Posted on 06/02/2022 8:41:14 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Former star lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal battles with then-president Donald Trump, on Thursday got 4 years in prison for stealing from her.
Avenatti was convicted in early February of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Daniels. He reportedly choked up in court during his sentencing.
During a two-week trial, prosecutors said the California lawyer spun a web of lies to cheat Daniels of nearly $300,000 she was owed for her autobiography, spending it on his firm’s payroll and personal expenses. Avenatti argued in closing arguments that he was acting in good faith, believing he was owed the money and never thinking it was wrong to take it.
The Daniels case was separate from a previous trial, where Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort Nike to the tune of $25 million. In July 2021, he was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison in that case.
Part of Avenatti's sentence in the Daniels case will run concurrently to the sentence in the Nike case.
Awwwwww, I was looking so forward to him being our President/s I bet there’s wailing and total disbelief over at CNN....I hope.
Good one!
I hope they throw him in with Ben Dover. Ben likes porn too.
He’s gonna be the Belle of the Ball.
Has she paid President Trump yet?
Oh, well. Hillary’s going to have to find another running mate. “Bribery, larceny, graft and more - vote for us in ‘24!” I wuz gonna be campaign chairman.
Not quite, only part of this runs concurrently.
If only POTUS Candidate H->! were treated in similar fashion.
Is that the $300K she owes Trump? The Trump curse strikes again.
Let’s see if I got this straight; steal $300,000 get 4 years, right? Extort $25 million and they give you 2 and a half years.
I see the trend. For a billion, time served; waste a few trillion tax payer dollars and you’re re-elected in a landslide
Not quite, only part of this runs concurrently.
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How does only part of a sentence run concurrently? I was confused by this statement in the article. A concurrent sentence starts the moment the Judge hands down the sentence. Avenatti was already serving a sentence for the NIKE scam. His new concurrent sentence runs at the same time as the NIKE sentence.
Perhaps he was convicted on separate counts and the Judge gave him consecutive time on one of those counts?
Onscreen receptacle.
Concurrent sentencing as a judicial scam enacted so that all parties in the court - judge, prosecutor, defense - can claim a win, much like a plea bargain.
Porn King of gen pop, Stormy Buchinsky, awaits.
Imagine, he was close to becoming a democratic presidential candidate.
Kind of the opposite of a participation trophy.
“guess he is not going to be running for president in 2024”
Why not? ;°>
Four years.
Beats the four years he was slated for. (by the Communists)
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