A federal jury in Manhattan found lawyer Michael Avenatti guilty of cheating his former client, Stormy Daniels, out of nearly $300,000 on Friday.
The verdict came after about 15 hours of deliberation across three days. Avenatti faces up to 20 years in prison on a wire fraud charge and a mandatory sentence of two years on an aggravated identity theft charge.
He was ordered to surrender to authorities in California by 5 p.m. Monday.
Avenatti said he was “disappointed” in the verdict.
“I look forward to a full adjudication of all the issues,” he told Fox Business.
Federal prosecutors said Avenatti convinced Daniels’ literary agent to send him nearly $300,000 in publisher’s payments intended for her. Avenatti said Daniels, an adult film star born Stephanie Clifford, agreed to giving him part of her book advance in exchange for him representing her in a case involving allegations she had a sexual relationship with former President Donald Trump.
Avenatti represented himself during part of his trial, saying he and his original lawyers disagreed on how they would question a witness.
Last year, Avenatti was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his attempt to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
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Just remember, Michael Avenatti is / was a rock star according to the MSM Pravda stations, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS. The way the MSM slobbered all over Michael Avenatti, the MSM was spreading rabies. I wonder if Dr. Fauci, will require the MSM to wear masks, because of the rabies they (the MSM) are spreading. Hey Fauci, you should wear a mask permanently also, since you have a rabies problem when your mouth opens!
IF that had been YOU OR I, who got convicted, we wouldn’t have been merely told “Surrender yourself by monday at 6pm.. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN CUFFED THERE AND THEN, and drug off to prison.
HEY! Please don’t slander Pravda. They at least wear there politics on their sleeve. I have also read completely opposing views published by them. Our MSN would never do that except a little on FOX.
Plus with Pravda, if they DIDN’T push the leftist line that stalin, lennin and co, told them to push, they would have likely ended up in a ditch or a gulag….
Obviously well qualified in the self-blinded Main-Stream media to run for president in the Democrat party. As more flies on the wall get the courage to begin to speak out, maybe even Hunter will find his way to jail or a well-earned mental ward. Avanati’s fraud is indicative of the breadth and size of fraud that runs throughout the Democrat party of criminality. Those who sanction the stealing of cell phones and jewelry in stores are of the same mindset of stealing an election if given the opportunity. Aim small , hit small, aim large hit big,,,it;s all part of the same criminal mindset which is the opposite of target shooting when you aim small you miss small, Avanati just got in the wrong crosshairs.
In Regards To Hunter Biden And His ” Mental State, President Joe Biden Is Hunter Biden’s Father, And thus This Quote Seems Appropriate, ” The Acorn Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree . “. And to Make a Comment About ” Michael Avenatti, ” Is A Gift That Keeps On Giving, To Paraphrase This Quote. Michael Avenatti, A Lawyer Defrauded his own Client, How Low Can anyone Go, To Defraud A Phorn Star Yet, Story Daniels, Perhaps Shackspeare had Something When he, To Paraphrase Him. Said, ” The First Thing We Should Do Is to Kill All Lawyers…. “
Pretty bad when a lawyer is sleazier than his client. That guy could be living the high life and he just threw it away.
IMO 99% of defense lawyers, are JUST AS sleezy if not more so, than many of their clients are..
Well, looks like he has all the credentials to run for office as a Democrat!
Yup. Look for him to run for chicago mayor, once he gets out.
To tedwis65 Which It Or The Democrats Will Use ” The Race Card Against You, You… You Racist, You.!
Correction To Response To Ypur Comments, Watch It, Or The democrats Will Use ” The Race Card Against You…You ,You Racist, You.!!
He will be very popular in prison. Maybe even develop a new gait. Wink, wink.
When you sleep with the serpent you will always suffer an eventual deadly bite. There must be something amiss in the minds of theses liberals every single one of them live in a freak world where right is wrong , wrong is right and lies are endless.
But, but, but…Orange Man still Bad! And Avenatti skates. Our effed up legal system. Was there an attempt at Tort reform back during Bush’s time as POTUS? And the DNC law contingent fought it vehemently. So much wrong in our once great Nation thanks to the DNC Crime Syndicate’s generations long battle to create their “Great Society”. ******** flowing.
No matter what, to the libtards, orangeman will always be bad.