Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen was released from prison again on Friday afternoon after a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that he was sent back to prison in retaliation for his plan to release a tell-all book about Donald Trump
On Thursday, Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered that Cohen be released from prison after he was rearrested on July 9 for refusing to sign an agreement that would prevent him from releasing his book before the November elections as he had planned.
“The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory, and it’s retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media,” Judge Hellerstein said. “In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I’ve never seen such a clause.”
