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« Reply #200 on: April 12, 2019, 06:46:21 PM »
This did not age well. 

Michael Avenatti Is Winning the 2020 Democratic Primary
He won’t be the nominee. But he’s setting the terms of the debate—and that could damage the rest of the field, and the country.
By BILL SCHER September 14, 2018
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/14/michael-avenatti-2020-democratic-primary-219910

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« Reply #201 on: April 12, 2019, 08:14:48 PM »
Will be funnier when Duke ends up banned from the NCAA tournament for five years, Nike gets fined millions of dollars and Michael Avenatti is completely and totally exonerated.

that's only one of the issues

there are a lot of other charges against him that appear to be much more serious

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-avenatti-indicted-fraud-theft-charges-20190411-story.html

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Re: Creepy Porn Lawyer
« Reply #202 on: April 12, 2019, 11:43:40 PM »
It would be funny if he winds up in the same prison as Cohen or Manafort



-Probably will....isn't there special prisons just for for white collar criminals?  ;)

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« Reply #204 on: April 22, 2019, 09:08:39 AM »
Holy smokes he is one corrupt mofo.

Michael Avenatti’s alleged embezzlement included payment from Heat’s Hassan Whiteside
By Des Bieler April 22, 2019

It turns out that both of Michael Avenatti’s court cases involve high-profile basketball players. Accused in one of trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, he claimed to have damaging information on Zion Williamson, among others. Thursday brought news that his other case includes allegations that he embezzled most of the money from a $2.75 million payment made by Heat center Hassan Whiteside.

The majority of that amount was meant for Alexis Gardner, a former girlfriend of Whiteside’s who hired Avenatti to represent her in a $3 million settlement of a potential lawsuit following the end of their romantic relationship. In a court filing earlier this month, California prosecutors claimed that the high-profile attorney lied to Gardner about receiving the money and used $2.5 million of it to pay for his share of a private jet.

The filing, which detailed Avenatti’s efforts to defraud five clients of millions of dollars over several years, referred to Whiteside and Gardner as, respectively, “Individual 1” and “Client 2.” In a joint statement provided Thursday to the Los Angeles Times, they said that it was “unfortunate that something that was meant to be kept private between us is now being publicly reported.”

“We entered into a mutually agreed upon settlement more than two years ago following the end of our relationship; a settlement that reflected Alexis’ investment of time and support over a number of years as Hassan pursued a career in the NBA,” Whiteside and Gardner said in their statement, which was released by Whiteside’s agent. “ … We have both moved on amicably and wish nothing but the best for each other.”

Avenatti, 48, denied to the L.A. Times that he had done anything improper, saying in an email, “No monies were ever embezzled from anyone and I look forward to all of the relevant documents and facts being presented at trial.”

He added that “the clients complaining are a very small fraction of the thousands of clients I have serviced over my nearly 20 year career.”

One former client, in particular, helped rocket Avenatti to fame as a prominent critic of President Trump. He was representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who wanted to nullify a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2016 to hide an affair she said she had with Trump several years previously, but she and Avenatti parted ways last month.

He used his representation of Daniels to gain visibility as a frequent guest on cable news shows, and even contemplated his own run for the presidency. Avenatti will now likely be more focused now on emerging unscathed from the charges filed against him by prosecutors based in California and New York, the latter of whom have accused him of trying to extort Nike.

[Michael Avenatti threatened to send Nike stock tumbling. So far, that’s not happening.]

Avenatti was said to have threatened the sports-apparel giant with holding a news conference on the eve of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last month, asserting that Nike had engaged in illicit attempts to direct top high school recruits to colleges partners. He wanted millions of dollars from Nike, prosecutors said, either to put him on its payroll or simply to buy his silence, but instead the company alerted the FBI.

Avenatti subsequently tweeted — before he made his account private on Thursday — that he “never intended to extort” Nike, but he went on to assert that it made payments to the families of Williamson, the Duke superstar expected to go No. 1 overall in this year’s NBA draft; Bol Bol, an Oregon player also expected to go high in the draft; and Deandre Ayton, last year’s No. 1 overall pick by the Phoenix Suns out of Arizona.

