CNN: “After spending the past several weeks on New York’s tony Upper East Side, Michael Cohen has found himself back in federal prison after a dispute with the government over what his lawyers say were restrictions in paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book about the president.”
“The form in question, a two-page document titled ‘Federal Location Monitoring Program Participant Agreement,’ had called for Cohen to abstain from communicating with members of the media — a provision that he had balked at given the pending release of his tell-all book, and one which his legal team has claimed is unusual.”
“Defense attorneys and legal experts that CNN spoke with Friday said that the form appeared to be tailored to Cohen, the flamboyant former fixer to President Donald Trump, whose affinity for the press is well known. Some called it unfair.”
“‘I’ve never seen anything like that in my years of practice where a condition was put on a person like that,’ said Lance Lazzaro, whose client, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, drew more than 2 million people to a livestream on Instagram in May — a record for the app — weeks after he was released early under a similar arrangement from federal prison into home confinement amid the pandemic.”