He has been ineligible to practice law in California since May 4, 2020. On February 14, 2020, Avenatti was convicted of all charges against him in the New York court. Avenatti was held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center while he awaited sentencing for his extortion conviction in the New York case.
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51 years (February 16, 1971)Michael Avenatti / Age
-- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is demanding former congressman Blake Farenthold (R) cover the cost of a special election to replace him in Congress. “While you have publicly offered to reimburse the $84,000 in taxpayer funds you wrongly used to settle a sexual harassment claim, there is no legal recourse requiring you to give that money back to Congress,” Abbott said in a Wednesday letter. “I am urging you to give those funds back to the counties in your district to cover the costs of the June 30, 2018, special election. This seat must be filled, and the [taxpayers] … should not again pay the price for your actions.” ( Dallas Morning News)
-- Sessions testified that Trump can pardon anyone he wants without the Justice Department's input. From Sari Horwitz and Ellen Nakashima: “The president ‘clearly has the constitutional power to execute pardons’ without conferring with the Office of the Pardon Attorney, Sessions said during a hearing before [a] Senate [Appropriations] Subcommittee … In the past two administrations, all pardons originated with the pardon attorney, and the Justice Department then forwarded recommendations to the White House. Sessions had said during past congressional testimony that it would be an abuse of power for the president to pardon someone without first going through the pardon attorney, said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).”
-- French President Emmanuel Macron offered an implicit rejection of Trump’s worldview in his address to a joint session of Congress. Karen DeYoung reports: “Macron expressed hope that the United States would reenter the Paris climate accord … Macron also called for resolving of trade disputes through negotiation and the World Trade Organization, indirectly criticizing Trump’s imposition of tariffs. … More broadly, the free world needed to ‘push aside’ the forces of ‘isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism,’ Macron said … ”