DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus Michael Avanatti - Arrested on Federal Charges

Poor guy. First dumped by a Trump cast-off porn star and now this...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/michael...day-2019-03-24/

Attorney Michael Avenatti has been arrested on federal charges of wire and bank fraud in California, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said Monday.

Authorities in the Central District of California plan to hold a press conference detailing the charges Monday afternoon.

This is a developing story.


https://www.newschannel5.com/news/national/michael-avenatti-charged-with-extortion

The Manhattan US Attorney's office said Monday that it is charging attorney Michael Avenatti "for attempting to extract more than $20 million in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met."

This story is breaking and will be updated.


*Edited for my horrid spelling.

lolol good lord this season of America is too lit this year.

Everyone knew he was a scum bag from day one. It amazes me how easy some people can recognize one scum bag and be so blind in seeing another one.

I just liked him because he went after Trump so hard. Since he left that scene, I could care less. I lost interest in him when he tried to turn it political and get himself an office out of it. He was the shiny new thing for a hot minute, but he has his own skeletons apparently. smh

Nike?!? Brilliant!

TMZ


Michael Avenatti has been arrested and charged with trying to extort $20 million out of Nike.

The feds claim Avenatti told Nike's lawyers if they didn't pay him between $15 million and $25 million he would hold a news conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings call and the start of March Madness and announce allegations of misconduct by employees at the shoe company.

According to the complaint, Avenatti demanded Nike hire him to conduct an internal investigation for the enormous salary.

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York says Avenatti was representing a client who was the coach of an AAU Youth Club basketball team.

Prosecutors say Avenatti gave Nike an option ... don't hire him but pay $22.5 million to resolve the dispute and buy his silence.

The complaint says Avenatti claimed the AAU coach had evidence that one or more Nike employees had funded payments to the families of top high school basketball players and attempted to conceal those payments.

According to prosecutors, there was a call on March 20 between Avenatti and Nike during which Avenatti said, "I'm not f**king around with this, and I'm not continuing to play games ... you guys know enough now to know you've got a serious problem ... So if you guys think that you know, we're gonna negotiate a million five, and you're gonna hire us to do an internal investigation, but it's gonna be capped at 3 or 5 or 7 million dollars, like let's just be done."

Prosecutors say then Avenatti makes a threat ..."I'll go and I'll go take 10 billion dollars off your client's market cap. But I'm not f**king around."

The U.S. Attorney says the call was recorded and there's video of a meeting between Avenatti and Nike attorneys on March 21. In that meeting, Avenatti allegedly said, "If [Nike] wants to have one confidential settlement and we're done, they can buy that for $22.5 million and we're done."

During that same meeting, prosecutors say Avenatti set a March 25 deadline and said, "If this is not papered on Monday, we are done. I don't want to hear about somebody on a bike trip. I don't want to hear that ... somebody's grandmother passed away or ... the dog ate my homework, I don't want to hear -- none of it is going to go anywhere unless somebody was killed in a plane crash."

Avenatti allegedly told Nike he had them by "the balls."

That's not the end of it ... Avenatti was just arrested for more federal crimes ... bank and wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California claims Avenatti embezzled client money to cover expenses for his coffee corporation which operates Tully's Coffee stores in CA and Washington.

As for allegations of bank fraud, prosecutors say Avenatti submitted false tax returns to a bank in Mississippi to get $4.1 million in loans. To get the loan, Avenatti claimed he had paid nearly $3 million in federal taxes in 2012 and 2013. Prosecutors say in fact, Avenatti paid zero and still owed $850,438.

We reached out to Avenatti, but we could not get through.

So creepy porn lawyer gets his. Love it!

I'm sure Kavanaugh will have "one" beer in celebration.

I bought him a case

Hmmm...........let's see:

He was the left's hero when he represented stormy against trump. She ended up firing him after she was determined by a judge to owe right around $300,000 in trumps legal fees.

He owes back rent in the amount of.......HOW much? I don't remember.

He entertained the idea of running for president.

Now the Nike suit.

AND the suit in N.Y.

Seems to me he had something he was sued for in Missouri as well. I don't recall for sure.

Just goes to show it's tough being a scam artist.

The Feds recorded everything, they have creepy porn lawyer dead to rights.

He was never the lefts hero. He was just a hemorrhoid to Trump. People thought it was funny watching one scum bag going after another scum bag.

I'm glad he's been off my TV screen for months.
Always found him to be a skeevy one.

Hope he's not on my screen for very much time after this newsdrop.

I wonder who will supply him for his 2nd hour of 'celebrating'...

p.s. I bought a 12-pack for Skee.

Dear students:

integrity noun
in·​teg·​ri·​ty | \ in-ˈte-grə-tē \
Definition of integrity
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY
2 : an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS
3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS

Hey, he rates right up there with criminals like Manafort and Cohen now. Social status is really important for some people I guess.

Is this the same guy people were touting for a 2020 bid?

What people?

did you not see the ? at the end of my sentence? Here ?

He was our scumbag though and Arch can't let that go.

He can drink all he wants as long as no teenage girls are present.

Me and others laughed thinking it would have been fun watching him and Trump go at it, but nobody was supporting him in a bid. smh

Cool, I couldn't remember if anyone was touting him or not....and didn't want to go back through 100 threads looking, hence why I asked the ?. Thank you for answering.

Stalking me again I see.

lmao

About 8 months ago, he hinted to a reporter about a possible bid. Everyone I know LTAO at that prospect. After that, I didn't hear anything more about it, and he was completely off my radar. Until today.

Philandering rich boys
Porn stars
Hush money
Skeevy lawyers (X2)

This has all been so tawdry. Glad My Mom isn't around to see this. She'd be clutching her pearls 24/7. As it is, I feel like I need a shower every other hour.

I'm reminded of that famous Chinese blessing/curse:

"May you live in interesting times..."

Guilty. No need for court. Throw away the key.

This type of thinking got people in deep water for the Mueller report. But, keep on keeping on.

Credit where it's due, even the most left posters on this board knew this guy was a scumbag from the beginning.

I have to say this,, I think I knew it the moment he opened his mouth on the public stage about the Porn star..

I believed her, but he showed me he was an arse of the highest order.....

He was trying to make a name for himself like a Bruce Cutler. Didn't work.

Now if all the scum were only treated the same.

If Avenatti did these things then he deserves this. Unlike Trump who got off with a fine on stealing peoples money with Trump U, I think if you defraud people for that kind of money you ass should be in jail. Especially when a poor person steals to survive and gets locked up for a long time. If you steal for greed it should be way worse IMHO.

I have no doubt that Avenatti is a scum bag. He's the type of attorney that give good attorneys a bad name. He's an attention seeker and and a me guy.

But that describes a lot of people.