President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen has been released from prison again.
Cohen, 53, was released from federal prison in New York to home confinement on Friday, according to the Associated Press, a day after a U.S. district judge ruled that his First Amendment rights had been violated.
Cohen was initially granted release from federal prison to home confinement in late May, given the Justice Department’s attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus among inmates. Cohen was ordered back to prison in early July, after which the American Civil Liberties Union and law firm Perry Guha LLP filed a lawsuit on his behalf in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that the federal government had unfairly retaliated against him for not signing an agreement related to his forthcoming book.
The president’s former fixer 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.
