Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, sentenced to three years in prison
NEW YORK - Michael Cohen, who long swaggered as Donald Trump's bare-knuckled fixer only to see himself vilified by the president for cooperating with law enforcement, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after telling a federal judge that he had acted illegally out of "blind loyalty" to Trump.
Standing before a packed courtroom in lower Manhattan, the 52-year-old lawyer and businessman called his years as Trump's factotum a time of "personal and mental incarceration," saying that "time and time again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds."
In his tearful speech, Cohen asked forgiveness from his family and the country.
"Most of all, I want to apologize to the people of the United States - you deserve to know the truth," he choked out.