The January payment to Avenatti from Whiteside was meant to include approximately $1 million for the lawyer, plus expenses and other costs, as part of his agreed-upon share of the settlement, with Gardner set to receive a final payment of $250,000 on or around November 2020. However, according to prosecutors,Avenatti “falsely represented” to her that the formal arrangement called for Whiteside to make an initial lump-sum payment that would only cover his end, followed by 96 monthly payments to Gardner over the next eight years.

Rather than alert Gardner immediately to the money she had coming to her, as required by California law, Avenatti was accused of concealing his receipt of the $2.75 million and transferring almost all of it to an attorney trust account for another law firm and then on to the company selling the private jet. Avenatti allegedly transferred the remaining amount to an account he controlled and proceeded to make 11 payments to Gardner, totaling $194,000, between March 2017 and June 2018.

After he stopped making those payments, prosecutors said, Avenatti “falsely represented” to Gardner last month that Whiteside “was not complying with the settlement agreement,” and that she would “soon be receiving a payment” from the 29-year-old NBA player to make up for the monthly allotments.

Avenatti told the Times that Gardner received from him “far more than $194,000 and we will prove it at trial.” He added, “We paid living expenses and other expenses for a long period of time as well.”

In a 36-count indictment, California authorities alleged that Avenatti ran a similar scheme with other clients, including a paraplegic man whose $4 million settlement from Los Angeles County was diverted to the lawyer’s personal use, such as a racing-car team he owned. According to the Times, if convicted on all charges in both the California and New York cases, Avenatti would face a maximum of 382 years in prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/04/22/michael-avenattis-alleged-embezzlement-included-millions-heats-hassan-whiteside/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.899effa1546d

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« Reply #205 on: April 29, 2019, 05:19:31 PM »
Michael Avenatti Pleads Not Guilty to 36-Count Indictment

Michael Avenatti—who was indicted on 36 charges last month including fraud, tax dodging, and embezzlement—pleaded not guilty on Monday morning in Santa Ana, California. Just two weeks before the 48-year-old was charged in the 36-count indictment, federal prosecutors in New York and California also alleged that the one-time lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels attempted to extort millions of dollars from Nike, Inc., forced tax returns to defraud a bank, and stole from clients. Avenatti became a household name when he represented Daniels against President Trump, becoming a vocal critic of the president and even briefly floating a 2020 presidential run. “We don’t convict someone in America based on a one-sided argument and a press conference,” Avenatti wrote in a statement he posted on Twitter. “Even when he is one of the biggest enemies of the president and his son.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-on-anita-hill-i-take-responsibility-that-she-did-not-get-treated-well-during-clarence-thomas-hearings

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Re: Creepy Porn Lawyer
« Reply #206 on: April 29, 2019, 06:00:10 PM »
This guy is shameless. Hope he goes to jail for stealing his clients money. He had a job to do, to protect his clients, and failed miserably at it.

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« Reply #207 on: April 29, 2019, 08:34:59 PM »
Avenatti/Biden 2020

Creepy and Creepiest Making America Flinch Again!

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« Reply #208 on: May 22, 2019, 01:13:40 PM »
And the hits just keep on coming. 

Michael Avenatti indicted on charges of defrauding ex-client Stormy Daniels, identity theft
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

Feds charge Michael Avenatti with fraud, aggravated identity theft involving former client Stormy Daniels; Jacqui Heinrich reports from New York.

Embattled attorney Michael Avenatti was charged by federal prosecutors in New York Wednesday with defrauding adult-film star Stormy Daniels, the client who propelled Avenatti into the national spotlight.

Avenatti, 48, faces one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted of those charges. Daniels is not named in the indictment, but a federal law enforcement official confirmed to Fox News that she is the client prosecutors claimed Avenatti defrauded.

Avenatti rocketed to fame representing Daniels when she sued to be released from a non-disclosure agreement involving an alleged tryst with President Trump in 2006. He parlayed his notoriety into numerous cable news appearances and even was floated as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.

According to prosecutors, Avenatti stole "a significant portion" of an advance Daniels was supposed to receive from a book deal in the summer of 2018 by sending a doctored letter with Daniels' signature to her literary agent that instructed the agent to divert the money to an account controlled by Avenatti. The lawyer then spent the money -- $148,750 -- "on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance."

