This is the turd that CNN and MSNBC polished during his stint as Stormy Daniels’ lawyer in an anti-Trump lawsuit.
Attorney Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for dodging taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.
In a district court in Orange County on Monday Avenatti, 51, was also ordered to pay nearly $8million in restitution after admitting he secretly took settlement money paid to his clients and spent some of it to buy a private jet.
Judge James V. Selna said Avenatti’s sentence will run consecutively – or on top of – the five years he is already serving for convictions in New York for an extortion scheme against Nike, and for stealing from Daniels.
Federal prosecutors in Santa Ana had asked Selna to impose a 17-and-a-half year term but Avenatti was trying to make the case that he should get six years.
He also argued, unsuccessfully, that his new sentence run concurrent with the punishment he is already serving for the New York cases.
The prosecutors also accused Avenatti of bilking clients out of $12million, one of whom was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability. He argued that the true amount his clients lost was closer to $3.8million.
……Avenatti’s disabled client Geoffrey Ernest Johnson wrote in a statement to the court that the experience had left him heartbroken and unable to trust people, according to the LA Times.
‘To this day, I do not know why Michael lied and deceived me, why he broke my trust, why he broke my heart,’ Johnson wrote.
Prosecutors said that Avenatti collected $4million from Los Angeles County on behalf of Johnson who suffered in-custody injuries and was left paraplegic after a suicide attempt.
Avenatti denied the settlement was received and paid Johnson smaller amounts ranging from $1,000 to $1,900 that he called advances on full settlement.
……Avenatti also admitted that he stole money from another client – Alexis Gardner, who was paid $2.75million by her ex-boyfriend and Miami Heat player Hassan Whiteside.
Gardner was a barista and an actress when she hired him to negotiate a settlement with Whiteside. It is unknown what she alleged.
It was $2.5million of Gardner’s money that he spent on a share of the eight-seater Honda jet, which will now be confiscated by the government.
If you need a good example of just how much of a pig Avenatti really is, he represented a leftie activist pouf who verbally harassed Tucker Carlson’s 19 year old daughter, calling her a “whore” and a “fucking cunt” at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He’ll just have to learn to penal code.
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