NEW YORK - Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, will be allowed to publish a book critical of the US president before the Nov 3 election while completing his criminal sentence at home, under an agreement filed on Thursday .
"There shall be no specific media provision" governing Cohen's activities, according to the agreement, which requires approval by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan. Federal authorities returned him to prison on July 9, one week after Cohen tweeted he was close to finishing his book, when Cohen questioned their new requirement that he agree to steer clear of media.
The judge gave both sides a week to negotiate a media provision that is"consistent with the First Amendment but yet serves the purposes of confinement."