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Home Front: Politix
Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to serve out prison sentence at home
2020-04-18
[APNEWS] President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 pandemic.

Cohen is currently locked up at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress. He will remain under quarantine for 14 days before he is released. Federal statistics show 14 inmates and seven staff members at the prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.

After he is released, Cohen will serve the remainder of his sentence at home, according to a Justice Department official and another person familiar with the matter. They could not discuss Cohen’s release publicly and spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity.

Prison advocates and congressional leaders have been pressing the Justice Department for weeks to release at-risk inmates ahead of a potential outbreak, arguing that the public health guidance to stay 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from other people is nearly impossible behind bars.

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But Manafort is gonna die in prison. They have a real hardon for him
Posted by:Fred

#10  TW, thx I'm good quarantining in the mountains, so glad to have Rantburg during all of this
Posted by: Jan   2020-04-18 19:17  

#9  Soon, all you will have to do to avoid federal time is pee on a bed and mutter that Trump paid you to do it...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-18 18:05  

#8  She's on FB, TW
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-18 17:26  

#7  Hi, Jan! How are things going at your end of the world?
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-04-18 17:13  

#6  and in comparison Roger Stone will go to jail soon with his asthma at age 67
Posted by: Jan   2020-04-18 16:15  

#5  Thanks. If he was sentenced to three years, I reckon he will do half of that, so he is as good as out.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-18 13:03  

#4  Wikipedia has the sentence, Clem:

On December 12, 2018, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations. On February 26, 2019, he was officially disbarred by the New York State Bar Association. He reported to the federal prison near Otisville, New York, on May 6, 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-04-18 12:57  

#3  But in the end, who cares? Let him be home under house arrest.

I wish the article had stated just how long "the remainder" of his sentence is, just because.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-18 09:45  

#2  And he'll have a chance to write his book now, too.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-18 07:10  

#1  So his 'punishment' is the same as ours?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-18 07:07  

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