Michael Avenatti charged with trying to extort $20M from Nike
Lawyer Michael Avenatti is facing coast-to-coast charges in separate extortion and fraud schemes, the feds announced Monday.
Avenatti — who shot to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels over her claims of an affair with President Trump and more recently the parents of Azriel Clary, one of R. Kelly’s alleged “sex slaves” — was arrested in Manhattan on charges that he tried to shake down the sneaker giant Nike for $20 million last week, authorities said.
“I’ll go take $10 billion off your client’s market cap … I’m not f–king around,” court papers say he told Nike lawyers during a conference call Wednesday.
That conversation came a day after Avenatti met with Nike’s lawyers and “threatened to release damaging information” if the company didn’t pay off Avenatti and an unidentified co-conspirator, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.
The Wall Street Journal identified the alleged co-conspirator as lawyer Mark Geragos, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Avenatti’s alleged “not f–king around” threat allegedly came on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings report, and two days before the start of the NCAA’s “March Madness” college basketball tournament.
The charges against him were revealed just minutes after Avenatti — who recently flirted with a Democratic presidential campaign —
tweeted that he would be holding a Tuesday morning news conference about “a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered.”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/michael-avenatti-charged-with-trying-to-extort-20m-from-nike/
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Michael Avenatti charged with trying to extort $20M from Nike
Lawyer Michael Avenatti is facing coast-to-coast charges in separate extortion and fraud schemes, the feds announced Monday.
Avenatti — who shot to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels over her claims of an affair with President Trump and more recently the parents of Azriel Clary, one of R. Kelly’s alleged “sex slaves” — was arrested in Manhattan on charges that he tried to shake down the sneaker giant Nike for $20 million last week, authorities said.
“I’ll go take $10 billion off your client’s market cap … I’m not f–king around,” court papers say he told Nike lawyers during a conference call Wednesday.
That conversation came a day after Avenatti met with Nike’s lawyers and “threatened to release damaging information” if the company didn’t pay off Avenatti and an unidentified co-conspirator, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.
The Wall Street Journal identified the alleged co-conspirator as lawyer Mark Geragos, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Avenatti’s alleged “not f–king around” threat allegedly came on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings report, and two days before the start of the NCAA’s “March Madness” college basketball tournament.
The charges against him were revealed just minutes after Avenatti — who recently flirted with a Democratic presidential campaign —
tweeted that he would be holding a Tuesday morning news conference about “a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered.”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/michael-avenatti-charged-with-trying-to-extort-20m-from-nike/
A must read! What a guy!
Good....
Anyone who engages in wire and bank fraud should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law....
None of this "white collar crime isn't really crime" BS republicans been pushing
Good....
Anyone who engages in wire and bank fraud should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law....
No more of this "white collar crime isn't really crime" crap the republicans been pushing
You're telling me Avenatti's co-conspirator in the federal extortion case is Mark Geragos?
Geragos, the CNN contributor? Geragos, the Jussie Smollett lawyer? Geragos, the Colin Kaepernick lawyer?
OH, BE STILL MY HEART
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Who cares if he tried to extort an outsourcing traitor and Qaepernick-lover like Nike? The American people should take every dime the stockholders make off sweatshops. No wonder Free Trade parasites try to make this political.
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how does that impact your life in the least?
You must have one shitty ass life if some sleezey lawyer getting arrested gets you all hot and bothered.
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how does that impact your life in the least?
You must have one shitty ass life if some sleezey lawyer getting arrested gets you all hot and bothered.
Just a few months ago you were coming all over yourself while you thought your mascot, the creepy porn lawyer, was going to bring down the President. Now you're dismissing him as a "sleezey" lawyer. Next time you put your finger up in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing use the one you just pulled out of your ass.
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how does that impact your life in the least?
You must have one shitty ass life if some sleezey lawyer getting arrested gets you all hot and bothered.
Just a few months ago you were coming all over yourself while you thought your mascot, the creepy porn lawyer, was going to bring down the President. Now you're dismissing him as a "sleezey" lawyer. Next time you put your finger up in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing use the one you just pulled out of your ass.
you clearly have me mistake with someone else, I have never said a good word about the creepy porn lawyer, I have always said he was as slimy as an old rain barrel.
"The media behavior, Trump as President beating two failed parties, Avenatti as credible celebrity, awoke culture, the politicization of everything — they’re all symptoms of a broken culture. None are causes. All are signs of something very wrong." - Piers Morgan
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