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Michael Cohen heading back to prison for violating terms of COVID-19 release

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President Trump's former lawyer has been remanded back to federal custody for violating the terms of his furloughed prison sentence. Cohen was released from prison nearly two months ago amid COVID-19 concerns and was being allowed to fulfill the remainder of his three-year sentence from home. According to The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Cohen's return to federal custody was not related to photos recently taken of him dining at a New York City restaurant.

President Trump's former lawyer has been remanded back to federal custody for violating the terms of his furloughed prison sentence. Cohen was released from prison nearly two months ago amid COVID-19 concerns and was being allowed to fulfill the remainder of his three-year sentence from home. According to The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Cohen's return to federal custody was not related to photos recently taken of him dining at a New York City restaurant.

  1. BREAKING: Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen is back in custody less than 2 months after being released from federal prison to serve the rest of his 3-year sentence from home over concerns he could contract the coronavirus while behind bars

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  2. 9 Jul 2020

    NEW: President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been taken back into federal custody for refusing the conditions of his home confinement, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Cohen was originally released from prison due to coronavirus concerns.

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  3. Michael Cohen went to the courthouse today expecting to sign papers for home confinement and to pick up his ankle bracelet. Instead he got taken into custody. BOP says he “refused the conditions of his home confinement.”

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  4. 9 Jul 2020

    Updating story soon but via , Cohen imprisonment wasn't related to NY Post photo of him at restaurant. When he went to switch from furlough to home confinement, he had to sign papers saying no media or publishing a book, which he refused to sign

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  5. Michael Cohen is going back to the slammer. Photo by Christopher Sadowski.

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  6. 9 Jul 2020

    BREAKING / NBC News: Michael Cohen has been remanded back into the custody of federal authorities and will be sent back to jail. This comes after pictures were taken of Cohen at a Manhattan restaurant outside of his residence this weekend. NBC's Adam Reiss reports.

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  7. 9 Jul 2020

    Michael Cohen wasn't on probation, wasn't on house arrest, he was a prisoner who was allowed, because of COVID-19, to serve the remainder of his sentence at home. He willfully went to Manhattan restaurants and tweeted, all things a prisoner can't do. He can only blame himself.

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  8. 9 Jul 2020

    STORY: Law enforcement officials said Cohen refused to sign documents prohibiting him from interacting with the media or writing a book.

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  9. . was taken back into custody this morning - in the middle of discussions with the SDNY about the terms and conditions for home confinement. Cohen's attorney Jeffrey Levine says US Marshall's took him into custody at the SDNY. Cohen is now at Metro Detention

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  10. BREAKING: Michael Cohen taken back into custody. : "The attny. said it could relate to his visit to a NY restaurant. ... This is not ... what [Cohen] was expecting." : "It's worth noting that ... the president was unhappy when he got released from prison."

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  11. 9 Jul 2020

    JUST IN: Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen taken back into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison

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  12. President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday at 10 am ET.

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  13. UPDATE: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to eight charges involving payoffs and campaign contributions. He says he acted at the direction of “the candidate” with the intention of influencing the election.

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