The indictment said that after Daniels asked Avenatti why she had not received the money, Avenatti falsely claimed he was still trying to extract the payment from the publisher. Weeks later, the lawyer allegedly "used funds recently received from another source" to pay Daniels the money she was owed.

Embattled attorney Michael Avenatti speaks to reporters after a pre-trial hearing in Santa Ana, Calif.

"Michael Avenatti abused and violated the core duty of an attorney – the duty to his client," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement. "As alleged, he used his position of trust to steal an advance on the client’s book deal.  As alleged, he blatantly lied to and stole from his client to maintain his extravagant lifestyle, including to pay for, among other things, a monthly car payment on a Ferrari.  Far from zealously representing his client, Avenatti, as alleged, instead engaged in outright deception and theft, victimizing rather than advocating for his client."

In an emailed statement to Fox News, Avenatti said: "I look forward to a jury hearing all of the evidence and passing judgment on my conduct. At no time was any money misappropriated or mishandled. I will be fully exonerated once the relevant emails, contracts, text messages, and documents are presented."

Avenatti also tweeted a defense of his conduct toward Daniels, writing: "No monies relating to Ms. Daniels were ever misappropriated or mishandled. She received millions of dollars worth of legal services and we spent huge sums in expenses. She directly paid only $100.00 for all that she received. I look forward to a jury hearing the evidence."

Prosecutors on Wednesday also formally indicted Avenatti on charges that he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to expose claims that the shoemaker paid off high school basketball players to steer them to Nike-sponsored colleges. Avenatti also has been facing a multi-count federal indictment in Los Angeles alleging that he stole millions of dollars from clients, didn't pay taxes, committed bank fraud and lied during bankruptcy proceedings.

Avenatti has denied the allegations against him on both coasts, saying he expects to be exonerated. The Los Angeles charges alone carry a potential penalty of more than 300 years in prison, while he could face over 60 years behind bars on the New York charges.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, initially raised concerns about Avenatti's conduct in November when she claimed he'd launched a fundraising effort to raise money for her legal case without telling her. She also said he had filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, on her behalf, against her wishes.

"For months I've asked Michael Avenatti to give me accounting information about the fund my supporters so generously donated to for my safety and legal defense. He has repeatedly ignored those requests," she said at the time. "Days ago I demanded again, repeatedly, that he tell me how the money was being spent and how much was left. Instead of answering me, without my permission or even my knowledge Michael launched another crowdfunding campaign to raise money on my behalf. I learned about it on Twitter."

At the time, Avenatti responded that he was still Daniels "biggest champion." He said that under his retention agreement, he was entitled to keep all the money he raised for her legal defense to defray what he said were substantial costs of her case.

According to investigators, Avenatti reached a multi-million dollar settlement deal with Hassan Whiteside, but only gave his client $194,000 and spent the rest on a private jet; reaction from former federal prosecutor Alex Little.

He repeated that statement on social media Wednesday, tweeting: "I look forward to a jury hearing all of the evidence and passing judgment on my conduct.  At no time was any money misappropriated or mishandled. I will be fully exonerated once the relevant emails, contracts, text messages, and documents are presented. I was entitled to any monies retained per my agreement with the client. My agreement for representation and compensation included a percentage of any book proceeds."

The defamation case initiated by Avenatti against Trump backfired, with a judge ordering her to pay the president's legal bills.

When Avenatti was first charged with defrauding other clients and extorting Nike in March, Daniels said she was "saddened but not shocked," adding on Twitter that she had fired Avenatti a month earlier after "discovering that he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly." At the time, she did not elaborate.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenatti-indicted-defrauding-stormy-daniels-identity-theft

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Re: Creepy Porn Lawyer
« Reply #209 on: May 22, 2019, 03:29:28 PM »
This guy has one of the largest superiority complexes I’ve ever seen. It’s crazy how fucked up he is.

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« Reply #210 on: May 22, 2019, 04:03:15 PM »
In Summary

THE CHARGES AGAINST AVENATTI
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10 counts of wire fraud

Avenatti allegedly committed wire fraud by lying to five clients about their settlements from cases he represented them in.

The total sum of the money he allegedly misappropriated is $12million.

