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| Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives back at home after being released from prison during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, U.S., May 21, 2020. (Photo by=REUTERS/Brendan McDermid) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, has been sent back to a federal prison in upstate New York after questioning a gag order as a condition of serving his criminal sentence under home confinement, Cohen's lawyer said. Cohen, 53,attended a meeting with probation officers in Manhattan on Thursday when he was presented with a list of conditions for home confinement, including that he not engage with news media outlets, according to his lawyer, Jeffrey Levine.
After questioning it, Cohen was shackled, sent to a federal jail in Manhattan and then transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, about 70 miles northwest of New York City, where Levine said he is now being held under quarantine and in solitary confinement. Cohen was released from Otisville in May due to concerns over possible exposure to the virus.
He completed a year of his three-year sentence for his role in hush money payments to two women, as well as for financial crimes and lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen had originally been eligible for release in November 2021. The US Bureau of Prisons didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday, but Cohen is listed as an inmate at Otisville on its website.
