Michael Cohen, former Trump lawyer and fixer, will be freed from prison into home confinement due to coronavirus risk

Trump's ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to be freed from prison into home confinement

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, will be released from prison and be allowed to serve the remainder of a three-year federal criminal sentence in home confinement due to concerns about the coronavirus.

Cohen, 53, currently is incarcerated at the federal camp in Otisville, N.Y. He originally was due to be released there on Nov. 22, 2021.The news comes three weeks after a federal judge in New York flatly rejected Cohen's request that he be released into home confinement due to the chance that he would develop Covid-19.

The Bureau of Prisons recently was instructed by Attorney General William Barr, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, to move to release federal inmates if they would be eligible for home confinement, and if they were at risk of becoming infected with the disease.

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