Analysis: Michael Avenatti’s spectacular fall from (brief) grace
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 25 at 6:12 PM It has been about seven months since Michael Cohen implicated President Trump in felony campaign finance violations — an implication that Trump’s own Justice Department would later assert, too. And as the press-hungry attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti played a major role in making that happen.
Tmrw at 11 am ET, we will be holding a press conference to disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball. Later that month, a judge ruled that Avenatti owed a former law partner $4.85 million in back pay — on top of $10 million from a previous judgment. Another headline noted that he owed millions in unpaid taxes and judgments.
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