A jury convicted him of wire fraud and identity theft in pocketing money from her book.
On June 2, 2022, he was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Daniels. He is currently in the low-security Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, near Long Beach, California with the registration number of 86483-054.
nearly $300,000Stormy Daniels speaks US Federal Court with her lawyer Michael Avenatti (R) on April 16, 2018, in Lower Manhattan, New York. New York (CNN) Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client, adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Daniels went on to write a memoir, “Full Disclosure,” for which she was to receive an $800,000 advance. But according to federal prosecutors, Avenatti stole $300,000 of that amount by faking Daniels's signature on a form that rerouted the wire transfers to an account he controlled.
The State Bar has placed this attorney on involuntary inactive status. As a result, the attorney is ineligible to practice law in California.
Avenatti's law license is suspended while the state seeks to disbar him, but he nonetheless has been representing himself. In the five weeks since the trial opened, he has argued that prosecutors failed to take into account the expenses he incurred while working for the clients whose money he is accused of embezzling.
Michael Avenatti sentenced to 4 years in prison for defrauding Stormy Daniels. Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for cheating client Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who catapulted him to fame, of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds.