Michael Cohen to be RELEASED from prison over coronavirus fears with ex-Trump lawyer ordered to stay at home
MICHAEL Cohen, President Trump's convicted ex-lawyer, is reportedly to be released from prison tomorrow, and will serve the rest of his three-year sentence at home.
Cohen's release comes amid concerns, a source told the .
The ex-lawyer will be released from the federal prison in Otisville, on Thursday on furlough.
Cohen, 53, was serving a three-year sentence, after he pleaded guilty to tax fraud, bank fraud, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress in 2018.
He was originally scheduled to be released from prison in November 2021.
Amid coronavirus concerns, however, he will finish the rest of his sentence at home starting tomorrow, according to multiple reports.
Cohen's release comes just a month after amid concerns of .
His release to home confinement was originally anticipated for May 1, but it didn't emerge until Wednesday that he will leave the federal facility tomorrow.
The former lawyer's release from jail comes just days after reports emerged that Paul Manafort, Trump's ex-campaign boss, would also
Manafort, 71, was in jail on charges related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation stemming from from his Ukraine-related work from 2006 and 2015.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of prisoners have been released early over concerns of the facilities becoming hotspots for outbreaks.
Attorney General previously ordered the Bureau of Prisons to increase the use home confinement for inmates.
He also ordered prisons to quicken the release of inmates that are considered high-risk.
Otisville is not one of the prisons that was given the orders by Barr.
According to the latest data from the Bureau of Prisons, 2,265 inmates and 188 staff have tested positive for coronavirus.
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A total of 2,177 inmates and 389 staff have recovered, and 58 inmates that have died from COVID-19, the reports.
In total, there are 137,830 inmates in federal Bureau of Prisons institutions, and another 11,818 in community-based centers.
At the Otisville facility where Cohen has been held, 12 inmates and 14 staff have recovered from the virus, while one additional staff member is currently positive for COVID-19.
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