New York Post

Joint java jolt for Cohen, Kanye

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COHEN’S got the wrong kind of bars for this collab.

Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen was seen getting coffee with Kanye West at Sant Ambroeus on the Upper East Side Thursday, despite still nominally being under house arrest stemming from his conviction for finance fraud, tax evasion and lying to Congress.

A Page Six spy caught the Kanye coffee klatsch on camera (inset). The last time Cohen was seen out and about, dining at ritzy French bistro Le Bilboquet (also on the UES; at least he’s consistent), his attorney, Jeffrey K. Levine, told us Cohen had obtained “special permission from the BOP [Bureau of Prisons] and

RRM [Residentia­l Reentry Management] to eat out.”

E-mails to Cohen’s attor- neys Friday night were not immediatel­y returned.

Cohen’s date with West marks the third time he’s been spotted violating his house arrest.

Cohen, 55, was sentenced to three years for his assorted misdeeds in Decem- ber 2018. He was released from prison in May 2020 due to concerns about COVID-19 and has been serving out the remainder of his sentence, which ends in November under supposed house arrest. But he also was spotted dining at Le Bilboquet in July 2020, as The Post exclusivel­y reported at the time.

As to what he could have been kvetching about with Kanye, we’re in the dark. (Oh, to be a fly on that wall.)

West, 44, has previously professed his admiration for Cohen’s former employer or maybe he’s holding explorator­y meetings about his supposed 2024 presidenti­al run, on which he remained undecided as of May.

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