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Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen gets 3 years in prison

By Kelly Cohen
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Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen gets 3 years in prison

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday sentenced President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen to three years in prison for his role in a hush-money scandal ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Lawyers for Cohen, 52, had argued that he should serve no jail time since his actions reflected “fierce loyalty” to Trump. But federal District Court Judge William H. Pauley III saw it differently.

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