New York Post

Gourmand con Cohen in solitary

- Ben Feuerherd

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.

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