Michae Cohen's wife, Laura Shusterman, was seen walking on the streets of New York City on the same day that her husband, President Trump's former lawyer, surrendered to federal authorities and began a three-year prison sentence in what is being billed as a 'Jewish heaven'.
Shusterman, 49, has two adult children with Cohen - Samantha and Jake.
She was last photographed on Friday after she and her husband ate lunch at an upscale Manhattan eatery.
Shusterman will be spending Monday evening without her husband, who reported to prison to begin serving his sentence in what is being billed as a Jewish-friendly facility.
Laura Shusterman (right) is seen in Manhattan on Monday after her husband, Michael Cohen, surrendered to authorities to begin his three-year prison term in upstate New York
Shusterman wore a blank expression as she returned to a building on Park Avenue
Last glimpse of freedom: Michael Cohen on the final stage of his journey to Otisville federal prison Monday, where he has started a three-year term
With a menu that includes matzo ball soup and gefilte fish, as well as a full-time rabbi and a chance at the occasional visit home, the prison where Cohen will spend the next three years is unique in the federal system.
Cohen reported to the Federal Correctional Institute in Otisville, New York, about 70 miles northwest of New York City, on Monday.
The 52-year-old Cohen will be housed in dorm-like accommodations at the facility's minimum-security camp, which prison consultants say has become a destination for Jewish inmates due to its proximity to New York City's Jewish and upstate New York's Orthodox Jewish enclaves.
'He's going to what I like to refer to as "Jewish heaven",' said Larry Levine, founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants, who served a 10-year prison sentence that ended in 2007 for racketeering and other crimes.
Cohen, who once said he would 'take a bullet' for Trump, was sentenced in December for orchestrating payments to pornographic film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Cohen said Trump directed the payments.
Trump, who has denied the affairs, said he never directed Cohen to do anything illegal.
Cohen received a three-year prison term for the payments and unrelated financial crimes.
At Cohen's sentencing hearing, his lawyer at the time, Guy Petrillo, asked that Cohen be sent to Otisville but did not give a reason for the request.
Petrillo could not be reached for comment on the choice of prison.
Jack Donson, a former manager at the prison who now runs a prison
