Free Again, Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Seeks Deal for Going on TV

Now that Michael Cohen is out of prison once again, the former lawyer to President Donald Trump has a week to negotiate terms of his remaining sentence in home detention, including making television appearances.

A federal judge ordered Cohen’s release Thursday after ruling the U.S. Justice Department had illegally returned him to prison in retaliation for his plans to write a tell-all book critical of Trump and to discuss it on social media. Cohen’s son picked him up Friday outside a medium-security federal lockup 75 miles from Manhattan, said his lawyer, Danya Perry.

Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to ...