Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s ex-attorney, is set to be released early from prison as a protection measure against COVID-19, according to reports.
CNN and Reuters reported on Thursday evening that Cohen, who has served less than a year, will soon be released and serve the rest of his three-year prison sentence for campaign finance violations and tax evasion in his home. He will first be held for two weeks under quarantine.
Formerly a hardline loyalist to Trump, Cohen flipped on the President in 2018 amid the fallout over the hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Former Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is also behind bars for bank fraud and witness tampering, has also requested an early release as he serves his seven-year prison sentence.
Hope he isn’t visited by Trumps friends.
On the one hand, he deserves this break. On the other hand, so do tens/hundreds of thousands of other relatively low-risk prisoners who don’t have as many connections, as much money for lawyers and as white a face.
Even in the case of Covid 19 the “connected” live by one standard and the “less connected” live by another standard.
Guess he’s special. Read about 1000 prisoners are being released. Just wondering about the 1000’s more and oh, those kids in cages on the border that have disappeared from sight.
I hope some organization like Pro Publica checks out who isn’t being released from that jail. COVID doesn’t discriminate. Unless they empty that joint there’s something other than COVID concern. I imagine COVID is just an excuse to let Cohen out and it won’t apply to many others.
“do the rest of his sentence at home” is an oxymoron.