Former Stormy Daniels attorney and convicted felon Michael Avenatti on Tuesday accused the porn star of engaging in “falsification of business records, wire fraud, and fraudulent transfers” to defraud former President Donald Trump out of money she allegedly received from a documentary.
The former attorney for adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, claims that former President Donald Trump’s legal team has “contacted” him, and says he would be willing to testify.
Former attorney Michael Avenatti joined MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Tuesday for a phone interview from Terminal Island Prison in California.
Avenatti reportedly cast doubt on District Attorney of New York Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump.
Michael Avenatti, the disgraced lawyer who became a media darling after targeting former President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients and trying to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from collecting millions in unpaid payroll taxes.
For Tribe to suggest Trump is guilty of attempting to murder his vice president shows judgment akin to supporting Michael Avenatti for president.
Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti entered a guilty plea on Thursday in a California federal court on wire fraud and tax-related charges.
Michael Avenatti, the formerly high-flying celebrity lawyer who targeted President Donald Trump and became a darling of the establishment media, told a court in Southern California on Sunday that he will plead guilty in remaining cases.
Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday after being found guilty of defrauding pornographic actress Stormy Daniels of nearly $300,000 over her book about an alleged affair with former President Donald Trump.
CNN’s favorite presidential candidate, Michael Avenatti, is officially a federal prisoner.
Michael Avenatti, the befallen lawyer who became a Democrat hero for representing pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, was found guilty by a jury on Friday of cheating his former client out of money owed for her book about an alleged affair with Trump.
Friday, CBS News correspondent Jamie Wax admitted the press failed in its coverage of disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti, who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels.
A judge handed down a 30-month prison sentence to disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti — who rose to national prominence purely by casting himself as a left-wing champion fighting former President Donald Trump — Thursday afternoon for attempting to extort Nike for millions of dollars.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who publicly sparred with then-President Donald Trump before criminal fraud charges on two coasts disrupted his rapid ascent to fame, faces sentencing in one of those cases Thursday.
Michael Avenatti’s lawyers have requested that he serve no longer than six months in prison after he was found guilty by jurors in an attempt to extort $25 million from Nike, according to the Associated Press.
CNN pundit Ana Navarro faced fierce backlash on social media after she tweeted out a wedding day photo of White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller, saying, “God help us, it’s going to procreate.”
Michael Avenatti’s “true character” was exposed following a Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict Friday, said his former client, Stormy Daniels.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer who gained fame by representing a porn star in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump, was convicted Friday of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike.
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the combative lawyer who gained fame by representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits involving President Donald Trump, was convicted Friday of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike. The verdict was returned by a
NEW YORK (AP) — A deep-in-debt Michael Avenatti threatened to deploy his big social media and television presence like a “modern weapon” to try to extort up to $25 million from Nike, a prosecutor claimed Wednesday while a lawyer for the California attorney told jurors at a trial’s opening not to criminalize his client’s “aggressive, tenacious, demanding behavior.”
Michael Avenatti’s lawyers sent a letter to Judge Paul Gardephe on Monday, complaining about the conditions in which he is being kept.
A New York federal judge rejected Michael Avenatti’s bid Wednesday to dismiss charges where he is accused of extorting sportswear brand Nike.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the brash former attorney for the porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested for allegedly violating bail by committing numerous financial crimes to conceal assets from creditors while living a lavish lifestyle, U.S. prosecutors alleged in a court document released Wednesday.
Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested Tuesday in California on allegations that he violated bail, according to a court filing by federal prosecutors.
NEW YORK (AP) — California attorney Michael Avenatti wants to portray Nike as a villain and himself a hero at his extortion trial later this month, the company said in a court filing made public Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say California attorney Michael Avenatti was over $15 million in debt when he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike, while Avenatti’s lawyers say the money he legally requested to conduct an internal probe of the sportswear giant was a bargain.
NEW YORK (AP) — An indictment charging California attorney Michael Avenatti with conspiring to extort Nike has been rewritten to drop two conspiracy counts.
Attorney Michael Avenatti has filed a claim against Stormy Daniels alleging she owes him more than $2 million in unpaid legal fees.
So how did a man who is a proven ally of women, who is universally praised by female colleagues, and has never had any complaints lodged against him over his decades-long career come to be labeled a “rapist,” and those who voted to confirm him to the Supreme Court as “rape enablers”? It took a mix of political activism, uncorroborated allegations, and left-wing hysteria – all woven seamlessly into a media narrative blasted 24/7 to drown out the truth and transform a good man into a monster.
Donald Trump Jr. trolled Michael Avenatti on Saturday, sharing a photo on social media of himself with the befallen lawyer’s ex-wife at a recent event.
Remember that glorious period last year when Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti appeared on television with more frequency than Law & Order reruns?
Federal prosecutors have ended their campaign finance investigation, which Trump’s critics had hoped would lead to his arrest or impeachment.
“You know, there were two, a number of famous people who uh, there was a guy, named Langston Hughes, a poet who said, ‘Let America be America again,'” Biden said at the beginning of his remarks in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on Tuesday.
“I wish I would have thought of this,” Avenatti wrote on Twitter in response. “Oh Wait.”
Disgraced television lawyer Michael Avenatti is blaming President Donald Trump for his latest legal woes, even claiming that an individual close to the president told him Wednesday’s federal indictment “had Trump’s fingerprints all over it.”
“Prime-time anchors” and “talent” allegedly allowed disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti to be abusive towards staffers, a Vanity Fair report claims.
Disgraced television lawyer and resistance paragon Michael Avenatti was charged Wednesday for defrauding his former client, pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump Jr. fired up his father’s supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin: “No obstruction, no collusion, and what everyone else in this room other than maybe the people at the podium there knew all along … no shit!”
After former Vice President Joe Biden announced his 2020 campaign for president in a video Thursday, troubled TV lawyer Michael Avenatti endorsed him and said, “He has my enthusiastic support.”
Michael Avenatti has been accused of embezzling $2.5 million from a negotiated payment Miami Heat player Hassan Whiteside thought he was making to his former girlfriend, Alexis Gardner, according to prosecutors.