Attorney Michael Avenatti was released Monday evening from jail on $300,000 bond, according to multiple reports.
“Avenatti used illegal and extortionate threats for the purpose of obtaining millions of dollars in payments from a public company,” Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday, according to The New York Times.
“Calling this anticipated payout a retainer or a settlement doesn’t change what it was — a shakedown. When lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys,” he added.
Separately, federal prosecutors in California on Monday charged Avenatti with bank and wire fraud.
Avenatti told reporters Monday that he would “never stop fighting the good fight” against powerful corporations and individuals and said he expects to be “fully exonerated” of the charges, according to the Associated Press.
I’m willing to give Avenatti the same presumption of guilt that he gave Judge Brett Kavanugh. Basta you Bastardo!
My thought is he will leave the country, but doesn’t do research and goes to a country that has extradition agreement with the US. He’s too conceited to kill himself.
He’s going to find a way to blame Trump.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Avenatti can hum this Tom Petty tune in the slammer
Shakedown, go ahead and give it to me
Shakedown, honey, take me through the night
(Take me, baby, shakedown, ooh)
Shakedown, now I’m standin’ here, can’t you see?
Shakedown, it’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright
And Geragos can sing Michael Jackson’s Bad
and the MSM and Dems can all go jump in a volcano together and not a one of them would be missed.
This just keeps getting better. The only thing to top it is pictures emerging of Jeff Zucker molesting little boys.
Their world is collapsing around them and the hilarity continues!
Who was crazy enough to front him $30k?
^^^ No kiddin… he’s gotta be outta Rolexs by now!
Is his cprrect name Avenutty?
Has he quit beating his wife and mistress or did he slap them with a gag order?
Gee, since we’re now going to prosecute shakedown artists, jesse Jackson/Rainbow PUSH and Al Sharton come to mind…