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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTurns out the main reason Cohen was sent back to jail was...
he refused to sign a trump book gag order. It wasn't because he went out to dinner.
Hours after being taken into custody on Thursday, Cohen was rushed back to the upstate New York prison he got released from just weeks ago over coronavirus concerns, according to his attorney, Jeffrey Levine.
Levine told the New York Daily News that the Bureau of Prisons didnt let him or his clients family know until Friday morning that Cohen had been returned to the federal lockup in Otisville.
I had been trying to locate him all night and no one had any information, and this morning I spoke to the prison and they confirmed to me that hes been there since last night, Levine said. Weve been completely in the dark on this.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/michael-cohen-rushed-back-to-upstate-new-york-prison-after-refusing-to-sign-trump-book-gag-order/ar-BB16AASP
Goodheart
(5,351 posts)dlk
(11,591 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)brush
(53,949 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Snarky, indeed!
/cheers!
brush
(53,949 posts)yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)Is legal, at least until a judge pushes back.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Corrupt to the fricken core from top to bottom.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,812 posts)Orange Idiot are beyond redemption. Good for Cohen. He must have some interesting stuff to share.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)before Congress -- where he was supposed to spill the beans -- resulted in him telling us trump is a racist, stupid, etc. We already knew that.
I'm sure when he eventually writes a memoir, he'll have some damning stories about trump and women, greed, racism, gluttony, etc. But, nothing that will take him down criminally.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I sure as heck would rather stay out of jail and be confined to my own home than go back to jail.
And I assume there's nothing to stop him from working on a book during that time. He just can't publish one. He's already served a year and with good behavior should be out in a year and a half or so.
This sounds kind of like a dilemma a whole lot of prisoners would love to have to grapple with.
brush
(53,949 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I think most prisoners would much rather be sitting at home.
And, according to the lawyer, the prohibition was on him "publishing" a book, not on writing one. Since it's highly unlikely he would have finished writing and gotten a book published in the next few months before the election and after that, there's not much of an urgent market for one, I'm not sure of how restrictive such a prohibition would be.
As I said, it doesn't make sense to me that he would rather go to prison than stay at home because he can't publish a book.
If the lawyer's story is correct, it's a rather privileged situation that most prisoners would love to be in."You mean, I can stay out of prison and live in my own crib for the next two years if I just promise not to write a book? Cool! Where do I sign?"
brush
(53,949 posts)trump wanted him back in jail. The article hints that he may have been about to grant interviews.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)But giving interviews may have been a bridge too far.
He's in prison, whether he's in prison facility or at home. Holding court and opining to the media is not something most prisoners are entitled to do. When they're actually in a facility, they sometimes do interviews, but only with the permission of prison officials and under very tight restrictions. If Cohen assumed he could hang out at home and do interviews from his living room, that was pretty presumptuous.
I'm just not feeling sorry for him based on what I've heard so far.