June 2, 2022, at 6:10 a.m. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who took on then-President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for defrauding his best-known former client, the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Michael Avenatti Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Identity Theft And Defrauding A Former Client. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL AVENATTI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge Jesse M.
Avenatti has been in prison since February, though he is appealing his conviction in the Nike case, and filed a notice of appeal of his sentence in the Daniels case.
51 years (February 16, 1971)Michael Avenatti / Age
Avenatti is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort over $20 million from Nike by threatening to go public with damaging information unless they paid him.
Lisa-Storie AvenattiMichael Avenatti / Spouse (m. 2011–2017)
Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels' one-time attorney, sentenced for$25M Nike extortion plot. Avenatti represented Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a tryst with Donald Trump. He was convicted of fraud related to LA youth basketball and a Nike sponsorship. He faces fraud two more trials this year, and another in 2022, on fraud and other charges.
Exit Full Screen. Avenatti represented Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a tryst with Donald Trump. He was convicted of fraud related to LA youth basketball and a Nike sponsorship. He faces fraud two more trials this year, and another in 2022, on fraud and other charges.
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.". Daniels said a tryst with Trump a decade earlier resulted in her being paid $130,000 by Trump's ...
Daniels said a tryst with Trump a decade earlier resulted in her being paid $130,000 by Trump's personal lawyer in 2016 to stay silent. Trump denied the affair.
Avenatti formerly represented Stormy Daniels, who tried to sue the president to get out of a non-disclosure agreement she had signed before the 2016 presidential election .
An employee of Adidas, a Nike competitor, was convicted in that prosecution. The lawyers said Avenatti threatened to do billions of dollars of damage to Nike and then falsely tweeted that criminal conduct at Nike reached the "highest levels.".