Michael Cohen set to begin serving at cushy prison
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
5/6/2019 9:09:54 AM
Former President Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is scheduled to check in Monday at a federal lockup in Otisville, NY, where he will begin serving a three-year stint for crimes including campaign finance violations tied to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf. Cohen, 53, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for Trump, whom he now calls a “con man,” will step inside the medium-security Federal Correctional Facility Otisville, in the Catskills about 70 miles from Manhattan, by his 2 p.m. deadline. The president’s former “fixer” was originally scheduled to start his sentence in March, but a judge granted him
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/6/2019 9:34:53 AM (No. 79119)
Anyone who would disclose attorney-client communication is deserving of Super Max in Colorado.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Donna M 5/6/2019 9:37:32 AM (No. 79131)
Listening to Bernie Kerik on Joe Piscopo´s program...Otisville is cushy as prisons go, it is more like a barracks, but it is still a prison. I guess he will have plenty of time to write memoirs, and he will likely use his phone privileges to relay messages to the press to dump on his former employer. He should try to mind his own business but I have the funny feeling he won´t.
Meanwhile Paul Manafort was in solitary PRIOR to conviction. Some threat, some justice, right? S/o....one wonders where he is serving now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 5/6/2019 9:46:36 AM (No. 79121)
Mr Cohen was set up again. "Plenty of times to write memoirs or leak?" Hit it convict. You BE a couple of steps from forever. Excuse the prison vernacular.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
winnie1 5/6/2019 9:59:00 AM (No. 79125)
Cohen was making his last rounds for over a month now, shacking hands, eating out for breakfast, lunch and dinner.. He thinks he is a celebrity but he is in the same category as the Weiner aka Carlos Danger. I wonder if he will have the Red Carpet there as he enters jail.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fayebeck 5/6/2019 10:09:18 AM (No. 79126)
But for the Trump collusion investigations this would have never happened. I think the Manafort, Cohen and Stone stuff is wrong and they should be pardoned by the President, given restitution, and legal costs be re-imbursed. Same goes for Flynn. This is not right.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2019 10:48:03 AM (No. 79123)
A scene in last week’s “Blue Bloods” was set in a visitation room at Otisville. Didn’t look v. “cushy” to me…
Prison is prison. Some undoubtedly nicer than others, but that is relative. And prison is prison.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2019 10:50:35 AM (No. 79132)
Re #5, problem is that they had personal offenses that had nothing to to with Donald J. Trump. Their own crimes. Before they were associated with him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/6/2019 11:49:10 AM (No. 79127)
Since when did a personal lawyer paying off a blackmailer or shakedown artist with a client’s personal funds become a federal crime?
It appears that has only happened one time, after Cohen plead guilty to doing that, which made him the one and only perpetrator of that one off “crime”.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ginadee 5/6/2019 12:14:09 PM (No. 79133)
I believe Cohen deserves what he is getting.
He broke the trust of Attorney-Client privilege and to me, that in itself should be a crime that is punishable.
Gen. Flynn´s case is a sad one. I feel for him. Mr. Manafort committed crimes before he was in the Trump Circle.
I hope Pres. Trump will pardon Gen. Flynn. The rest of them not at all.
JMO
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2019 12:26:39 PM (No. 79120)
Cohen has to be the biggest fool possible. He hires Lanny Davis, who hung him out over the fire to roast, all in an effort to get Trump. And what Cohen ended with is himself in jail, hated by right, and used by the left, who now are ready to throw him away as trash, nothing more to be gotten from him. So rot, Mr. Cohen, you earned lash you get.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2019 12:29:06 PM (No. 79128)
Like Martha Stewart, this is exactly what I expected. And I don´t really object for this class of miscreant.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena 5/6/2019 2:38:56 PM (No. 79122)
Cohen is a fool. All of his "cooperation" (meaning his turning on Trump) got him nothing.
He is going to prison with no hope of a pardon and a Federal sentence, meaning he has to serve at least 85% before becoming eligible for release. I have no problem with him being in minimum security. He is a non-violent offender. Being locked up, even in a "cushy" prison (if such a thing exists) is enough punishment.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2019 6:35:59 PM (No. 79135)
Those who mistakenly believe Cohen went to prison for only paying off Stormy Daniels should read the charges to which he plead guilty. That entire plea deal, as accepted by the court, is here in pdf:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/read-michael-cohen-plea-deal/index.html
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
XCenturion 5/6/2019 7:38:22 PM (No. 79129)
Rumor is they don´t like "rats" in prison.
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He sure set a record of the long walk to prison and never shuts up. He and AOC make a good pair.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/7/2019 3:57:11 AM (No. 79124)
He was still yammering about getting POTUS when he got in the SUV taking him to the slammer..Mush for brains....
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