Released from prison but still serving his three-year sentence, Michael Cohen might have broken his home confinement by dining out Thursday night, according to the New York Post.
The Post's photos show Cohen, the former lawyer for President Donald Trump, at the Le Bilboquet, a French restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
A Manhattan defense attorney told the Post the dining out might have violated his coronavirus furlough, saying it was "something that I've never seen before" and adding it was common sense . . . he shouldn't be dining at restaurants."
"It's a privilege to be furloughed as a result of the coronavirus," the lawyer told the Post. "His furlough should be revisited by the warden and it should be revoked."
Cohen, 53, was sentenced to three years for tax evasion, bank fraud, and lying to Congress in his public hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
He was released to home confinement May 20 amid the global coronavirus pandemic that led the Bureau of Prisons to reduce prison crowding by letting out nonviolent offenders.
Cohen's lawyer Jeffrey Levine defended his clients dining actions, saying Cohen "is currently on furlough" and he "did not violate any of the terms and conditions of his release . . . and any assertion or suggestion to the contrary would be wholly inaccurate and untrue," per the report.
A former BOP official and Brooklyn warden, Cameron Lindsay, told the Post the Cohen's dining out "doesn't look right."
"I find it unusual that he's out to dinner," Lindsay told the paper. "I don't know that I ever remember furloughs being approved for social reasons."
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