He is accused of not only hiding their payments from them but spending the money himself on private planes, repaying the IRS and funding his own businesses between 2015 and 2017.

19 counts of tax fraud

Avenatti has not filed personal income tax returns since 2010, it is claimed.

Between 2015 and 2017, his coffee company Global Baristas US, did not pay $3.2million in federal payroll taxes.

More than $2million of that figure was withheld from staff pay checks and spent by Avenatti himself, it is alleged.

2 counts of bank fraud

The two bank fraud charges relate to the original indictment and claims he submitted bogus financial information to obtain three loans totaling $4.1 million from The People’s Bank in Mississippi. 

The bogus information included a tax return that had never been sent to the IRS and him overstating his law firm's resources when it was on the brink of bankruptcy.

One said his firm, Eagan Avenatti, had more than $500,000 in an operating account when it only had $43,000, it is claimed. 

4 counts bankruptcy fraud

Three of the bankruptcy fraud charges allege that Avenatti submitted, under penalty of perjury, monthly operating reports that failed to report all of the firm’s accounts receivable in 2017.

Avenatti is charged with falsely testifying under oath during a June 2017 bankruptcy hearing by denying the firm had received any fees related to a lawsuit when Eagan Avenatti had actually received more than $1.3 million

New York case 1

Conspiracy to commit extortion


Avenatti allegedly attempted to extort Nike by saying he had information which incriminated it in a pay-for-play college basketball scandal this year.

He allegedly told the company that he would conduct an internal investigation for a $25million fee instead of exposing it.

Nike reported him.   

New York case 2

Charged with misappropriating funds belonging to the ex adult film star Stormy Daniels to the tune of nearly $300,000.
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« Reply #211 on: May 22, 2019, 11:40:13 PM »
Before long there will be total and complete exoneration of this wide ranging witch hunt.

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« Reply #212 on: May 23, 2019, 04:42:40 AM »
Before long there will be total and complete exoneration of this wide ranging witch hunt.

:)

He is a disgusting POS

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-epic-fall-of-michael-avenatti


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« Reply #213 on: May 23, 2019, 07:03:54 AM »


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« Reply #214 on: May 23, 2019, 07:06:20 AM »
Hilarious that CNN propped him up as the "good" guy to challenge the President.
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« Reply #215 on: May 23, 2019, 10:29:35 AM »
Why was he treated so differently to Stone? Stone's home was raided by over a dozen paramilitary armed agents with CNN watching, yet Avenatti was arrested by 4 agents in a particularly quiet and discreet manner.

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That’s when four F.B.I. agents surrounded him. “Michael Avenatti?” one asked. “Yes,” he responded. “F.B.I.,” they told him. “You’re under arrest.” The agents pulled him aside to the entrance of a store. They took his briefcase and his cell phone before pulling a large trench coat around his shoulders so they could handcuff him discreetly. “I told them I appreciated the fact that I wasn’t treated like Roger Stone,” Avenatti told me, “and that CNN was not outside waiting for me.” One of the officers laughed. “I said of course that’s because hopefully I’ve shown your office and law enforcement a lot more respect over the last 14 months.” The agents managed to hustle him out of the mall without being noticed, a remarkable feat in the smartphone era and the year of Avenatti, and let him wait in a hidden alcove while the car that would take him to be booked pulled around.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-epic-fall-of-michael-avenatti

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« Reply #216 on: May 23, 2019, 11:09:41 AM »
Why was he treated so differently to Stone? Stone's home was raided by over a dozen paramilitary armed agents with CNN watching, yet Avenatti was arrested by 4 agents in a particularly quiet and discreet manner.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-epic-fall-of-michael-avenatti

Because he is a liberal garbage pail.

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« Reply #217 on: May 23, 2019, 01:37:44 PM »
Hilarious that CNN propped him up as the "good" guy to challenge the President.

And MSNBC.

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« Reply #218 on: May 23, 2019, 01:38:44 PM »
Why was he treated so differently to Stone? Stone's home was raided by over a dozen paramilitary armed agents with CNN watching, yet Avenatti was arrested by 4 agents in a particularly quiet and discreet manner.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-epic-fall-of-michael-avenatti

It would have been just as wrong if they used the same tactic with him, despite the fact he is a creep.  But I see your point.

