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New York -- Porn lawyer, former CNN regular and 2020 presidential hopeful Michael Avenatti is asking a judge to dismiss criminal charges against him regarding the extortion of Nike. He blames his arrest not on what he allegedly did, but on vindictive prosecutors. He has released material that his own lawyers say support his claim Nike was paying amateur athletes.
If that is true, it does not seem to exonerate him for trying to get Nike to pay him to keep his mouth shut.
Avenatti's attorneys filed papers Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, saying that he, a loudmouth who gained fame by representing pornography performer Stormy Daniels, and by attacking President Trump on social media, is being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
Avenatti's attorneys filed papers Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, saying that he, a loudmouth who gained fame by representing pornography performer Stormy Daniels, and by attacking President Trump on social media, is being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department.
Unless one takes the crime of extortion seriously.
The lawyers wrote that Avenatti was facing criminal charges in part because of “his aggressive public persona, long feud with President Trump, and brief entanglement with” New York prosecutors who blamed him for spoiling a planned meeting with Daniels last year in their probe of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
Sure, the Democratic New York prosecutors are all on Trump's side against this shyster piece of human waste, who bilked one of his clients, a paraplegic man, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges.
“President Trump, the leader of the Executive Branch, and his family have demonstrated genuine animus toward Mr. Avenatti,” the lawyers said, failing to mention that this should have actually worked in Avenatti's favor. “President Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., gleefully celebrated on Twitter when Mr. Avenatti was arrested on March 25.”
So did most patriotic Americans.
Prosecutors declined through a spokesman to comment.
Avenatti has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to publicize claims the sportswear company enabled payouts to promising young athletes and their families.
Avenatti also represented Stormy Daniels over a nondisclosure deal regarding Daniels’ claims that she had an affair with Trump.
Avenatti is charged separately with defrauding Daniels in a book deal, and he faces federal fraud charges in California related to clients. He has denied wrongdoing over and over and over.
But it's Trump's fault. Everything wrong in the world is somehow President Trump's fault.
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Sure, the Democratic New York prosecutors are all on Trump's side against this shyster piece of human waste, who bilked one of his clients, a paraplegic man, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges.
“President Trump, the leader of the Executive Branch, and his family have demonstrated genuine animus toward Mr. Avenatti,” the lawyers said, failing to mention that this should have actually worked in Avenatti's favor. “President Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., gleefully celebrated on Twitter when Mr. Avenatti was arrested on March 25.”
So did most patriotic Americans.
Prosecutors declined through a spokesman to comment.
Avenatti has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to publicize claims the sportswear company enabled payouts to promising young athletes and their families.
Avenatti also represented Stormy Daniels over a nondisclosure deal regarding Daniels’ claims that she had an affair with Trump.
Avenatti is charged separately with defrauding Daniels in a book deal, and he faces federal fraud charges in California related to clients. He has denied wrongdoing over and over and over.
But it's Trump's fault. Everything wrong in the world is somehow President Trump's fault.
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