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alp227

(32,047 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 03:30 PM Apr 2020

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen out of solitary confinement

Source: Reuters

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been removed from solitary confinement in a federal prison where he is serving time for violating campaign finance laws, his attorney told Reuters on Saturday.

Cohen was transferred on Wednesday to a Special Housing Unit at the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in New York state, a disciplinary section of the prison, Reuters reported this week.

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Cohen, who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for directing hush payments to pornographic film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed they had affairs with Trump. Trump has denied having the encounters.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cohen/trumps-former-lawyer-michael-cohen-out-of-solitary-confinement-idUSKCN21T0T0



And the reason why he got sent to solitary?

Cohen was placed in solitary after another inmate complained about his internet use, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.
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BComplex

(8,063 posts)
2. Another inmate complained about his internet use? Does that sound fishy to anyone else but me?
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 03:36 PM
Apr 2020

This has trump's fingerprints on it.

TexasTowelie

(112,387 posts)
6. Did Cohen spend too much time on PornHub?
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 04:22 PM
Apr 2020

I can understand granting prisoners Internet access in the prison library if they are working on filing appeals, but when have prisons started granting Internet access or possessing any type of electronic equipment beyond possibly a radio in their cells?

truthisfreedom

(23,152 posts)
5. Any guesses whether the cameras work in his part of the prison?
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 04:14 PM
Apr 2020

Any guesses whether he dies of “covid-19”?

johnnyfins

(828 posts)
9. It is Still amazing to me that Individual #1 gets away scott free
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 07:50 PM
Apr 2020

Doesn't even have his name mentioned. BULLSHIT

Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts)
10. Michael Cohen Is in Solitary Confinement After Mysterious Dispute with Fellow Inmate
Sat Apr 11, 2020, 10:17 PM
Apr 2020

Michael Cohen Is in Solitary Confinement After Mysterious Dispute with Fellow Inmate
by Elura Nanos | 10:43 am, April 10th, 2020

When former Trump fixer Michael Cohen requested that the terms of his imprisonment be adjusted to protect him from contracting coronavirus, we’re sure this wasn’t quite what he had in mind.

According to reports, Cohen was transferred Wednesday to what’s known as a “Special Housing Unit” at the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution–a minimum-security prison outside New York City. Fans of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black will remember the “SHU” for its less euphemistic name: solitary confinement.

Cohen was reportedly relegated to solitary after he got into some kind of scuffle with another inmate over Cohen’s internet use. Cohen’s attorney Roger B. Adler told Fox News that was his “understanding that a verbal altercation with another inmate prompted a transfer from general population to SHU pending the completion of a routine investigation.”

Perhaps this “verbal altercation” arose because Cohen’s fellow inmates were displeased with Cohen’s social media presence? Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Cohen’s Twitter account has been quite active and vocal about the need for prisons to make accommodations to inhibit the spread of the virus.

More:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/michael-cohen-is-in-solitary-confinement-after-mysterious-dispute-with-fellow-inmate/?utm_source=mostpopular



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