District Judge William Pauley on Tuesday turned down the request and gave Cohen a tongue-lashing for refusing to come to terms with the gravity of the tax fraud, campaign finance and false statement charges Cohen pleaded guilty to about a year and a half ago.

“Ten months into his prison term, it’s time that Cohen accept the consequences of his criminal convictions for serious crimes that had far reaching institutional harms,” Pauley wrote in a two-page order.

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 in separate cases brought by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and special counsel Robert Mueller's team.

One of the cases included run-of-the-mill tax evasion charges as well as more spectacular allegations that Cohen orchestrated illegal campaign contributions in 2016 by arranging payments of hush money to two women to suppress stories about alleged sexual affairs with Trump. The president has denied the affairs.

In the other case, Cohen admitted to making false statements to Congress in a bid to minimize Trump’s involvement in a real estate development project in Russia at the height of the 2016 campaign.

Trump dismissed Cohen’s admissions as lies designed to win favorable treatment from prosecutors.

“He's lying, very simply, to get a reduced sentence,” Trump said in November 2018.

In the new ruling, Pauley said only prosecutors can make a motion to shorten a sentence under the provision Cohen cited. The judge, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, also scoffed at Cohen’s suggestion that he’d been useful to investigators.

“Cohen made material and false statements in his post-sentencing proffer sessions,” Pauley wrote. “Unable to articulate how he advanced any investigation or prosecution, Cohen and his surrogates make extravagant allegations that the Department of Justice — from the Attorney General down to line prosecutors — acted in bad faith. Those ad hominem attacks lack any substance and do not trigger the right to a remedy or a hearing before this Court.”

Pauley also dismissed Cohen’s claim of virus-related danger as yet another effort to worm his way into the headlines.

“That Cohen would seek to single himself out for release to home confinement appears to be just another effort to inject himself into the news cycle,” the judge wrote.

Cohen is serving his sentence at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., about 70 miles north of Manhattan. He reported to prison in May 2019 and — with credit for “good time” — is scheduled for release in November 2021, according to the Bureau of Prisons.