Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison

Michael Cohen, former Donald Trump's personal attorney, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Manhattan court for a series of crimes committed during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

Judge William Pauley found Michael Cohen guilty of having bought on behalf of Donald Trump the silence of two women who claimed to have had an extramarital affair with the businessman.

Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty in August to these charges, said he acted at the request of Donald Trump who feared that such revelations would weaken his candidacy for the Republican nomination.

These payments of money constituted, according to the public prosecutor's office, infringements of the rules of financing of the electoral campaigns.