Jail time: Former Trump attorney sentenced to three years for lying to Congress and tax evasion

US president Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen arrives with daughter Samantha Blake Cohen and wife Laura Shusterman at US Federal Court in New York yesterday.

The lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison.

A New York judge said that Cohen deserved a harsh punishment for crimes including tax evasion, lying to Congress and arranging illegal payments to silence women who posed a risk to Mr Trump’s presidential campaign.

District Judge William H Pauley III rejected arguments by Cohen’s lawyers that he should be spared jail.