U.S. lets ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen publish book while serving sentence at home

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, will be allowed to publish a book critical of the U.S. president before the Nov. 3 election while completing his criminal sentence at home, under an agreement filed on Thursday.

The agreement between Cohen’s lawyers and federal prosecutors also frees Cohen to engage with news organizations and use social media, as he serves the remainder of his three-year term for campaign finance violations and other crimes in home confinement.

“There shall be no specific media provision” governing Cohen’s activities, according to the agreement, which requires approval by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan.

Cohen, 53, had served about one year of his prison term before being sent home to his Manhattan apartment in May, because of the risk of contracting COVID-19 behind bars.

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POLITICS JULY 30, 2020 / 1:46 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Karen Freifeld, Jonathan Stempel
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cohen/u-s-lets-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-publish-book-while-serving-sentence-at-home-idUSKCN24V38Q

[tinrobot]

1. "Lets"? Nope. How about "cant' prevent".

He has the freedom to speak and write.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. As with Bolton's book,...

unless the contents of Cohen's can be by used by prosecutors to indict, try, convict, and jail Trump, I'm not interested in what he has to say.

Trump is an unhinged, racist, misogynist, asshole?

Yeah, we already knew that.

[azureblue]

6. it's called death by a thousand cuts

Add everything else that is coming after Trump and this could be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

[rickyhall]

3. It would probably be fiction anyway.

[azureblue]

7. I doubt it.

NT

[elleng]

4. Someone discovered the First Amendment???

[FakeNoose]

5. Criminals get out of prison because of the risk of contracting Covid behind bars

... but it's OK to send the kids back to school?