Wow, helping his court cases?
This is kinda like Jose Canseco with roids in baseball. This piece of crap may be useful.
It seems Avenatti is constructing a defense that because Nike allegedly paid these athletes then he was allowed to extort Nike with impunity. Even if Nike paid the money, it does not get around the taped conversations during which Avenatti made the extortionate demands. I would be surprised if any federal judge even would allow that evidence to be admitted during cross examination or in the defense case (assuming there is one). The evidence of alleged payments by Nike is collateral to the extortion charge and the government would likely argue it would only confuse the jury. In essence, Avenatti wants to engage in jury nullification - that is, claim Nike is so bad it got what it deserved. Good luck, Mike, you’re going to need it.
This is it -an example of a lawyer who is so on noxious and horrible that he actually needs to be locked up