A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to be released from jail and into home confinement, claiming that his return into custody earlier this month was in retaliation for writing a book about Trump.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Thursday said Cohen—who is serving a three-year sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to Congress—must be released from a federal prison in upstate New York by 2 p.m. on Friday. He has been held in solitary confinement at a facility in Otisville, around 70 miles northwest of New York City, since July 9. He will be released into the custody of his son and transition into a setting of home confinement in Manhattan.
