Michael Cohen to be Released Early from Prison due to Coronavirus.
Source: CNN
(CNN) -- The federal Bureau of Prisons has notified Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, that he will be released early from prison due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter and his lawyer. Cohen is serving a three-year sentence at the federal prison camp in Otisville, NY, where 14 inmates and seven staff members at the complex have tested positive for the virus.
Cohen was scheduled for release in November 2021, but he will be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence from home confinement, the people said. He will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine at the prison camp before he is released.
Cohen was notified on Thursday of his pending release, and his lawyer, Roger Adler, confirmed it to CNN.
His pending release comes as the Bureau of Prisons, which has been under pressure for its early handling of the virus at its facilities, has been thinning out its prison populations by releasing some nonviolent and medically vulnerable inmates to home confinement or furloughing their sentences in response to the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/michael-cohen-to-be-released-prison-coronavirus/index.html
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)That will be the Friday news dump
Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)riversedge
(69,727 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)Remember what happened to Jeffery Epstein?...And he was in prison. But they got to him. And I think that Cohen is in serious danger..
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)I cant believe Barr approved that, if he even had a hand in it. For Trump not to fight it, there must be a plan under the surface.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)though i'm happy for Cohen that he'll be with his family.
bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)JI7
(89,182 posts)they want to make an example out of him and what happens to people who don't stay loyal to the shit.
treestar
(82,383 posts)of prison too. But there's always "accident."
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)You are right. Epstein was in prison and they got to him there. If Cohen was in any danger, they would have gotten to him in prison, too.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)If the son-of-a-bitch isn't kept away from Trump's other consiglieres and he isn't kept off the internet, he will be free to ratfuck Democrats from the comfort of his own home.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)Doubt hes interested in helping Individual 1 at this point
yaesu
(8,020 posts)tavernier
(12,322 posts)and Cohen will cry and kiss his ring again.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)He seemed truly regretful of his part in Trump's life.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)I agree.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)During his house testimony, he seemed very contrite.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)need to hear about his life with Donnie Bodybags.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)When it comes to people who willingly fall on the sword for Trump or get in bed, figuratively, with Republicans, I don't.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Auggie
(31,067 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)non-Covid and Covid. Instead, they release the high profiles ones who have influence. Don't like it.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)just read the other day he was in solitary. Now he's getting released? Don't know how he can keep himself safe. It's not like he can trust anyone at all.
llashram
(6,265 posts)an African-american, same exact circumstance, release never would happen
mainer
(12,013 posts)I think Michael Cohen really is a changed man. And he knows where all the bodies are buried. I'm glad he's out, and I think it's wrong that he alone got sentenced to prison for a crime that was instigated by his boss.