BREAKING: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen again leaves prison after judge rules reincarceration was retaliation for critical book.
he had been sent back to prison from home confinement as retaliation for his plan to release a book critical of Trump before November’s election.
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes. “How can I take any other inference than that it’s retaliatory?” Hellerstein asked prosecutors, who insisted in court papers and again Thursday that Probation Department officers did not know about the book when they wrote a provision of home confinement that severely restricted Cohen’s public communications.
federal prison officials and U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday, saying he was ordered back to prison because of the book.The Bureau of Prisons responded after Hellerstein’s ruling Thursday, saying any assertion that the reimprisonment of Cohen “was a retaliatory action is patently false.”
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