Posted on 12/25/2019 6:33:00 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Prosecutors say California attorney Michael Avenatti was over $15 million in debt when he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike, while Avenatti’s lawyers say the money he legally requested to conduct an internal probe of the sportswear giant was a bargain.
Both sides made the assertions in court papers filed late Tuesday in advance of a Jan. 22 criminal trial in Manhattan, giving U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe time to decide what the jury will be allowed to hear and see.
For Avenatti, it is the first of three scheduled trials in the next five months. He has denied all charges.
Criminal charges against him in other cases include allegations in New York that he defrauded ex-client porn star Stormy Daniels out of proceeds of a book deal and charges in Los Angeles that he defrauded clients of millions of dollars.
In their submission, federal prosecutors said they plan to show the jury that Avenatti owed “conservatively, in excess of $15 million.” Those debts were owed to former clients, one of more former law partners, both of his former spouses for child and spousal support in arrears and a lawyer the government has identified only as “Attorney-1,” they said.
Avenatti told The Associated Press on Wednesday that “any claim that I was $15 million in debt is ridiculous, absurd and laughable.”
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And he was going to be a dem front runner. What a pity
With 3 trials pending how is he going to have time to campaign?
Plus, come to think of it, he hasn’t been in any of the debates.
To think that this guy was one of MSNBC’s top analyst. Bwahahahahahaha
He had better wished for some Soap on a Rope for Christmas. He is going to need it.
Must be in even deeper debt now............wonder when he cashed his last paycheck?
Remember how much fun it was watching the bimbos of MSNBC fawning over the lowlife Avenatti ... Even the pretentious men of MSNBC were breathless of him...
Does it get any creepier?
Avenatti is scum.
If you look in a dictionary of slang under ”wheels fell off”, this guy’s picture is now there. I’m amazed that he apparently deluded himself into believing that none of this would ever surface.
Avenatti, the typical California Democrat Party supporting lawyer. Corrupt, crazy,, financially irresponsible, unethical and breathing.
“And he was going to be a dem front runner. What a pity”
Finding a Democrat Presidential Candidate is like trying to find a Tootsie Roll in a septic tank.
He needed the money. Well OK then. The desperation of poverty defense.
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