Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Trump, will be released from prison early due to fears of coronavirus, according to Cohen’s lawyer and other sources familiar with the matter. 

Cohen was once a very dedicated ally and also a surrogate for the president leading up to the 2016 presidential election, he is currently serving three years in a New York federal prison after he was convicted of financial crimes, campaign finance violations and lying under oath to Congress.

Cohen will be spending 14 days quarantining at a prison camp before he is allowed to serve the remaining sentence, which ends in November 2021, from home. 

His release has not been finalized yet by the federal Bureau of Prisons, but Cohen’s lawyer, Roger Adler, has confirmed to the press that he was notified of the decision Thursday evening. 

In the last month, U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley rejected a request from Cohen’s attorney asking for an early release. Since then, 14 inmates and seven staff members at the prison complex where he’s serving time have been tested positive for the virus.

“Ten months into his prison term, it’s time that Cohen accepts the consequences of his criminal convictions for serious crimes that had far-reaching institutional harms,” Pauley wrote at the time in a March 23 ruling. 

Cohen is only one of the several political figures and celebrities to ask for an early release amid the coronavirus pandemic as the prisons have been described as ‘petri dish’ of infections. 

Michael Avenatti, the attorney at law who represented adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her litigation against President Trump, was actually granted a temporary release by a federal judge in California. Avenatti, who once floated himself as a potential presidential candidate, was convicted in February of attempting to extort up to $25 million from the athletic apparel titan Nike.