Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, and self-proclaimed fixer is heading to jail. Today a Manhattan federal judge sentenced him to 36 months. This was after prosecutors requested four to five years.

Before the sentencing an emotional Cohen himself addressed the court saying: “I take full responsibility for each act that I pled guilty to. The personal ones to me and the ones involving the President of the United States of America.” He added his “weakness was a blind loyalty to Donald Trump.”

And this was his most damning statement about Trump:

“Recently the President tweeted a statement calling me weak and it was correct but for a much different reason than he was implying it was because time and again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.” 

Those who the courtroom said Cohen teared up as he said: “You deserve to know the truth and lying to you was unjust.” 

Attorneys for Cohen had argued their client shouldn’t get any prison time because of his extensive cooperation with the government. And while Donald Trump wasn’t in the courtroom, his name came up several times. Cohen’s attorney, Guy Petrillo, said, “He came forward to offer evidence against the most powerful person in our country.” And he also said his client had the “misfortune to have been counsel to the president.”

In their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors had written that they weren’t prepared to offer Cohen any sort of “cooperation agreement” saying his efforts “fell well short of cooperation.” Today in court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos, representing the Southern District of New York reiterated this saying, “The charges portray a pattern of deception, of brazenness and of greed.” And “in committing these crimes, Cohen has eroded faith in the electoral process.”

Mueller’s team had a slightly different take telling the court today that “Mr. Cohen has sought to tell us the truth.” Their statement before the judge was brief with Special Counsel prosecutor Jeannie S. Rhee reportedly saying, “There’s only so much we can say about the particulars at this time, given our ongoing investigation.” But in their sentencing memo, they also stated “The government does not take a position with respect to a particular sentence to be imposed but submits that it is appropriate for any sentence of incarceration to be served concurrently to any sentence imposed by the Court in United States v. Cohen.”