President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison by a judge in New York on Wednesday. Cohen has pleaded guilty to felonies including tax evasion, and two campaign-finance violations. Last week, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Cohen had acted at Trump's direction in arranging two illegal hush-money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the president. Trump has said the payments weren't campaign-related and denied having affairs with the women, adult film actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal. The president has slammed Cohen for cooperating with prosecutors and accused him of trying to get a lighter prison sentence. Federal prosecutors had asked for a "substantial" prison term for Cohen, from guidelines calling for a sentence of as many as 63 months in jail.