Michael Cohen, former president Trump’s former personal attorney and key witness against Trump in the New York state indictment, was denied early release from probation Friday after serving a three-year sentence.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of Manhattan, citing comments in a book and on TV in March that said Cohen had not committed tax evasion, said Cohen continued to lie in recent comments. , said his charges were “all 100 percent.” He said he was inaccurate” and was “blackmailed” by prosecutors into pleading guilty.
Mr. Cohen is a regular on cable news issues and often speaks out about Mr. Trump.
Cohen’s attorney, David M. Schwartz, argued that Cohen “demonstrated” rehabilitation after being a “model prisoner” and “substantially cooperating with all government authorities.”
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Michael Cohen was denied release from probation Friday. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress and several banks to obtain campaign funds, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
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Before indicting Trump on 34 counts related to alleged hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall earlier this year after federal prosecutors declined to press charges against him, New York prosecutors said: Cohen’s testimony. Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Cohen has also spoken out against President Trump in two memoirs, 2020’s “Disloyal” and 2022’s “Revenge.”
He worked as Trump’s personal attorney for more than a decade.
Cohen will serve nearly two-thirds of his three-year prison sentence at home because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Cohen told the Associated Press that he would release a statement on Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
