In yet another day of magical amazing news, slimeball scumbucket Michael Avenatti is in big big trouble:
The Manhattan US Attorney’s office said Monday that it is charging attorney Michael Avenatti “for attempting to extract more than $20 million in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met.”
WOW.
BREAKING: Attorney Michael Avenatti criminally charged with four counts of extortion and related conspiracy counts.
Press conference at 2:30 pm. pic.twitter.com/dXUXqITQMZ
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 25, 2019
Good luck with that, buddy.
We’ll post more info as it becomes available.
UPDATE: Here are the charges.
In a 11-page complaint, prosecutors accuse Avenatti of extorting Nike by threatening to release damaging information about the company if they did not agree to multimillion dollar payments to him and a client.
The document: https://t.co/UB1cMrBvaD
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 25, 2019
And some response:
It’s Lent but it feels like Christmas. Avenatti charged. Trump cleared.
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 25, 2019
So Trump is cleared and former @cnn media darling and Trump basher @MichaelAvenatti was just charged with “extortion” in New York against @Nike.
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 25, 2019
The complaint alleges Avenatti said he’d refrain from holding a press conference, if Nike paid his client $1.5 million & agreed to “retain” him to conduct an “internal investigation,” for which he and a co-conspirator would be paid “at a minimum, between $15 and $25 million.”
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) March 25, 2019
Mhm.
Update – here’s what Avenatti tweeted just about an hour ago:
Tmrw at 11 am ET, we will be holding a press conference to disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 25, 2019
Sooooooo it sounds like he screwed up huh?
ALSO!!
It looks like they have him ON TAPE!!
Amazing. Avenatti, speaking directly with Nike’s lawyers, allegedly threatened to extort the company. The lawyers immediately called up the Justice Department and set up a recorded sting of Avenatti reiterating his allegedly criminal demands pic.twitter.com/6PkOUjsH7F
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 25, 2019
WOW. Now that is an amazing turn of events.
Sooper-Update!!
ahahahahahaha pic.twitter.com/p9pbu4DsJK
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 25, 2019
Via TheRightScoop
