President Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, was released from a federal prison and into home confinement Thursday.
His release comes amid concerns he could be exposed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Cohen, 53, who once proclaimed he “would take a bullet for the president,” was sentenced in 2018 to a three-year federal prison term following guilty pleas to a number of financial and political crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.
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