Cohen is mostly notable not because he was initially eligible for the general COVID-19 release to home confinement that the DOJ has set up, but because DOJ tried to unconstitutionally craft his conditions of release in a way to squelch his first amendment rights when they found out he was planning on releasing a book that would be embarrassing to the President.
I think GP was mixing it up with the President's chief Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort, who was serving his 7.5 year sentence in prison and moved to home confinement for covid 19.
I did mean Cohen, not Manafort (Cohen was Trumps lawyer, Manafort his campaign manager) -- The GGP said "How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?" and having recently seen an article about Michael Cohen being out of jail on furlough due to C19 (linked in my original post) I posted the link; from TFA:
"Cohen was released to furlough in late May as part of a release program undertaken by the Bureau of Prisons to address the coronavirus pandemic."
However, as dragonwriter points out, turns out Cohen 1) was writing a book possibly damaging to Trump and 2) had been out at restaurants in NYC possibly in violation of his furlough; again from TFA:
"A photographer from the New York Post captured Cohen dining at a restaurant near his apartment with his wife and another couple in early July. Cohen said that didn't violate the terms of his release."
The controversial part is that the DoJ put him back in jail, but it seems it might have been to prevent him from completing his book (and the ACLU successfully sued to get him released again).
This is the link I should have posted regarding his original release in May due to C19:
