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The president’s fixer wanted to be a Goodfella but ended up taking a fall. His revenge is a tawdrily readable tell-all memoirMichael Cohen is no saint. Aside from the obvious, Donald Trump’s former fixer has never entered into a formal cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors, a fact duly noted by the US attorneys’ office for the southern district of New York in its sentencing...

White House dismisses as ‘fan fiction’ the tell-all memoir of convicted former fixer who claims Trump is guilty of the same crimes as himMichael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that president Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scandal that once overshadowed...

Apart from legal trouble, what Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Stone, Gates and Papadopoulos have in common is the presidentTo live outside the law, Bob Dylan sang, you must be honest. It also helps, apparently, to stay as clear as possible from Donald Trump, whose inner circle of advisers has suffered steady attrition since 2017, through a series of encounters with the criminal justice system....

Book by president’s former lawyer will be released in September after justice department gag order to stop publication was droppedA teaser for Michael Cohen’s book about his time as Donald Trump’s lawyer and fixer and his fall from grace was released on Thursday, after the US justice department had issued a gag order to stop the book’s publication that was later dropped.The book, entitled...

Trump’s ex-fixer sued federal prison officials and Barr on Monday, saying he was ordered back because he was writing a bookA judge ordered the release from prison of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying he believed the government retaliated against him for writing a book about Trump.Michael Cohen’s first amendment rights were violated when he was ordered back to prison on 9...

Lawsuit claims Cohen is being held in solitary confinement at New York prison in ‘retaliation’ for drafting book that’s critical of TrumpDonald Trump “cannot imprison Michael Cohen for writing a book”, a senior American Civil Liberties Union official said on Monday night, as the organization filed suit against the federal government. Related: Too Much and Never Enough review: Mary Trump thumps Donald Continue reading...

Donald Trump’s longtime fixer will be released from federal prison Thursday amid concerns of coronavirus outbreaksMichael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, will be released from federal prison Thursday and is expected to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.Cohen has been serving a federal prison sentence at FCI Otisville in...

Trump’s ex-fixer will remain under quarantine for 14 days before he is released to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement Coronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump’s former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will reportedly be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic.Cohen...