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Jose Garcia

(2,552 posts)
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:48 PM Feb 2020

Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion trial

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Source: CNBC

Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday by a jury of all three charges related to his efforts to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike, in what a top prosecutor called "and old fashioned shakedown."

The verdict in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came two years after Avenatti gained widespread notoriety for his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal disputes with President Donald Trump.

Avenatti, who briefly flirted with running for the Democratic presidential nomination, faces two other pending federal criminal cases this spring related to alleged thefts from clients, including Daniels, and other charges.

The 48-year-old attorney was accused in the Nike case of trying to shake down the publicly traded company by threatening to go public with alleged evidence that the company had bribed amateur basketball players and their families unless Nike paid him millions of dollars.



Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/14/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-found-guilty-in-nike-extortion-trial.html

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Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty in Nike extortion trial (Original Post) Jose Garcia Feb 2020 OP
Guess Avenatti doesn't have any Mitch in his pocket /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #1
Well he sure suckered my husband and me in when he was doing cilla4progress Feb 2020 #2
I have to say - me too! KT2000 Feb 2020 #5
I still like him.... FarPoint Feb 2020 #6
SCARY ..... LenaBaby61 Feb 2020 #3
hes dirty - get him out TalenaGor Feb 2020 #4
dude always struck me as slimey since he first showed up on tv. Thomas Hurt Feb 2020 #7
Locking JudyM Feb 2020 #8

bucolic_frolic

(42,677 posts)
1. Guess Avenatti doesn't have any Mitch in his pocket /nt
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:53 PM
Feb 2020

cilla4progress

(24,589 posts)
2. Well he sure suckered my husband and me in when he was doing
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:56 PM
Feb 2020

his tour of MSNBC etc. He suckered Lawrence O'Donnell, too.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
5. I have to say - me too!
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:22 PM
Feb 2020

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
6. I still like him....
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:25 PM
Feb 2020

He has balls...confront tRump...he gets credit for that....

LenaBaby61

(6,965 posts)
3. SCARY .....
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:15 PM
Feb 2020

Avenatti doesn't seem to be any angel, but it's scary that he may be going to jail for years, and that Michael "Lock her up" Flynn may get away with being a treasonous, lying scoundrel even if Judge Sullivan throws the book at him. SMDH.

TalenaGor

(1,103 posts)
4. hes dirty - get him out
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:22 PM
Feb 2020

I dont want any corruption - any reason for anyone to call me a hypocrite....idc which side - corruption must end.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
7. dude always struck me as slimey since he first showed up on tv.
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:25 PM
Feb 2020

liked that he was embarrassing Commander Bedbug though.

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
8. Locking
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 05:32 PM
Feb 2020

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