Finally.
Michael Avenatti, the attorney who formerly represented on-screen prostitute Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday for attempting to extort $20 million from Nike. He will serve two-and-half years in prison.
Avenatti was convicted in February 2020 upon a jury trial finding him guilty on counts of extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, and wire fraud.
“While the defendant may have tried to hide behind legal terms and a suit and tie, the jury clearly saw the defendant’s scheme for what it was — an old fashioned shakedown,” Geoffrey Berman, the prior U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, stated upon his guilty verdict.
Avenatti vowed in March 2019 to expose Nike’s supposed wrongdoing funneling payments to basketball players, to which the company recorded a vulgar tirade of his and forwarded it to federal investigators. Avenatti threatened Nike that he would perform his own independent investigation. Avenatti’s initial indictment included a total of 36 charges including fraud, perjury, embezzlement, tax evasion, and additional financial crimes.
“I’m not fuc-ing around with this, and I’m not continuing to play games,” Avenatti was caught saying to Nike by the FBI.
Good. Hope he gets all the prison sex he deserves
2 1/2 years? What a joke justice in this country is.
As we all know, 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
He’ll be out in plenty of time for his campaign manager Brian Stelter to book an assortment of men’s restrooms in all the key bus stations for campaign stops of the presidential juggernaut that is Michael Avenatti
After deducting time served along with 2 days of good behavior and reduced sentencing due to prison overcrowding he’ll have to spend the night in jail before being released.
Now that Trump is no longer an issue, the tool is being discarded. Same thing is gonna happen to that bozo Cohen.
But the left looooooves him!
https://youtu.be/sfVwotyqhHc
2 1\2 yrs?
Pfffftttt!
Basta!
Isn’t that Avenatti’s favorite saying for when he was sure things were going his way? 🙂
Michael Avenatti didn’t kill himself.
After a year and a half they’ll be re-building his colon with a 5lb ham…
Could not happen to a better…jerk…
Trying to filter my Bronx accent…
When I remember his efforts to derail Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supremely Gutless Court by promoting that lunatic Julie Swetnick’s collection of fake rape parties, I think this Creepy Porn Lawyer deserves more time than 30 months in a Federal Wine and Cheese Pairing Facility. However, I’m hopeful he will meet his real fate in a prison yard. Basta for the Bastardo!