Ex-Trump lawyer released from prison over deadly virus

Washington: Michael Cohen, U.S.

President Donald

Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, was released on Thursday from a federal prison into home confinement in New York amid concerns he could be exposed to COVID-19.

Cohen, 53, who once proclaimed he “would take a bullet for the president,” was sentenced in 2018 to a three-year federal prison term following guilty pleas to a number of financial and political crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress, said an NPR report. Video posted by NBC News showed Cohen walking into his New York apartment wearing a white shirt, a dark blazer, a ball cap and a white mask.