BREAKING: Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion attempt against Nike [Update 2.5 year sentence]
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Talk about over playing your hand. 
Told y'all this nigga was a clown.
Told y'all this nigga was a clown.
Michael Avenatti is found GUILTY on all counts in Nike extortion case
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who gained fame by representing porn star Stormy Daniels against President Trump, has been convicted of trying to extort Nike for $25million.
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Michael Avenatti has been found guilty on all counts in Nike extortion trial | CNN
Michael Avenatti is guilty on all three counts he was facing, according to a decision by a jury in federal court in New York on Friday.
Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion case
A U.S. jury on Friday found Michael Avenatti guilty in a criminal trial accusing the celebrity lawyer of trying to extort Nike Inc out of millions of dollars and defraud a youth basketball coach he represented.
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Lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty of trying to extort Nike
Avenatti, who was all but unknown until he began representing Stormy Daniels, could face more than 40 years in prison
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion trial
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer convicted of trying to extort Nike, gained notoriety in legal disputes with President Donald Trump for his client, porn star Stormy Daniels.
no doubt about it, he was a fuckin dick.. that got caught up in
his own shananigans.. and also for being a fuckin snitch..
tellin on bruhs gettiin some side change from nike..
but for him to be locked up facing damn near five hundred years..
just for going at corporations..
and trump who is actually accused of raping a fuckin minor.. is still slithering around calling shots.....
damn shame we cant see these two snakes go at each other...
that wouldve been the most entertaining presidential debate ever..
they wouldve got real fuckin dirty...
his own shananigans.. and also for being a fuckin snitch..
tellin on bruhs gettiin some side change from nike..
but for him to be locked up facing damn near five hundred years..
just for going at corporations..
and trump who is actually accused of raping a fuckin minor.. is still slithering around calling shots.....
damn shame we cant see these two snakes go at each other...
that wouldve been the most entertaining presidential debate ever..
they wouldve got real fuckin dirty...
fuck dat cracker
Damn, they executed another person that crossed Pres. Trump
Now is not the time to be playing with lawsuits against the president, Supreme Court justices are being murdered, politicians are being shot in the head, now is not the time to be playing around. It is about survival and possible escape.
Now is not the time to be playing with lawsuits against the president, Supreme Court justices are being murdered, politicians are being shot in the head, now is not the time to be playing around. It is about survival and possible escape.
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Stormy Daniels slams Michael Avenatti after conviction in Nike case
Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer who gained fame by representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump, faces more than 40 years in prison.
The game of thrones continues...
Stormy Daniels calls Michael Avenatti a 'monster'
Stormy Daniels says she figured out Michael Avenatti was a 'monster' while he represented her against President Donald Trump and admitted to celebrating his extortion conviction last week.
Rats? His ol' master splinter rat ass with his brethren.
Complexion for the protection.Only 2.5 years for attempting to extort 25 million
Only 2.5 years for attempting to extort 25 million
If you're really curious, go read these two articles:
Michael Avenatti Seeks Light Prison Sentence Because His 'Epic Fall and Public Shaming' Are Punishment Enough
Attorneys for one-time anti-Trump #Resistance heartthrob Michael Avenatti say he should spend a maximum of six months in prison for attempting to shakedown Nike in the spring of 2019.
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Feds Seek 'Very Substantial' Prison Term for Disgraced Lawyer Michael Avenatti
Scoffing at the one-time celebrity lawyer's claim that his "epic fall and public shaming" should be taken into account at sentencing, federal prosecutors urged a judge to deal Michael Avenatti a "very substantial" prison sentence for attempting to extort Nike out of millions of dollars by...
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Trump won
He always wins.
He likely will be but that is a separate proceeding conducted by whatever states he is admitted to.
NEW YORK -- Michael Avenatti, the California lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity.
Avenatti, 50, was convicted last year of charges including attempted extortion and honest services fraud in connection with his representation of a Los Angeles youth basketball league organizer who was upset that Nike had ended its league sponsorship.
U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe called Avenatti's conduct "outrageous,'' saying he "hijacked his client's claims, and he used those claims to further his own agenda, which was to extort millions of dollars from Nike for himself.''
Avenatti, the judge added, "had become drunk on the power of his platform, or what he perceived the power of his platform to be. He had become someone who operated as if the laws and the rules that applied to everyone else didn't apply to him.''
Before the judge spoke, Avenatti delivered emotional remarks, sometimes through tears.
"Your honor, I've learned that all the fame, notoriety and money in the world is meaningless," he said. "TV and Twitter, your honor, mean nothing."
He ended his statement by saying what he expects of his three children, including two teenage daughters who wrote letters to the judge.
"Every father wants their children to be proud of them," Avenatti said. "I want mine to be ashamed. Because if they are ashamed, it means their moral compass is exactly where it should be.''
