Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former longtime attorney and fixer, was set to begin serving a three-year prison sentence on Monday for crimes including campaign-finance violations during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
“There still remains much to be told and I look forward to the day that I can share the truth,” Cohen told reporters outside a New York City hotel before traveling to the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville, located roughly 70 miles outside of the Big Apple.
The 53-year-old took a dig at Trump, the man he fiercely defended for years, saying he hopes that after he is released that “the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our country.”
Monday capped off a rapid fall for the former attorney, who was once a top official at Trump’s private business and played a key role in the former real estate mogul’s entry to politics.
Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to Congress about his efforts to help build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 and breaking campaign-finance laws by facilitating hush-money payments to two women who accused Trump of having extramarital affairs with them.
Cohen said in federal court he made the payments “at the direction” of then-candidate Trump in order to silence former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
He also confessed to a slew of financial crimes that were unrelated to his work for Trump.
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