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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Apr 20, 2021, 09:22 PM Apr 2021

U.S. judge rejects ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's bid to end sentence early

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a petition by Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for former President Donald Trump, to release him from home confinement in May, six months ahead of schedule.

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl said the petition was premature because prosecutors were not yet required, under a 2018 law allowing early release for some prisoners, to credit Cohen for hundreds of hours of work and courses he completed while imprisoned at a federal facility in New York state.

The Manhattan judge also said Cohen had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, and faced no irreparable harm because there was "no basis to conclude that Mr. Cohen's service of his sentence violates his constitutional rights."Cohen, who represented himself, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The 54-year-old Cohen is serving a three-year sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion and other crimes to which he pleaded guilty in December 2018.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-judge-rejects-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-bid-to-end-sentence-early/ar-BB1fRN3U?li=BBnb7Kz

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U.S. judge rejects ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's bid to end sentence early (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
I hope like hell the individual who ordered those crimes gets charged and convicted groundloop Apr 2021 #1
When will the real criminal tRump be locked up or will he get away with his crimes like so many yaesu Apr 2021 #2
Biden could commute his sentence. joetheman Apr 2021 #3
He could but he shouldn't padah513 Apr 2021 #5
Isn't More Squeezing of This Tube Possible? The Roux Comes First Apr 2021 #4
Trump seems to get lots of tubes to squeeze--year after year. riversedge Apr 2021 #6

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
2. When will the real criminal tRump be locked up or will he get away with his crimes like so many
Tue Apr 20, 2021, 11:23 PM
Apr 2021

repuke presidents before him.

padah513

(2,474 posts)
5. He could but he shouldn't
Wed Apr 21, 2021, 06:12 AM
Apr 2021

Remember that Cohen was a trump goon who would still be a trump goon if he didn't get caught. And the only reason he went to jail was because he wasn't forthcoming with the investigators. Had he been upfront from the beginning, he was in the clear.

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