Gourmand con Cohen in solitary
He’s gone from fine dining back to bologna sandwiches. President Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen (left), who was locked up again by the feds after a series of events triggered by him being photographed eating out in Manhattan, was transferred back to Otisville prison and is being held in a 14-day solitary confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic, his lawyer said Friday. Cohen was moved from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to the central New York prison after his arrest at the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday morning, according to Cohen’s attorney, Jeff Levine.
“Unbeknownst to me and his family, it happened last night,” Levine told The Post, adding that Cohen’s relatives are “devastated” by his incarceration.
Cohen was arrested Thursday after he refused to agree to one of the stipulations in the home-confinement agreement, which would have barred him from speaking to the press and blocked him from publishing a tell-all book that he’s been writing while behind bars in Otisville.
Levine said Friday he and Cohen were having a “dialogue” with probation officials about the terms of his home confinement when he was taken into custody for not agreeing to the first term.
His arrest comes after a photograph of Cohen dining out with his wife and another couple at a French restaurant on the Upper East Side was published on Page One of The Post. Cohen had been released from prison on furlough because of the coronavirus pandemic.