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NEW YORK - A contrite Michael Cohen on Wednesday received three years in prison for a series of tax fraud and lying charges, sending yet another former Donald Trump associate to jail.

Cohen's sentence is not as large as the four-plus years that federal prosecutors in New York wanted, but it nonetheless stands out as the biggest punishment to date tied to special counsel Robert Mueller's sprawling investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The sentence also puts a coda on the dramatic downfall for the 52-year-old longtime Trump lawyer who served in the president's inner circle as recently as this spring but turned on the man he declared he'd "take a bullet for" soon after FBI agents raided his home, office and hotel room.

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