Despite being the focus of the media spectacle surrounding the sentencing of Michael Cohen, campaign-finance violations factored very little in the three-year prison term issued to him Dec. 12, according to a review of court documents and interviews with sentencing experts.
A federal judge in New York sentenced Cohen to three years in prison and ordered him to pay $2 million in fines, forfeitures, and restitution for tax evasion, making false statements to a bank, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress.
