Posted on 03/26/2019 12:41:32 AM PDT by knighthawk
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti suggested in a fiery statement to Fox News late Monday that the Los Angeles lawyers suing him for allegedly stealing from a former client's settlement fund -- a matter that prompted California prosecutors to slap Avenatti with federal criminal fraud charges on Monday -- have political motivations and are "close" to the Trump administration.
Although Avenatti's dramatic New York arrest for an alleged $25 million extortion scheme targeting sports apparel giant Nike dominated headlines on Monday, the separate federal wire and bank fraud charges that Avenatti simultaneously faces in Los Angeles may pose his greatest legal threat.
Avenatti is looking at up to 47 years in prison on the New York charges, and 50 years in the California case, which resulted from a much longer-running investigation involving a lengthier paper trail.
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Someone send this guy some soap on a rope.
He was on a secret mission to get evidence that would prove Trump is part of the Spirit Cooking cabal.
So Avenatti’s saying Trump colluded with the paraplegic client he stole $4 million from?
Alllll righty, then!
Sometimes life imitates Stormy
a pathetic psycho and con artist. Perfect for LA crowd.
I expected him to say something like this.
Companies like Nike have a dozen specialized five-star lawyers on retainer. Just to pick on Nike, you had to go and outline a certain method of suing them. Avenatti went to his normal method....threaten to go public. Before this is done....every penny or asset he has....will be gone. You can figure at least a year in prison will be the outcome.
So when is his next scheduled appearance on CNN...blaming all of his crimes on Trump?
I’m gonna guess 3-5.
I hope it’s true.
I hope Trump does whatever he has to and pulls whatever strings he has to and uses all of his friends, Rudy et. al., to take as many of his enemies down as he can.
And I don’t care how he does it.
Ha! From the LA Times article, if accurate, it sure sounds like he broke the law. He attempted to blackmail or extort Nike for a shakedown payment of $20 million by threatening to bring forth some unspecified allegation he said would be so embarrassing that it could knock $10 billion off Nike’s market cap.
Sorry, this is extortion. If you have a client with a grievance, that is not how you represent their interests. It would seem to me the man is very desperate. The proper way to do it is to get a client to write an affidavit of the allegations and prepare a lawsuit. Not to threaten exposure of the allegation if payoff isn’t made.
The other charge of stealing client money for personal and business expenses just adds to the sense of desperation.
Is there a connection to Trump? Who knows. But if Trump allies are starting to deliver payback now that Mueller is finished then starting at the bottom, removing these pieces off the board and getting them to roll on higher-ups is the way most prosecutions for conspiracies get played. He did his crime, now do the time or do less time and inform on some other political operatives.
Avenatti’s a nobody who knows nothing about anything nor has he worked for anybody in any administration. So, there’s no higher ups for him to rat out, is there? Unless, some political operatives funded his antics.
If Avenatti goes to prison, I doubt he will survive a year.
If convicted, he’d go off to a nicer fed prison, like the one that Blago (former governor of Illinois) went to. Maybe he’s got some kind of insider info that he negotiate on, and get half of the sentence dismissed. One thing is for sure....his license to practice is finished at this point. He’ll have to get into used cars or condo-sales.
He fancied himself a player, he dabbled with the idea of running for POTUS, he sued POTUS (and lost). All this suggests to me he has a few friends.
Remember how that college admissions scandal case developed. The FBI caught some insider trading guy, and in his effort to plea for a lighter sentence told them “I can lead you to a larger criminal conspiracy”.
I admit it is pure conjecture on my part. But it could be many things 1) a coincidence 2) Trump allies getting payback 3) Trump allies removing two pieces (Avanatti and CNN legal analyst Garagos off the chess board, thus weakening and demoralizing the opposition), or 4) the first rung in unwinding the large criminal conspiracy and like I said it is common to start those with the bottom rung. A) arrest a drug user and he informs on his dealer B) arrest his dealer and he informs on the supplier C) arrest the supplier and he informs on the distributor D) arrest the distributor and he informs on the major supply connection. It always starts by building a case from the bottom.
Regardless of all that, one thing is certain. Avenatti is definitely at the bottom of the barrel. Even if my conjecture is wrong, which it could be I admit, the guy plays too fast and loose with the law. The scheme as described in the LA Times article is a pure old-fashioned shakedown. IANAL, but even I know better. As alleged, it was attempted extortion. A lawyer should know better, that is just not how it is done. For sure, a lot of these lowlife lawyers are involved in a form of extortion but there is a “proper” way to do it: Get a sworn affidavit and prepare a lawsuit. You don’t go to the target and say “pay me or I will expose you”. A person who does that is a dirtbag extortionist.
And he was crowing about Trump ‘not serving out his term’??
How’s 20 years of bubba-showering look to you?
Even Uncle Beelzebub won’t get avenatti off this time.
“How’s 20 years of bubba-showering look to you?”
As was noted by a friend of my his motto went from:
“Avenatti for 2020”
to...
“Avenatti for 20 to 25”
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