Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 12:25pm

Schadenfruede: Avenatti Edition

 

Attorney Michael Avenatti, who came to national prominence as the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, was arrested on federal charges in two separate cases in California and New York, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged Avenatti for allegedly trying to extort Nike for nearly $20 million. Prosecutors said he and another attorney threatened to release damaging information about the company if it did not meet his demands.

The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles separately announced Avenatti faces bank and wire fraud charges for allegedly embezzling money from a client and defrauding a bank through fake tax returns.

Avenatti was arrested in New York and appeared in federal court Monday afternoon in Manhattan. He was released on a $300,000 personal recognizance bond and ordered to surrender his passport. He is also required to report any transactions of $5,000 or more to the court, and his travel is restricted. He’s scheduled to appear in court in California on April 1, with preliminary hearings in New York set for April 25.

 

Go here to read the rest.  If Justice Kavanaugh has a grin on his face all day, I suspect I know why:

 

 

 

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Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Tuesday, March 26, AD 2019 7:31am

If there’s a Psalm about The Lord of Hosts scattering the enemies of Israel before him, yesterday was the day for it.

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