Posted on 07/09/20
| News Source: CNBC
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on the heels of a newspaper photo showing him eating at a Manhattan restaurant weeks after being released from prison into home confinement.
Cohen was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal jail.
His attorney, Jeffrey Levine, said that his detention could be connected to a photo of him that appeared on the front page of The New York Post eating outside of his Manhattan residence, where he was supposed to be under home confinment for the remainder of a three-year criminal sentence.
Cohen was recently released from prison due to concerns he could catch the coronavirus.
His lawyer also said that before Cohen was taken into custody, authorities told him he failed to agree to monitoring agreement, and will be transferred to a secure institution. Read more at CNBC