As he left the courthouse in the rain with his attorney, he stopped briefly before a set of microphones while his lawyer, Danya Perry, told reporters, "A new Michael Avenatti is deeply humbled as a result of this experience.''
The judge agreed, noting that Avenatti had not shown contrition or accepted responsibility for his crimes until Thursday, when he expressed "what I believe to be sincere remorse.''
Gardephe said some leniency was deserved because prosecutors declined to charge Mark Geragos, a prominent attorney who played a critical role in the scheme. Geragos first reached out to a Nike contact and remained silent at meetings and on phone calls as he and Avenatti shared a "good cop, bad cop routine.''
The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment to Geragos.
The judge also said conditions were "terrible'' at the Manhattan federal lockup where Avenatti spent 100 days behind bars last year, mostly in solitary confinement. He said it was hard to believe such conditions would occur in the U.S.
Criminal fraud charges on two coasts disrupted Avenatti's rapid ascent to fame. He also faces the start of a fraud trial next week in the Los Angeles area, a second California criminal trial later this year and a separate trial next year in Manhattan, where he is charged with cheating Daniels, an adult film actor, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Perry told the judge that recordings of Avenatti's profanity-laced threats to Nike lawyers made her "skin crawl,'' but she said she also felt mean-spirited backlash from people who expressed hated toward her client.
In a victim impact statement, Nike's lawyers said Avenatti did considerable harm to the company by falsely trying to link it to a scandal in which bribes were paid to the families of NBA-bound college basketball players to steer them to powerhouse programs. An employee of Adidas, a Nike competitor, was convicted in that prosecution.
The lawyers said Avenatti threatened to do billions of dollars of damage to Nike and then falsely tweeted that criminal conduct at Nike reached the "highest levels.''
Avenatti's former client, Gary Franklin Jr., said in a statement submitted by prosecutors that Avenatti's action had "devastated me financially, professionally, and emotionally.''
Franklin and representatives of Nike attended the sentencing. An attorney for Franklin released a statement saying that his client was grateful to the court for "honoring the very painful experience he went through at the hands of Michael Avenatti.''
Michael Avenatti sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in Nike extortion case (espn.com)
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Avenatti, 50, was convicted last year of charges including attempted extortion and honest services fraud in connection with his representation of a Los Angeles youth basketball league organizer who was upset that Nike had ended its league sponsorship.
U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe called Avenatti's conduct "outrageous,'' saying he "hijacked his client's claims, and he used those claims to further his own agenda, which was to extort millions of dollars from Nike for himself.''
Avenatti, the judge added, "had become drunk on the power of his platform, or what he perceived the power of his platform to be. He had become someone who operated as if the laws and the rules that applied to everyone else didn't apply to him.''
Before the judge spoke, Avenatti delivered emotional remarks, sometimes through tears.
"Your honor, I've learned that all the fame, notoriety and money in the world is meaningless," he said. "TV and Twitter, your honor, mean nothing."
He ended his statement by saying what he expects of his three children, including two teenage daughters who wrote letters to the judge.
"Every father wants their children to be proud of them," Avenatti said. "I want mine to be ashamed. Because if they are ashamed, it means their moral compass is exactly where it should be.''
As he left the courthouse in the rain with his attorney, he stopped briefly before a set of microphones while his lawyer, Danya Perry, told reporters, "A new Michael Avenatti is deeply humbled as a result of this experience.''
The judge agreed, noting that Avenatti had not shown contrition or accepted responsibility for his crimes until Thursday, when he expressed "what I believe to be sincere remorse.''
Gardephe said some leniency was deserved because prosecutors declined to charge Mark Geragos, a prominent attorney who played a critical role in the scheme. Geragos first reached out to a Nike contact and remained silent at meetings and on phone calls as he and Avenatti shared a "good cop, bad cop routine.''
The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment to Geragos.
The judge also said conditions were "terrible'' at the Manhattan federal lockup where Avenatti spent 100 days behind bars last year, mostly in solitary confinement. He said it was hard to believe such conditions would occur in the U.S.
Criminal fraud charges on two coasts disrupted Avenatti's rapid ascent to fame. He also faces the start of a fraud trial next week in the Los Angeles area, a second California criminal trial later this year and a separate trial next year in Manhattan, where he is charged with cheating Daniels, an adult film actor, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky told Gardephe that Avenatti deserved "substantial imprisonment'' because he used his client "as a way to get himself rich.'' Defense lawyers sought a six-month prison term followed by a year of home detention.
Perry told the judge that recordings of Avenatti's profanity-laced threats to Nike lawyers made her "skin crawl,'' but she said she also felt mean-spirited backlash from people who expressed hated toward her client.
In a victim impact statement, Nike's lawyers said Avenatti did considerable harm to the company by falsely trying to link it to a scandal in which bribes were paid to the families of NBA-bound college basketball players to steer them to powerhouse programs. An employee of Adidas, a Nike competitor, was convicted in that prosecution.
