US Marshals take Michael Cohen into custody after photo shows him at restaurant during home confinement
by Mike Brest
| July 09, 2020 02:46 PM
U.S. Marshals took Michael Cohen into custody after a photo of him at a restaurant surfaced despite the fact that he’s under home confinement.
The 53-year-old former personal lawyer to President Trump was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, according to CNBC, nearly a week after the New York Post published a photograph of him eating at a sidewalk table outside Le Bilboquet, a French restaurant around the corner from his apartment. His lawyer, Jeffrey Levine, said the detention could be related to the photo.
Cohen was granted release from federal prison to home confinement in late May as the Justice Department sought to stem the spread of the coronavirus among inmates.
The president’s former lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty in August 2018 to eight criminal charges, including bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance violations related to facilitating hush-money payments to two women who alleged that they had romantic affairs with Trump.
Cohen’s release date is scheduled for Nov. 22, 2021, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
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