Rättighetsorganisation vill få ut Cohen från fängelset
Michael Cohen, tidigare personlig advokat till Donald Trump, stämmer USA:s justitieminister William Barr, skriver AP.
I maj gjorde coronavirusets spridning att Cohen fick lämna fängelset för att avtjäna resterande tid av sitt treåriga straff i hemmet. I juli tvingades han återvända till anstalten. Cohen anser att han skickats tillbaka för att han inte ska kunna slutföra en bok som innehåller kritik av Trump.
Stämningen har lämnats in av den amerikanska rättighetsorganisationen American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Cohen dömdes i samband med Rysslandsutredningen. Han har bland annat erkänt ekonomiska bedrägerier och att han ljugit för kongressen, brott som är kopplade till Trumps kampanj.
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Michael Cohen
Wikipedia (en)
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is a disbarred American lawyer and convicted felon who served as an attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump from 2006 until May 2018.Cohen was a vice-president of The Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump's "fixer". He previously served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children's health charity. From 2017 to 2018, Cohen was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.Trump employed Cohen until May 2018, a year after the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections began. The investigation led him to plead guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws at the direction of Trump and "for the principal purpose of influencing" the 2016 presidential election. In November 2018, Cohen entered a second guilty plea for lying to a Senate committee about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.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 Supreme Court, Appellate Division. He reported to the federal prison near Otisville, New York, on May 6, 2019.On May 21, 2020, Cohen was released from prison early due to concerns regarding COVID-19, to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest. On July 2, 2020, Cohen was observed dining at a Manhattan restaurant, and on July 9, 2020, was taken back into federal custody after refusing to agree to conditions of home confinement that included a prohibition on communicating with the media.
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