President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has been remanded back into the custody of federal authorities and will be sent back to jail, his lawyer Jeffrey Levine announced Thursday afternoon.
Cohen was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NBC News reported.
This comes after he was spotted dining with his wife and another couple last week at the Upper East Side restaurant Le Bilboquet -- Levine said on Thursday his detention may be connected to this outing, which was documented by the New York Post, which posted photos of the night out.
But Levine, defended Cohen's night out at the time, telling the New York Post, he "is currently on furlough" and that 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."
Cohen was released from an upstate New York jail because of coronavirus, and was allowed to serve out the rest of his three-year sentence at his Manhattan home.
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