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« Reply #219 on: May 23, 2019, 02:29:38 PM »
It would have been just as wrong if they used the same tactic with him, despite the fact he is a creep.  But I see your point.

Indeed and, yet all the time we hear that these operations are done “by the book”. Apparently there are several different “books” they go by.

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« Reply #220 on: May 23, 2019, 06:09:18 PM »
Indeed and, yet all the time we hear that these operations are done “by the book”. Apparently there are several different “books” they go by.

No doubt.

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« Reply #221 on: May 27, 2019, 11:24:16 PM »
Michael Avenatti's bad day: Disgraced lawyer to face not 1, but 2 arraignments
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

Avenatti became a household name thanks in no small part to his endless exposure on CNN and MSNBC; Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz reports.

Embattled attorney Michael Avenatti will have a busy day in Manhattan federal court Tuesday afternoon -- but as a defendant, not as counsel.

Avenatti, 49, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges that he stole nearly $300,000 from adult film actress Stormy Daniels, the client who rocketed him to national prominence. Approximately three-and-a-half hours later, Avenatti is scheduled to be arraigned on charges that he tried to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike by threatening to expose claims that the shoemaker paid off high school basketball players to steer them to Nike-sponsored colleges.

In the Nike case, Avenatti is charged with one count of extortion, one count of sending interstate communications with intent to extort and two counts of conspiracy. In the Stormy Daniels case, he is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted on all counts, Avenatti could face a total of 69 years in prison.

MICHAEL AVENATTI INDICTED ON CHARGES OF DEFRAUDING EX-CLIENT STORMY DANIELS, IDENTITY THEFT

Avenatti repeatedly has denied any wrongdoing and is expected to plead not guilty to all charges. He initially was arrested on March 25 at a New York law firm where he had scheduled a meeting with Nike executives.

Six days earlier, prosecutors said, Avenatti and a co-conspirator identified by several news outlets as celebrity attorney Mark Geragos met with attorneys for Nike on March 19 and "threatened to release damaging information" if the company did not agree to make multi-million dollar payments to them, as well as an additional $1.5 million payment to a California youth basketball coach Avenatti claimed to represent.

Lawyer charged with stealing $300,000 from Stormy Daniels.

According to the government, Avenatti threatened to hold a news conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings call and the start of the NCAA tournament to announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees, at one point telling Nike's lawyers he would "take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap... I'm not f---ing around."

MICHAEL AVENATTI ACCUSED OF TRYING TO EXTORT NIKE FOR UP TO $25M, FEDS SAY

Avenatti was indicted formally in the Nike matter this past Wednesday. That same day, prosecutors indicted him in the Daniels case, in which they claimed Avenatti stole two payments totaling $297,500 from an advance Daniels was supposed to receive from a book deal in the summer of 2018.

Court documents said Avenatti gave Daniels' literary agent a doctored letter with her signature directing the agent to divert the money to an account controlled by Avenatti. The lawyer then allegedly spent the money "on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance."

Feds charge Michael Avenatti with fraud, aggravated identity theft involving former client Stormy Daniels; Jacqui Heinrich reports from New York.

The indictment said that after Daniels asked Avenatti why she had not received the first payment, Avenatti falsely claimed he was still trying to extract the money from the publisher. Weeks later, the lawyer allegedly "used funds recently received from another source" to pay Daniels the amount she was owed -- $148,750.

MICHAEL AVENATTI PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN FEDERAL WIRE FRAUD, BANK FRAUD CASE

Soon after, prosecutors said Avennatti received another payment of $148,750 from Daniels' agent and used the money on personal expenses, including a lease payment on a Ferrari. When Daniels asked for the remaining money, Avenatti allegedly misled her to believe that the book's publisher was refusing to pay the amount to Daniels' literary agent.

Avenatti's legal issues have been daunting, but his troubles are not limited to New York.

In March, federal prosecutors in Southern California accused Avenatti of committing bank fraud and wire fraud by embezzling settlement money from five clients, including a paraplegic man, to pay personal expenses and debts — as well as those of his coffee business and law firm.