The lawyers said Avenatti threatened to do billions of dollars of damage to Nike and then falsely tweeted that criminal conduct at Nike reached the "highest levels.''
Avenatti's former client, Gary Franklin Jr., said in a statement submitted by prosecutors that Avenatti's action had "devastated me financially, professionally, and emotionally.''
Franklin and representatives of Nike attended the sentencing. An attorney for Franklin released a statement saying that his client was grateful to the court for "honoring the very painful experience he went through at the hands of Michael Avenatti.''
Michael Avenatti sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in Nike extortion case (espn.com)
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This shit is better than TV.
BREAKING: Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion attempt against Nike [Update 2.5 year sentence]
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/michael-avenatti-to-be-charged-with-wire-and-bank-fraud.html Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti has been arrested on charges related to an alleged $20 million extortion of the athletic apparel company Nike, federal authorities said Monday. A press conference is...
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Hasn’t he been in prison all this time?
Judge Drops Bombshell, Declares Mistrial for Fraudster Avenatti
A federal judge in California has granted disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti a mistrial in a case accusing him of siphoning millions from his own clients.
On Tuesday, Judge James V. Selna ruled that federal prosecutors in Santa Ana failed to turn over evidence to Avenatti before his wire fraud trial—including data from a law firm bookkeeping software program called Tabs, or Tax and Bookkeeping Solutions.
Selna set a new trial date for Oct. 12, along with a pretrial conference for Sept. 2, according to Meghann Cuniff, a local reporter live-tweeting Avenatti’s second of four criminal trials.
Outside the courthouse, Avenatti told a gaggle of reporters: “Today is a great day for the rule of law in the United States of America.”
Avenatti is accused of embezzling settlement funds from five clients, including Geoffrey Johnson, a paraplegic man who’d suffered an injury in a Los Angeles County jail, as well as beauty vlogger Michelle Phan and her associate Long Tran.
The mistrial breaks the government’s momentum in its criminal cases against Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who was fighting former President Donald Trump in 2018 over a hush money agreement.
On July 8, Avenatti was sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars after a New York federal jury convicted him of hatching a plot to extort millions from Nike.
Inside Michael Avenatti’s Wild Self-Defense on Embezzlement Charges
Weeks later, the first leg of his California trial began. “This case is about math,” Avenatti told jurors during opening statements. “This case is about how you calculate what a client is due after their settlement is received.”
This math-centered defense gave him the boost he needed for a new trial.
According to Avenatti’s Aug. 15 motion for a mistrial, his former office manager Judy Regnier testified that his former firm Eagan Avenatti used two different programs—QuickBooks and Tabs—to calculate how much money a client is owed.
The filing states that before trial, Avenatti requested access to the Tabs data, which the government never produced. Avenatti also claims that prosecutors provided one version of QuickBooks data “although it is unclear where it came from or whether it was even the most-recent version kept by the law firm.”
Avenatti, who represented himself at trial, requested the court dismiss the indictment or declare a mistrial. “The government suppressed this material information and failed to produce it for years despite its obvious importance and their clear obligation to do so,” Avenatti’s motion states. “As of this filing, their failures continue.”
In response, prosecutors claimed that Avenatti “now claims the Tabs data is critical for his defense” but “never once in numerous filings over two years mentioned Tabs data even after the government specifically identified it in a prior filing.” Instead, they claim, Avenatti had only sought “unfettered access” to his law firm’s servers.
Avenatti’s “motion makes clear, however, that the first time [Avenatti] ever asked specifically for Tabs data was on August 12, 2021,” prosecutors added.
On Aug. 19, Avenatti replied to the government’s opposition, saying that his defense has suffered “without access to these exculpatory materials.”
“Without knowing the precise calculations contained in both the Tabs and the QuickBooks data, it is impossible to know the costs, fees, expenses and other hourly work performed in connection with each of the alleged victims,” Avenatti wrote in the filing.
The next day, Selna ordered the Department of Justice’s privilege review team to allow Avenatti to search for financial data on the Eagan Avenatti servers.
On Monday, the defense provided Selna with a preliminary report on the Tabs data and alleged some of it was missing. “There are additional files that have yet to be produced,” Avenatti stated in a court filing. “It is presently unclear as to when the remaining Tabs data will be provided to the defendant.”
Avenatti claimed the Tabs data revealed “numerous payments made for the benefit of at least two of the clients mentioned in the indictment shortly after settlements were received and yet the government nor its expert ever accounted for these payments.”
At a hearing on Tuesday, Selna pointed to Regnier’s 2019 interviews which reference Tabs and said the feds were “fully on notice about the significance” of the data.
Selna told the courtroom that he found no intentional misconduct on the part of prosecutors or the privilege review team in withholding materials from Avenatti but that there were “shortcomings” in the discovery review process.
