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CNN hopeful for the 2016 presidency, Michael Avenatti, has been convicted Friday of stealing almost $300,000 in book-advance payment from his then-client Stephanie Clifford, whose pornography stage name is Stormy Daniels. This is only his second conviction.
During this trial, prosecutors showed how the shyster lawyer, 50, is a calculating scumbag who stole two book-advances from Stormy in 2018, the year he appeared on the Comedy News Network more times than Stormy Daniels appeared buckbonkey, bumping uglies on video.
Clifford signed a book deal with St. Martin's Press [where did they get the "St." part?] after she didn't hush about the $130,000 in hush money she was paid, coincidentally just before the 2016 presidential election to keep her hushed about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump, which happened years prior to the campaign.
Prosecutors were able to show that Avenatti forged Clifford's name on a letter to her literary agent [because they call everything literature these days] that directed the agent to wire two payments meant for Stormy to go into a bank account he controlled.
Brilliant!
Daniels was the government’s star witness at the trial and testified that she did not give Brian Stelter's hope for the nation permission to keep the money owed to her through the book contract.
“He stole from me and lied to me,” she said on the witness stand, as her breasts heaved up and down and up and down.
Daniels added that Avenatti had promised her he would “never take a penny from me for the book.”
Daniels was the government’s star witness at the trial and testified that she did not give Brian Stelter's hope for the nation permission to keep the money owed to her through the book contract.
“He stole from me and lied to me,” she said on the witness stand, as her breasts heaved up and down and up and down.
Daniels added that Avenatti had promised her he would “never take a penny from me for the book.”
Well, technically he didn't take a penny from her.
Prosecutors showed jurors documents related to the book deal, as well as a series of text messages between Avenatti and Daniels, which proved how he repeatedly lied to her about the money.
When she didn’t receive the payments on time, Daniels asked Avenatti about the missing cash, according to the text messages.
“I did not get paid today. I am not f–king happy,” she said, in reverse to what she is normally happy about.
“The publisher owes me a payment … This is bulls–t,” she wrote in another.
Instead of admitting that he stole the money, Avenatti told her he would “figure out” what happened – even though he had already received and spent it. Avenatti claimed that Daniels is not credible at the trial.
In their closing argument, prosecutors pointed to a “mountain of evidence” against Avenatti, who they argued betrayed the trust of his client.
Avenatti, who represented himself at trial, proved once again, that people who represent themselves at trial have an idiot for a lawyer. He said he was innocent and in his closing argument said Daniels owed him money because of the amount of work he and his law firm did for her.
When she didn’t receive the payments on time, Daniels asked Avenatti about the missing cash, according to the text messages.
“I did not get paid today. I am not f–king happy,” she said, in reverse to what she is normally happy about.
“The publisher owes me a payment … This is bulls–t,” she wrote in another.
Instead of admitting that he stole the money, Avenatti told her he would “figure out” what happened – even though he had already received and spent it. Avenatti claimed that Daniels is not credible at the trial.
In their closing argument, prosecutors pointed to a “mountain of evidence” against Avenatti, who they argued betrayed the trust of his client.
Avenatti, who represented himself at trial, proved once again, that people who represent themselves at trial have an idiot for a lawyer. He said he was innocent and in his closing argument said Daniels owed him money because of the amount of work he and his law firm did for her.
Then why didn't he come clean about the money he stole in the first place, or at the very least, bill her that amount?
He also claimed prosecutors’ case against him was full of holes and likened it to a meal that has a “cockroach in the middle of the plate.” See, he had an idiot defending him.
“On Sept. 27, 2019 … You stated that I was ‘f—ing myself pretty nice and hard and that when I go to prison, there will be a long line of people to ass-rape me,’” Avenatti asked Daniels, who did not deny making the comment because there is a level of truth to that statement if prison movies depict reality.
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But as noted, this wasn't Avenatti's first rodeo. In 2020 he was convicted in the same federal court of attempting to shakedown Nike, the sportswear giant, for $25,000,000 and was sentenced to 30 months for that case.
At his sentencing, he told the judge he betrayed himself and his friends while sparring with the former president and his supporters.
“I lost my way,” he said. “I betrayed my own values, friends, family and myself.”
“I was driven by things that do matter in life. Television and Twitter mean nothing,” he added, causing CNN's host of "Reliable Sources" Brian Stelter, to uncontrollably break down in tears and rocking himself on a corner chair.
At his sentencing, he told the judge he betrayed himself and his friends while sparring with the former president and his supporters.
“I lost my way,” he said. “I betrayed my own values, friends, family and myself.”
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“I was driven by things that do matter in life. Television and Twitter mean nothing,” he added, causing CNN's host of "Reliable Sources" Brian Stelter, to uncontrollably break down in tears and rocking himself on a corner chair.
"He had so much to offer the country; the world; to me," Stelter said. "And now with Jeff gone, I don't know how I'm going to make it through the night."
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