President Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer has been offered a role at an unnamed political action committee to work as a consultant and make media appearances, his attorney said.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein this week, Cohen’s attorney, Danya Perry, asked for approval.
“Mr. Cohen has an employment offer from a political action committee to provide consulting services and media appearances,” Perry wrote. “He has provided the offer letter and details to the [Residential Re-entry Center] and is awaiting its response.”
Cohen is also at work on a book critical of Trump, which he hopes to discuss with his editor and publisher “as quickly as possible,” Perry said. He hopes to publish the book in advance of Election Day.
Cohen, who Trump labeled a “rat,” pleaded guilty to charges including fraud relating to hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal and for lying to Congress in 2018.
He was returned to prison in July shortly after he revealed plans to publish the memoir, titled Disloyal: The True Story of Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump. Cohen was detained after objecting to a release form banning him from publishing the book or speaking to the media.
The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the ban violated Cohen’s First Amendment Rights.
Hellerstein ordered his release two weeks ago, stating that he had “never seen such a clause,” and lifting the gag order and granting Cohen approval to move forward with the book.
Cohen is serving the majority of his three-year sentence at home after the coronavirus led some nonviolent prisoners to be released.
Recent memoirs by Trump’s niece Mary Trump and former national security adviser John Bolton were challenged in court by the president.