“I find that prejudice occurred here in a number of ways,” Selna concluded
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A federal judge in California has granted disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti a mistrial in a case accusing him of siphoning millions from his own clients.
On Tuesday, Judge James V. Selna ruled that federal prosecutors in Santa Ana failed to turn over evidence to Avenatti before his wire fraud trial—including data from a law firm bookkeeping software program called Tabs, or Tax and Bookkeeping Solutions.
Selna set a new trial date for Oct. 12, along with a pretrial conference for Sept. 2, according to Meghann Cuniff, a local reporter live-tweeting Avenatti’s second of four criminal trials.
Outside the courthouse, Avenatti told a gaggle of reporters: “Today is a great day for the rule of law in the United States of America.”
Avenatti is accused of embezzling settlement funds from five clients, including Geoffrey Johnson, a paraplegic man who’d suffered an injury in a Los Angeles County jail, as well as beauty vlogger Michelle Phan and her associate Long Tran.
The mistrial breaks the government’s momentum in its criminal cases against Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who was fighting former President Donald Trump in 2018 over a hush money agreement.
On July 8, Avenatti was sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars after a New York federal jury convicted him of hatching a plot to extort millions from Nike.
Inside Michael Avenatti’s Wild Self-Defense on Embezzlement Charges
Weeks later, the first leg of his California trial began. “This case is about math,” Avenatti told jurors during opening statements. “This case is about how you calculate what a client is due after their settlement is received.”
This math-centered defense gave him the boost he needed for a new trial.
According to Avenatti’s Aug. 15 motion for a mistrial, his former office manager Judy Regnier testified that his former firm Eagan Avenatti used two different programs—QuickBooks and Tabs—to calculate how much money a client is owed.
The filing states that before trial, Avenatti requested access to the Tabs data, which the government never produced. Avenatti also claims that prosecutors provided one version of QuickBooks data “although it is unclear where it came from or whether it was even the most-recent version kept by the law firm.”
Avenatti, who represented himself at trial, requested the court dismiss the indictment or declare a mistrial. “The government suppressed this material information and failed to produce it for years despite its obvious importance and their clear obligation to do so,” Avenatti’s motion states. “As of this filing, their failures continue.”
In response, prosecutors claimed that Avenatti “now claims the Tabs data is critical for his defense” but “never once in numerous filings over two years mentioned Tabs data even after the government specifically identified it in a prior filing.” Instead, they claim, Avenatti had only sought “unfettered access” to his law firm’s servers.
Avenatti’s “motion makes clear, however, that the first time [Avenatti] ever asked specifically for Tabs data was on August 12, 2021,” prosecutors added.
On Aug. 19, Avenatti replied to the government’s opposition, saying that his defense has suffered “without access to these exculpatory materials.”
“Without knowing the precise calculations contained in both the Tabs and the QuickBooks data, it is impossible to know the costs, fees, expenses and other hourly work performed in connection with each of the alleged victims,” Avenatti wrote in the filing.
The next day, Selna ordered the Department of Justice’s privilege review team to allow Avenatti to search for financial data on the Eagan Avenatti servers.
On Monday, the defense provided Selna with a preliminary report on the Tabs data and alleged some of it was missing. “There are additional files that have yet to be produced,” Avenatti stated in a court filing. “It is presently unclear as to when the remaining Tabs data will be provided to the defendant.”
Avenatti claimed the Tabs data revealed “numerous payments made for the benefit of at least two of the clients mentioned in the indictment shortly after settlements were received and yet the government nor its expert ever accounted for these payments.”
At a hearing on Tuesday, Selna pointed to Regnier’s 2019 interviews which reference Tabs and said the feds were “fully on notice about the significance” of the data.
Selna told the courtroom that he found no intentional misconduct on the part of prosecutors or the privilege review team in withholding materials from Avenatti but that there were “shortcomings” in the discovery review process.
“I find that prejudice occurred here in a number of ways,” Selna concluded
Judge Drops Bombshell, Declares Mistrial for Fraudster Avenatti
Spencer Platt/GettyA federal judge in California has granted disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti a mistrial in a case accusing him of siphoning millions from his own clients.On Tuesday, Judge James V. Selna ruled that federal prosecutors in Santa Ana failed to turn over evidence to Avenatti before...
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A Los Angeles jury rejected claims that Geragos engaged in fraud but found that he helped Michael Avenatti try and extort Nike.
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Jury rules against Geragos, judge slams desk over 'arbitrary' claim
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Celebrity Lawyer Mark Geragos to Pay $100,000 After Legal Malpractice Trial
A Los Angeles jury rejected claims that Geragos engaged in fraud but found that he helped Michael Avenatti try and extort Nike.
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Jury rules against Geragos, judge slams desk over 'arbitrary' claim
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