Biography
Stanley L. Cohen is an American radical defense attorney known for representing politically targeted clients including members of Hamas, Anonymous hackers (notably Jeremy Hammond), Mohawk activists at Akwesasne, anti-globalization protesters, and other dissidents whom mainstream firms refused. Long a critic of U.S. counterterrorism prosecutions and Israeli policy in Palestine, Cohen was the subject of a years-long IRS investigation widely viewed by supporters as retaliation for his defense work. In April 2014 he pleaded guilty to a single count of impeding the administration of the internal revenue laws and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. He entered USP Canaan in January 2015 and left prison on December 15, 2015 for a halfway house, followed by home confinement. Disbarred in New York during his incarceration, he later resumed activism and writing on political-prosecution and surveillance issues.
Physical-prison duration review October 13, 2026: Cohen's first-person account explicitly dates his prison departure December 15, 2015 and separately describes subsequent halfway-house and home-confinement periods. That prison endpoint is retained, not expanded to a later federal-custody discharge. The admission remains January 2015 at month precision; its placeholder cannot justify the legacy 348 exact days, which are cleared. Exact admission day remains unresolved.
Executed sentencing date review October 13, 2026: DOJ's contemporary announcement explicitly states Stanley L. Cohen was sentenced that day, November 21, 2014, to eighteen months with a concurrent twelve-month term. The missing sentencing day is added. January 6, 2015 in that announcement is an order to report, not confirmation of actual admission, so existing January month precision is preserved. The December 15, 2015 physical prison exit also remains distinct from later federal noncustody.
