The child of a Holocaust survivor and a nurse will become one of just two close aides of the president jailed for a lengthy period of time after Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager who was sentenced to 7.5 years of prison.
After dramatic appeals and testimony in Congress, Donald Trump’s one-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen is due to report to jail Monday to serve a sentence he deems unjust because he was simply following his boss’s orders.
The father of two children in their twenties, Cohen had hoped until the last moment that his sentence would be reduced, offering information to investigators that could compromise Trump and his family, including over the Russia investigation. Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis said Friday that the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, should have gone to prison since he “signed hush money checks.”
In doing so, he would be following the example of Richard Nixon’s ex-lawyer John Dean, who pleaded guilty for having bought the silence of the Watergate scandal burglars, and then wrote a book about his experience.He is due to be held in the detention centre’s low-security “camp,” which holds detainees who are not considered to be dangerous, including many other white collar criminals.
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