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Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for former President Trump and the key witness against him in his New York State indictment, was denied early release from probation following his three-year sentence on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman in Manhattan said Cohen continued to lie in recent remarks, citing remarks he made in a book and on television in March when he said he had not committed tax fraud. inaccurate” and that he was “threatened” by prosecutors to plead guilty.
Cohen is a regular on cable news issues and often voices his views on Trump.
Cohen’s attorney, David M. Schwartz, claimed that he had “clearly demonstrated” that he was rehabilitating after being a “model inmate” who had “substantially cooperated with all government agencies.”
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Michael Cohen was not released from probation on Friday. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to several charges including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, lying to Congress and several banks to obtain campaign finance and was sentenced to three years in prison.
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Prosecutors in New York relied on Cohen’s testimony before indicting Trump earlier this year on 34 charges related to alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal after federal prosecutors declined to press charges against him. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Cohen has also spoken out against Trump in two memoirs: “Infidelity” in 2020 and “Revenge” in 2022.
He worked as Trump’s personal attorney for more than a decade.
Cohen was serving nearly two-thirds of his three-year prison sentence at home due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Cohen told the Associated Press he will be issuing a statement Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
