Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, walked out of federal court a free man on Monday at the end of his three-year sentence for campaign finance violations and other crimes.
Mr Cohen, 55, who served as the vice-president of the Trump Organisation and Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, pleaded guilty in August 2018 to eight charges, including campaign finance violation, tax fraud and bank fraud. In November that year, he entered another guilty plea for lying to Congress. He was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2018, and debarred by the New York Supreme Court in 2019.
“I am done Sunday night,” Mr Cohen told Jeff Pegues in an interview on CBS News podcast America: Changed Forever on Saturday. “Monday first thing in the morning I will be taking myself down to 500, Pearl Street, where I will be bringing my release papers to, I’m not 100 per cent sure which floor, have them executed and then I am released.”
“I am extremely close and I am extremely thankful that I will be able to celebrate Thanksgiving out of my home,” Mr Cohen said. “But I have done 18 months in home confinement which is very difficult.” On Monday, Mr Cohen posted a photograph of himself in a vehicle, holding an envelope which appeared to contain those papers.
Source: Reuters
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