BREAKING: Grand Jury charges @MichaelAvenatti with extortion and wire fraud in Nike case.— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 13, 2019
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written by Bronson Stocking
Wednesday November 13, 2019
On Wednesday, a grand jury charged disgraced pornstar lawyer Michael Avenatti with extortion and wire fraud. The revised indictment dropped a conspiracy charge against Avennati but added an additional count of wire fraud.
According to the indictment, Avenatti threatened to hold a damaging press conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings report and the start of the NCAA's men's college basketball tournament unless Nike agreed to pay Avenatti around $25 million in payments. Avenatti said he was representing a youth basketball coach who had evidence that Nike employees had concealed unauthorized payments to families of top high school basketball players. The U.S. Attorney's Office had recently opened a criminal investigation into a competitor of Nike's for similarly concealing payments to families of high school athletes.
A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against Michael Avenatti in the SDNY case in which he is charged with attempting to extort millions from Nike, per court filings. The superseder drops the conspiracy charges & adds 1 count of honest services wire fraud— erica orden (@eorden) November 13, 2019
Avenatti represented porn star Stormy Daniels who claims to have had an affair with President Trump. Daniels hired Avenatti to represent her in her defamation suit against the president. Daniels lost that suit and was ordered to pay the president's attorney fees. Avenatti also represented bogus Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick in her gang-rape allegation against the Supreme Court justice during his confirmation hearing.
This isn't the first time Avenatti has had legal troubles. As Matt Vespa has written, Avenatti was ordered by a judge to pay child support payments that he neglected to make. He also fell behind on rent payments, was evicted from his law offices and slapped with a multi-million dollar judgment from a former colleague. Last November, Avenatti was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic abuse, but the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office declined to prosecute.
The guy indicted from coast to coast telling me to “stop deceiving people” https://t.co/wjeb2eWfc0— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 14, 2019
👇 RELATED NEWS 👇
MICHAEL AVENATTI— BNO News (@BNONews) May 22, 2019
- Charged in 3 criminal cases
- If convicted, faces life in prison
- California case: up to 335 years
- Nike case: up to 47 years
- Stormy Daniels case: up to 22 years
- Avenatti says he's innocent
Michael Avenatti forged Stormy Daniels' signature. stole her book proceeds and used some of the money to pay for his Ferrari, feds say in new indictment. https://t.co/DKJ5vEsLfR via @thedailybeast— Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b) May 22, 2019
Some of Avenatti's purchases while not paying taxes, per @latimes: "217,000 at Neiman Marcus; $117,000 at Jewelers on Time, a luxury watch store; $277,236 to Porsche dealers; $100,000-a-month rent for a waterfront house on Lido Isle in Newport Beach" https://t.co/Y776uQO22w— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) March 27, 2019
CNN's Cuomo: Why would Julie Swetnick attend parties she said were known for gang rape?— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 27, 2018
Avenatti: You should believe her because she's the third Kavanaugh accuser so obviously there's a pattern here. pic.twitter.com/S1Qq4YBnFh
Remember that Senate Democrats literally tried to derail a Supreme Court nominee on the basis of claims made by Michael Avenatti. Shame on you, @SenFeinstein. Shame on every single one of you.— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 25, 2019
ICYMI: Here's @ananavarro last year comparing Michael Avenatti to the Holy Spirit https://t.co/andzWMQ6k5— Joe the Dissident (@joethepatriotic) May 22, 2019
CNN's Brian Stelter last year on Michael Avenatti running for president: "And looking ahead to 2020, one reason I’m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.” pic.twitter.com/2Wn2bX17kx— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 22, 2019
Congratulations to the national media for all your great work in elevating yet another serial fraudster, Michael Avenatti, for no reason other than he dished out constant anti-Trump red meat— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 22, 2019
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