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According to U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna, Avenatti also obtained $4.1 million in loans from a Mississippi bank by using fraudulent tax returns stating he made more than $14 million between 2011 and 2013 and had paid more than $1 million in estimated taxes to the IRS in 2012 and 2013. In fact, investigators said, Avenatti owed the IRS $850,438 plus interest and penalties for the years 2009 and 2010, paid no personal income taxes for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and paid no estimated taxes in 2012 and 2013.

If convicted of all 36 counts in the California case, Avenatti faces up to 335 years in prison.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenattis-bad-day-disgraced-lawyer-to-face-not-1-but-2-arraignments

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« Reply #222 on: May 28, 2019, 03:06:58 AM »
Michael Avenatti's bad day: Disgraced lawyer to face not 1, but 2 arraignments
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

Avenatti became a household name thanks in no small part to his endless exposure on CNN and MSNBC; Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz reports.

Embattled attorney Michael Avenatti will have a busy day in Manhattan federal court Tuesday afternoon -- but as a defendant, not as counsel.

Avenatti, 49, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges that he stole nearly $300,000 from adult film actress Stormy Daniels, the client who rocketed him to national prominence. Approximately three-and-a-half hours later, Avenatti is scheduled to be arraigned on charges that he tried to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike by threatening to expose claims that the shoemaker paid off high school basketball players to steer them to Nike-sponsored colleges.

In the Nike case, Avenatti is charged with one count of extortion, one count of sending interstate communications with intent to extort and two counts of conspiracy. In the Stormy Daniels case, he is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted on all counts, Avenatti could face a total of 69 years in prison.

MICHAEL AVENATTI INDICTED ON CHARGES OF DEFRAUDING EX-CLIENT STORMY DANIELS, IDENTITY THEFT

Avenatti repeatedly has denied any wrongdoing and is expected to plead not guilty to all charges. He initially was arrested on March 25 at a New York law firm where he had scheduled a meeting with Nike executives.

Six days earlier, prosecutors said, Avenatti and a co-conspirator identified by several news outlets as celebrity attorney Mark Geragos met with attorneys for Nike on March 19 and "threatened to release damaging information" if the company did not agree to make multi-million dollar payments to them, as well as an additional $1.5 million payment to a California youth basketball coach Avenatti claimed to represent.

Lawyer charged with stealing $300,000 from Stormy Daniels.

According to the government, Avenatti threatened to hold a news conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings call and the start of the NCAA tournament to announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees, at one point telling Nike's lawyers he would "take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap... I'm not f---ing around."

MICHAEL AVENATTI ACCUSED OF TRYING TO EXTORT NIKE FOR UP TO $25M, FEDS SAY

Avenatti was indicted formally in the Nike matter this past Wednesday. That same day, prosecutors indicted him in the Daniels case, in which they claimed Avenatti stole two payments totaling $297,500 from an advance Daniels was supposed to receive from a book deal in the summer of 2018.

Court documents said Avenatti gave Daniels' literary agent a doctored letter with her signature directing the agent to divert the money to an account controlled by Avenatti. The lawyer then allegedly spent the money "on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance."

Feds charge Michael Avenatti with fraud, aggravated identity theft involving former client Stormy Daniels; Jacqui Heinrich reports from New York.

The indictment said that after Daniels asked Avenatti why she had not received the first payment, Avenatti falsely claimed he was still trying to extract the money from the publisher. Weeks later, the lawyer allegedly "used funds recently received from another source" to pay Daniels the amount she was owed -- $148,750.

MICHAEL AVENATTI PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN FEDERAL WIRE FRAUD, BANK FRAUD CASE

Soon after, prosecutors said Avennatti received another payment of $148,750 from Daniels' agent and used the money on personal expenses, including a lease payment on a Ferrari. When Daniels asked for the remaining money, Avenatti allegedly misled her to believe that the book's publisher was refusing to pay the amount to Daniels' literary agent.

Avenatti's legal issues have been daunting, but his troubles are not limited to New York.

In March, federal prosecutors in Southern California accused Avenatti of committing bank fraud and wire fraud by embezzling settlement money from five clients, including a paraplegic man, to pay personal expenses and debts — as well as those of his coffee business and law firm.

