Avenatti gets 4 years in prison for cheating Stormy Daniels
By: BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER
Well there is justice. Stupid prick.............
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N EW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for stealing book proceeds from Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who catapulted him to fame as he represented her in courtrooms and cable news programs during her legal battles with then-President Donald Trump.
The California lawyer, currently incarcerated, learned his fate in Manhattan federal court, where Judge Jesse M. Furman said the sentence will mean that Avenatti will spend another 2 1/2 years in prison on top of the 2 1/2 years he is already serving after another fraud conviction.
He said he believed the sentence “will send a message to lawyers” that, if they go astray, they will lose their profession and their liberty.
Avenatti, wearing a drab beige prison uniform, choked up several times as he delivered a lengthy statement before the sentence was announced, saying he had “disappointed scores of people and failed in a cataclysmic way.”
Avenatti, shackled at the feet, hugged his lawyers and then shuffled out of court.
At trial earlier this year, Avenatti represented himself, cross-examining his former client for hours about their experiences in early 2018, when she signed a book deal that provided an $800,000 payout. Prosecutors said he illegally pocketed about $300,000 of her advance on “Full Disclosure,” published in fall 2018.
The book's publication came at a time when Avenatti's law practice was failing financially even as he appeared regularly on cable television news channels, attacking Trump. Avenatti represented Daniels in lawsuits meant to free her from a $130,000 hush payment she received shortly before the 2016 presidential election to remain silent about a tryst she said she had with Trump a decade earlier. Trump denied it.
Daniels was not in court. Her current attorney, Clark Brewster, spoke on her behalf, saying it was “truly shocking” that Avenatti tried to portray himself as a champion of his clients during his statement.
His conviction for aggravated identity theft required a mandatory two-year prison sentence. He was also convicted of wire fraud. He’s already serving a 2 1/2-year sentence for trying to extort Nike. Avenatti was convicted in 2020 of threatening to ruin the shoemaker’s reputation if it did not pay him up to $25 million.
And he faces a retrial in California on charges that he cheated clients and others of millions of dollars there.
In a presentence submission, Avenatti's lawyers cited an apology letter Avenatti recently wrote to Daniels in which he said: “I am truly sorry.”
But prosecutors in a sentencing submission last week urged that that he should face “substantial” additional time in prison for a wire fraud conviction and criticized his apology letter, saying the 51-year-old failed to apologize for his actual crime.
And they recalled that during “an extremely lengthy" cross-examination, he “berated his victim for lewd language and being a difficult client, questioned her invasively about marital and familial difficulties, and sought to cast her as crazy, much as he did during the course of his fraud to prevent her own agent and publisher from responding to her pleas for help.”
“The defendant certainly had every right to defend himself at trial. But he is not entitled to a benefit for showing remorse, having done so only when convenient and only after seeking to humiliate his victim at a public trial, and denigrating and insulting her for months to her agent and publisher while holding himself out as taking up her cause against the powerful who might have taken advantage of her,” prosecutors wrote.
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One can see from the picture he is already doing "a workout" in anticipation of Bubba........
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy LMMFAO
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It must really suck to have to pay porn stars for sex.
Apparently, not as bad as not being able to afford it.
Maybe? They’re probably really good at it.
It must really suck to have to pay porn stars for sex.
Do you know any porn stars that don't charge for sex with strangers?
A champion of his clients? This man lost a lawsuit where a hooker had to pay MILLIONS to have sex. But, he was the lefts best thing going after Trump and we see where that got them.
Don't you just love what the left parades out as their "champion".
Who is parading him as a champion?
The Democrats were championing him to run for president. Don't believe me, look it up.
I don't believe you. Don't give a shit either. Who are 'The Democrats'?
Quite rightfully, the Democrats were looking for someone to take down Trump and for a brief while Avenatti looked like he could be that person.
I never saw it that way.
Then you need to pay more attention
He was their presidential contender - before, “and then shuffled out of court.”
Then you weren't looking very closely.............
" Avenatti is the lead storm chaser in a little-noticed front in the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign: Who can out-Trump the sitting president by going the furthest to break procedural “norms”?"
List those that thought that.
Based on what, exactly? His opposition to Trump? He can get in line.
I’ll remind you, he was hired to be a foe of Trump. It’s not like he was this idealistic public servant trying to save America on his own initiative. Michael Avenatti has always been 100% for Michael Avenatti. If there is a paycheck and a shitload of public adulation in it, he’s there.
Democrats are STILL looking for the elusive person to bring Trump down six years later.
Persistent cusses!
No need to list anything because you know what was said is true. Of course, the biggest cheerleaders were leftist loons on CNN and MSDNC.
And no, just because I did not honor you hollow request, I do not have anything.
Google can be your friend....and maybe your education .
Then you must now watch cnn or msnbc
One of my favorites.
Classic............ but he wasn't the popular one.........so we are told
I like the last part of the video best. 'All of my sexual fantasies include handcuffs' and he looks directly at joy Bahar. He should have been committed right after that.
The left.
This fuckin guy. What a human train wreck! I wonder if all his conjugal visits will come from people at MSNBC and CNN.
LOL. Who talks like that?
Here’s a happy ending -
“And he faces a retrial in California on charges that he cheated clients and others of millions of dollars there.”
The jury was rigged...obviously. Right Greg?
Yrah, that is really what he wrote!
Holy shit - look at all the Googicapped.