Judge Orders Michael Cohen Released From Prison, Says Return Was 'Retaliation'

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A federal judge orders Michael Cohen to be released from prison

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. to be released to home confinement after finding that the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for Cohen’s plan to write a book about the president.

Cohen had been held in solitary confinement in a New York federal prison since July 9th after he was ushered back to prison following a coronavirus furlough in May. Judge Alvin Hellerstein made the ruling on Thursday, ordering Cohen to be released by 2 p.m. on Friday following a COVID-19 test,“I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory. And it’s retaliation because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others,” Hellerstein said.

 

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