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According to U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna, Avenatti also obtained $4.1 million in loans from a Mississippi bank by using fraudulent tax returns stating he made more than $14 million between 2011 and 2013 and had paid more than $1 million in estimated taxes to the IRS in 2012 and 2013. In fact, investigators said, Avenatti owed the IRS $850,438 plus interest and penalties for the years 2009 and 2010, paid no personal income taxes for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and paid no estimated taxes in 2012 and 2013.

If convicted of all 36 counts in the California case, Avenatti faces up to 335 years in prison.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenattis-bad-day-disgraced-lawyer-to-face-not-1-but-2-arraignments


If he says he’s Black Queer & Leftist & Does a Deal With Kim Foxx
He’ll get off with a warning if that. !!

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I guess creepy guys need to stick together.

Biden rips off Avenatti with ‘let's make America America again’ slogan
By Alex Pappas | Fox News

Former Vice President Biden references Charlottesville and morality in speech to supporters in Iowa; reaction and analysis from 'Special Report' anchor Bret Baier.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was applauded Tuesday by Democrats in Iowa when he slammed President Trump with his own twist on the president’s famous campaign slogan.

“He says, ‘let's make America great again,’” Biden said of Trump in Ottumwa. “Let's make America America again.”

BIDEN ENDORSED BY MICHAEL AVENATTI AFTER LAUNCHING 2020 BID: 'HE HAS MY ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT'

Turns out, that’s not the first time voters have heard that line: Michael Avenatti, the anti-Trump lawyer who briefly promoted a possible Democratic presidential run of his own this year before being indicted on multiple charges, repeatedly used that same slogan in public remarks as he pushed back against Trump.

Avenatti on Tuesday tweeted, "Since I won't be using it, I’m happy @JoeBiden is using 'Let’s Make America America Again.' Because it's a damn good slogan and message."

Avenatti most recently used the line – in endorsing Biden for president in April.

“I am extremely happy that @JoeBiden has decided to enter the race,” Avenatti tweeted at the time. “He offers Dems the very best chance in 2020, especially in key states. He has the fight, intelligence and fortitude to beat Trump and begin to make America, America again. He has my enthusiastic support."

He also used the line during a 2018 BBC interview, prompting Newsweek to ask in a headline if the “make America America again” line would be Avenatti’s campaign slogan.

"I'm here to send a loud and clear message that there are millions of Americans that want to make America America again," Avenatti said last year in London.

Avenatti also tweeted the line in 2018, saying, “We must fight fire with fire and we must send a message that we will fight to make America America again.”

And Avenatti used it as the closing line in his speech at the Iowa Wing Day dinner in August 2018, saying, “above all else, we will make America America again.”

The Trump campaign on Tuesday mocked Biden over his use of the phrase. Both Trump and Biden are in Iowa Tuesday holding dueling political events.

“No word yet on whether Biden will start borrowing ‘Basta!’ as well,” Trump campaign deputy communications director Matt Wolking said Tuesday, referring to the hashtag Avenatti often used on Twitter.

Fox News has requested comment from the Biden campaign.

Biden last week faced criticism after it was revealed that his campaign lifted passages from numerous other sources in the initial version of its climate change plan. Citations were later added, with the campaign describing the initial version as a mistake.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-rips-off-avenatti-with-lets-make-america-america-again-slogan

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Paraplegic Ex-Client Sues Celebrity Attorney Michael Avenatti, Accusing Him of Keeping Settlement Money

A paraplegic man previously represented by Michael Avenatti has filed a lawsuit alleging the embattled lawyer failed to pay him millions he was due in a settlement with Los Angeles County. Geoffrey Johnson filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Avenatti and his former associates. It claims they neglected to pay him after the county cut a $4 million check in 2015 in a settlement over severe injuries he suffered in Sheriff's Department custody.

Johnson, who became paraplegic following a suicide attempt in jail where he said authorities failed to address his mental health needs and where he was assaulted, said Avenatti told him he would be paid once a trust had been established.

Instead, Avenatti began sending him monthly checks ranging from $900 to $1,900 to purportedly front him some money, said Daniel J. Callahan, Johnson's new lawyer. Johnson learned he was duped earlier this year when Avenatti was charged in federal court with bank and wire fraud, Callahan said.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Attorney-Michael-Avenatti-Paraplegic-Man-Lawsuit-Settlement-Los-Angeles-511254822.html