A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday roundly rejected Michael Cohen’s months-long effort to reduce his three-year prison sentence for lying to Congress and other crimes, saying it was time for the former attorney and “fixer” to Donald Trump to “accept the consequences of his criminal convictions.”

In a two-page order, U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York criticized Cohen’s “ad hominem” attacks against Justice Department officials who denied his pleas for leniency in exchange for information he provided to investigators. And he called Cohen’s latest request to be released from a federal prison camp amid the growing coronavirus outbreak “just another effort to inject himself into the news cycle.”

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