Michael Cohen was imprisoned for three years.
The United States former president Donald Trumpin former lawyer Michael Cohen was released from prison on Monday. According to the news agency Reuters.
Cohen, 55, was jailed for three years after receiving a conviction in 2018 for, among other things, campaign campaign misconduct, tax evasion and lying to Congress.
In all the trials, Cohen, who represented himself, pleaded guilty to the crimes from the beginning of the trial. However, Cohen is not yet completely free, as he will spend the next three years in so-called supervised freedom.
Cohen served his first year in prison at Otisville Prison in New York. After the start of the corona epidemic, he was transferred to his home in Manhattan to serve his final sentence.
Cohen himself had applied for early release by May 29, citing the work he had done in prison.
A U.S. federal judge dismissed the application, but finally ordered his release on November 22, about five months before the original prison sentence ended. The judge justified the decision with Cohen’s good conduct.
Cohen served as Trump’s attorney for more than a decade from 2006 to 2018.
In April 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice said it had placed Cohen under criminal investigation in connection with his personal transactions.
Since then, for example, he has served as a witness for a special prosecutor Robert Muellerin in an investigation led by Russia into how Russia tried to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Cohen has also accused Trump of crimes and revealed details about Trump’s numerous scandals.
After his release on Monday, Cohen said he intended to work closely with law enforcement to “ensure that other wrongdoers are held accountable for their actions and that no one is ever thought to be above the law”.
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