Michael Cohen’s brain must have gotten scrambled while he was in prison. He was released due to the coronavirus scare and ordered to participate in home confinement for the rest of his sentence. A NY Post photographer took a picture of him out on the town at a restaurant. Having violated his home confinement order, he was sent back to prison, serving his time in solitary confinement.
He is now suing AG Bill Barr and claiming that he was only sent back to prison because he is writing a tell all book on President Trump. What part of home confinement did he not understand? It was made clear to him when he was released that he wasn’t being freed but rather he was getting to serve his confinement in the comfort of his own home.
Cohen was convicted of tax evasion, bank fraud, and lying to Congress. He is still bitter because President Trump refused to pardon him for his crimes. After Trump’s election, he enriched himself by agreeing to lobby for large corporations to his long time client, Donald Trump. Cohen’s lawyers kept referring to his legal status as on a furlough. He was not. He was released on probation, insisting on home confinement with few exceptions such as doctor visits.
But Cohen was locked up again on July 9 after the former Trump fixer was caught by a Post photographer chowing down at a Manhattan restaurant.
Federal officials said he violated the terms of his home confinement — and threw him into solitary confinement back at Otisville.
But Cohen, 53, claims in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan Monday that he was locked up because he refused to cancel plans to publish a behind-the-scenes book that would make Trump out to be “a cheat, a liar, a con man, a racist,” the suit said.
“While on furlough, Mr. Cohen repeatedly made public his intention to publish his book about President Trump soon,” the claim says.