20. Spot on.

[greenjar_01]

21. Cohen should serve his sentence, which already included leniency for cooperation

Why some of y'all keep comparing him to the other criminals who got away with it because of Trump's criminality is a mystery. They should all be locked up, and so should Cohen.

[Zambero]

22. With the bar set equally for all involved that would be a good argument

With blatantly corrupt intent based on "loyalty" as the basis for pardons, commutations, and voiding trial-by-jury verdicts, it is not.

[greenjar_01]

23. The inequality to worry about is between Cohen and the thousands of poor and black and brown

folks who sit in federal custody for 80% of their sentences, not between Cohen and Manafort.

Good God.

[triron]

16. Reasonable to me. It was due to the corona virus. Many prisoners are being released early

especially in California.

[lame54]

5. Stay home this time