Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s personal attorney and the key witness against him in his New York state case, was denied early release from his probation following his three-year prison sentence on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman in Manhattan said Cohen has continued to lie in recent comments, citing comments he made in a book and on television in March when he said he had not committed tax fraud, the his charges were “all 100 percent inaccurate” and that he was “threatened” by prosecutors who pleaded guilty.
Cohen is a regular on cable news issues, often giving his opinion on Trump.
Cohen’s lawyer, David M. Schwartz, said he has “clearly demonstrated” his rehabilitation after becoming a “model prisoner” who has been “cooperative with all government authorities.”
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Michael Cohen was denied release from his probation on Friday. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to several charges, including tax evasion, campaign finance violations, lying to Congress and several banks to obtain campaign financing and was sentenced to three years in prison.
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New York prosecutors relied on Cohen’s testimony before indicting Trump earlier this year on 34 counts connected to alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal after the feds denied prosecutor to file charges against him. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Cohen also spoke out against Trump in two memoirs: “Disloyal” in 2020 and “Revenge” in 2022.
He worked as Trump’s personal attorney for more than a decade.
Cohen served nearly two-thirds of his three-year house arrest because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Cohen told the Associated Press that he would issue a statement on Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
