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Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen was briefly placed in — and then removed — from solitary confinement at an upstate federal prison where he is serving time for violating campaign finance laws following a scuffle with another inmate over phone usage, sources said.

Cohen, 53, was transferred on Wednesday to a Special Housing Unit at Otisville Federal prison to be disciplined, sources said.

But a source close to President Trump’s former personal attorney said Friday he was already sprung from what inmates call “the hill” — solitary confinement.

“FYI Michael is out from solitary,” the source told The Post.

A source previously told the Post that Cohen would fight SHU confinement, which “typically lasts for 30 days.”

Cohen’s family and lawyers complained they hadn’t been informed of what’s going on with him.

“Neither Michael’s family nor his attorneys have any information about his whereabouts at Otisville. Despite numerous attempts to speak with him by phone, Otisville has not returned any requests by either his family or attorneys for a phone call,” a spokesperson for Cohen said.

One of the sources said Cohen was placed in solitary after another inmate complained about his internet use.

“It is my understanding that a verbal dispute over phone use prompted a temporary placement to SHU pending an investigation. I do not, however, know who prompted the altercation, or if the action taken was factually/regulatory appropriate,” Cohen’s lawyer, Roger Adler, said in an email to Reuters.

Cohen, who once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for directing hush payments to pornographic film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed they had affairs with Trump. The president has denied having the encounters.

In March, Cohen argued that he should be released from prison early because of the coronavirus outbreak and the risk of contracting COVID-19.

But US. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan rebuffed the request in a scathing order.

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