Avenatti charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels

[jimnyc]

Damn, who didn't this guy fraud out of money? While everyone else was wheeling and dealing in BS, he was wheeling and dealing in stealing money!

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Avenatti charged with defrauding Stormy Daniels

Prosecutors on Wednesday indicted disgraced celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti on fraud and aggravated identify theft charges related to his former client, Stormy Daniels.

Avenatti forged Daniels’ signature and used fraudulent documents to convince a literary agent to divert nearly $300,000 in payments from Daniels’ book advance, according to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

They claimed that Avenatti used the money “principally for his own personal and business purposes.”

The indictment does not identify Daniels as the victim, but ABC News reported earlier on Wednesday that the charges were related to Avenatti’s work with the porn star.

According to prosecutors, Avenatti received two separate payments of $148,750 in the alleged scheme. He also “lied” to Daniels when she inquired about her book payments by claiming that the publisher had yet to pay her literary agent.

After obtaining the first payment, Avenatti allegedly used funds from another source to pay Daniels so that she would not realize she had been scammed.

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[jimnyc]

And Nike too - he's screwed!!

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Avenatti Charged With Ripping Off Stormy Daniels, Extorting Nike, DOJ Says

Federal prosecutors in New York charged lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday for allegedly ripping off porn star Stormy Daniels and for allegedly trying to extort Nike.

Avenatti became famous when he represented Daniels and received over $175,000,000 in free promotion through over 121 appearances on CNN and 108 appearances on MSNBC, both of which brought him on to attack President Donald Trump.

In a statement, the Department of Justice wrote that Avenatti was indicted on fraud and aggravated identity theft charges:

As alleged, AVENATTI used misrepresentations and a fraudulent document purporting to bear his client’s name and signature to convince his client’s literary agent to divert money owed to AVENATTI’s client to an account controlled by AVENATTI. AVENATTI then spent the money principally for his own personal and business purposes.

The DOJ also announced that Avenatti was separately indicted today on extortion charges, "relating to his alleged attempt to extract more than $20 million in payments from Nike, Inc., by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met."

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