Judge orders release of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen by Friday
Source: CNBC
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trumps former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen by Friday afternoon.
The judge found that Cohen was sent back to prison on July 10 in retaliation for failing to agree a day earlier to not to publish a book about Trump as one of multiple conditions for serving the remainder of his three-year prison term on home confinement.
Cohen had been furloughed from prison in late May due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Cohen, 53, pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple financial crimes, as well as to lying to Congess about an aborted bid to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. He also pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to faciliating hush money payments to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who say they had sex with Trump.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/michael-cohen-judge-orders-former-trump-lawyers-release-from-prison.html
lark
(23,003 posts)Oh, this has to piss off drumpf and consigliere Barr. Appeal filed almost immediately. Their top priority is hiding things until after the election and he's out to thwart that.
jimfields33
(15,453 posts)He doesnt play BS games.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)I think Trump was literally trying to kill him by keeping him in prison.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)They'll be after him now for sure.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)moonscape
(4,664 posts)dine out publicly.
OMGWTF
(3,894 posts)wishstar
(5,267 posts)There was a lot of posting of him out dining with speculation that it violated his home release, but in fact it was not a violation of his terms. He was only sent back because he resisted the sudden unexpected new demand that for home release he must cease activity on the book and his related social media posting.
SledDriver
(2,049 posts)inB4 "Cohen didn't fall out a window"
NCjack
(10,279 posts)wishstar
(5,267 posts)News reports said he registered as Democrat for 2018 election
erronis
(14,942 posts)They'd turn on a dime and support whoever paid them the bucks.
Just turns out that the GOP is the party that likes to pay lots of money for dirty tricks.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)erronis
(14,942 posts)multiple passports. They also take money from multiple types of donors, some in conflict with each other.
IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)ScratchCat
(1,956 posts)Trump and Barr abused power to SEND SOMEONE TO PRISON for refusing to play political games. If the Democrats let this stand, we're done as a country.
TNNurse
(6,911 posts)wiggs
(7,788 posts)WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)In the same way even Churchill might have cheered for Stalin after Hitler's fail at Stalingrad.
stopdiggin
(11,089 posts)also really hard to approve the use of the judicial system to muzzle and quash political opposition (and journalism). Kind of the definition of banana republic -- and one of the reasons the cries of "lock her up" were so chilling to thoughtful observers.
(LOVE your profile pic! Miss her!)
steventh
(2,143 posts)I'm looking forward to it He knows things. Bwahaha.
erronis
(14,942 posts)And rarely change their channel. Don't want to be disturbed by images from non-fux sources.