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NEW YORK β Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity. Avenatti, 50, was convicted last year of charges including attempted ...
Who Is Stormy Daniels Lawyer Michael Avenatti β And Who Is Helping Him? Avenatti represented Daniels in 2018 in lawsuits against Trump, appearing often on cable news programs to disparage the Republican president. Avenatti explored running against Trump in 2020, boasting that he would "have no problem raising money.".
Original: Attorney Michael Avenatti, who has been by Stormy Daniels β side throughout her legal battles against President Donald Trump, was arrested on March 25, on charges that he tried to extort Nike for $20 million.
Update (7/8/21 3:45 pm E.T.): Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented adult entertainer Stormy Daniels, was sentenced to 30 months (two and a half years) in prison on attempted extortion and honest services fraud, after he was found guilty in February 2020, according to The Washington Post.
Michael Avenatti sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Nike - CNNPolitics.
The sentence Avenatti received Thursday was significantly lower than that recommended by the sentencing guidelines, which call for 108 to 135 months in prison, though higher than the six months his counsel had requested.
In exchange for not going public, Avenatti demanded Nike pay his client at the time, youth basketball coach Gary Franklin, $1.5 million, pay Avenatti and another attorney $12 million, and guarantee $15 million to $25 million in payments for an internal investigation.
Avenatti, who rose to fame as Stormy Daniels ' lawyer, was convicted in February 2020 of three counts for threatening to publicly accuse the sportswear company of illicitly paying amateur basketball players unless Nike paid him.
U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: "Michael Avenatti used illegal and extortionate threats and betrayed one of his clients for the purpose of seeking to obtain millions of dollars for himself. "Not only did Avenatti attempt to weaponize his law license and celebrity to seek to extort payments for himself, he also defrauded his own client.
When federal agents arrested Avenatti in March 2019, he had been representing a Los Angeles youth basketball coach who was alleged to have information that Nike employees made illicit payments to top high school athletes.
Michael Avenatti gets 2.5 years in prison for attempting to extort Nike. A federal judge sentenced lawyer Michael Avenatti to 2Β½ years behind bars for an extortion plot against Nike that Avenatti himself said should make his children "ashamed" of their dad. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul G.
Avenatti came to fame as the attorney for Daniels, the adult film actress who said she had an extramarital affair with Donald Trump in 2006 before Trump was alleged to have paid her hush money.