SDNY Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain called Pauley "a great judge – wise, engaged, excited about his role in making sure that justice was served in every case – and a great friend and colleague" in a statement on Tuesday. In 2018 he sentenced Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, to three years in prison for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump's 2016 election campaign and for lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia. He presided over a string of high-profile cases: In 2013 he ruled that the National Security Agency could lawfully record millions of Americans' phone calls, a decision a federal appeals court later overturned, and in 2016 he picked a monitor to ensure Deutsche Bank AG reported swaps data properly. He joined the court in 1998, appointed by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat. Pauley died Tuesday morning "after a battle with an illness," Southern District of New York district court executive Edward Friedland said in an email. Pauley III, who oversaw two decades of Manhattan federal court fights including the criminal case against longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, has died.
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