A former lawyer trump Cohen was released from prison because of the epidemic of the coronavirus
The Federal Bureau of prisons in the United States has notified former counsel of President Donald trump, Michael Cohen, sentenced the case of trump funding his election campaign that he will be released for pandemic coronavirus. This April 17, told the TV channel CNN , citing attorney Cohen.
Cohen is serving a three-year sentence in a Federal prison in Otisville, new York, where COVID-19 was found to have 14 prisoners and seven staff members.
He was supposed to be released in November 2021, but because of the epidemic he was allowed to serve the remaining part of the sentence under house arrest.
However, before you get out of prison, he will spend 14 days in quarantine.
Cohen notified about the release on April 16. He was held in prison for almost a year.
Cohen worked with trump in 2007. In June 2018, the US President said that no longer cooperates with the lawyer.
9 APR 2018 agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation in new York searched the office of the priest, seizing correspondence and tax documents. Representatives of the lawyer acknowledged that such actions are “partly” related to the investigation of RF interference in American elections.
August 21 in court, Cohen pleaded guilty in eight of the 18 counts of tax evasion, providing false information to banks and financial irregularities during the election campaign trump in 2016. In particular, they talked about payments for “silence” the porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen Mcdougal, who had an affair with trump.
Dec 12, district court of new York sentenced Cohen to three years in prison. The judge at the meeting noted that Cohen deserves credit for a guilty plea.
