Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, announced Monday that he has finished his prison sentence.
Cohen was originally sentenced to three years in prison but was able to get his sentence reduced through good behavior. Since May 2019, he spent over a year behind prison bars and 18 months under house arrest. Now, out of prison, he will serve three years of supervised release.
“I feel great today,” Cohen told the press. “It’s been long overdue.”
The official end to the #CohenConfinementCountdown…This is what freedom finally looks like! pic.twitter.com/mc1rpeCglb
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) November 22, 2021
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Cohen was sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty in August 2018 to eight criminal charges, including bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance violations. The violations were related to facilitating hush-money payments to two women who alleged they had romantic affairs with Trump.
A lawsuit by Cohen was filed against Trump in March 2019, alleging the president’s business did not pay his legal bills up to a promised amount. The lawsuit was dismissed by a New York judge on Nov. 12.
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In March 2020, Cohen shared a Change.org petition that asked for nonviolent prisoners to be sentenced to home confinement due to COVID-19. He was allowed to carry out the rest of his sentence at home beginning in May 2020.
