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AP News Radio
Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in California fraud case
"Disgraced attorney Michael avenatti has been sentenced to another 14 years behind bars. In a California fraud case and ordered to pay millions in restitution. The imprisoned lawyer who became famous representing stormy Daniels against Donald Trump and then stealing from her has pleaded guilty to four new counts of wire fraud and tax related charges. He's accused of negotiating big settlements behind his client's backs. And then using the money for himself, including the purchase of a private jet and opening a sideline coffee business. Avenatti apologized to the clients he built, including a man left paraplegic who'd been awarded a $4 million settlement from Los Angeles County, avenatti asked the court to consider the good he had done as a lawyer, but the judge said he had also done great evil. In addition to jail time, there's a $10 million restitution order. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Eric Metaxas Show
'The Devil's Triangle' Author Mark Judge Talks Threats of Extortion
"This is tough stuff. I mean, the idea, you know, lying, we know is wrong. Sexual assault. We know is wrong. Accusing someone of sexual assault, wow, that's huge. You destroy lives that way. So you Eric, excuse me for interrupting, but extortion is wrong. People were trying to extort me and Leland Kaiser. I was getting phone calls from a number in California, and I think we all know who it was. Trying to extort me and Leland Kaiser's friends from high school were saying, she's a stumbling block. Somebody has to give her a talking to and we better do something and we better threaten her because she's had an addiction issue in her past to back blasey Ford or else. So I didn't mean to interrupt her, but that's exciting. Well, first of all, interrupt. I'm the only one that's, as my audience knows, I'm the one doing all the interrupting. It's hard for me to shut up because I want to be clear, but you're not interrupting. This is, I want to hear you. But let me ask you when you say you think we all know who it was in California who's trying to extort Leland Kaiser or you. What do you mean? I don't know who we're talking about. Remember avenatti? Michael avenatti. The creepy. Now I can't prove that. All I know is I got a call on my birthday September 24th, very threatening saying you like to F with people. I like to F with people too. You better call me back. I told the FBI. The FBI has the part of the reason I'm going to interrupt forever is because I forgot, you know, I read your book. I read every word of it, but I'm forgetting stuff, but obviously now I'm being reminded. So you believe it was Michael avenatti. Anybody familiar if they read your book, and again, the book is called the devil's triangle. But if they read your book, or they know the story, they understand how involved he was and the players that were involved. But what you're telling me, Mark, what are you telling my audience is that you are basically threatened that you better play ball or we're coming after you. This
KCBS All News
"avenatti" Discussed on KCBS All News
"For them and also Michael avenatti might find out just how long he has sentenced to jail in California. Good morning. I'm Chris Ann Carlo. News time is 8 31 and we start off our news watch. Miracle is time winds down in today's way to go on game against the Netherlands, Casey VS Mac to all those live in San Francisco. You can hear the excitement in the background. Let's try Chris. That very same chant we just heard here in just a few minutes ago. Now the clock is ticking, a little less than 20 minutes left to play is the United States looks to battle back in this knockout stage, round of 16 game. It's a very tough Netherlands team. It's been a roller coaster of emotions for fans here that enthusiasm, dejection, disappointment. There was a sense of optimism heading into the second half of the team will get on the scoreboard, but so far and still down by two goals. Now, despite the score of fans, I still getting loud here showing them the support for their team or plenty of fight songs and a chance here. Just that team hoping that hope for a miracle here to get on the board. Now McQueen's own pole 'cause a popular spot for soccer fans year round. This is as far as been standing room only and overflow crowd from the opening kick-off just about all those fans have stuck around here. As time winds down looking for a hero and we'll see if they can battle back. And there it is. Team USA, now on the board, you can hear it in the background. Everyone going crazy here. Just a few minutes left to go. A sign of life from the Team USA, chance of Team USA. This crowd that was the shot in the arm they needed everyone. Back into this. We'll send it back to you, Chris reporting live in San Francisco. Mike dewalt, kcbs. All right, you're the
The Charlie Kirk Show
Calling Out Media Hypocrisy With Ari Fleischer
"All right, I'm going to play a piece of tape here. I want you to tell me how you think the media would react if Melania Trump did the following play cut 25. Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community as distinct as the bogus of The Bronx as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio. As unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, pander much, Ari, how would the media react to such a thing? Race this xenophobic stereotypical bigotry. Has she never been asked this again, the hypocrisy of the media in so many different things. You know, Charlie, one of the other things in my book I discovered that if it's along the same line of how when Republicans do it, they get hammered Democrats do what they get a pass. Here's CNN's judgment for you. CNN booked Michael avenatti twice as much over the same period of time as they did the entire Trump administration to talk about COVID. The secretary of Health and Human Services, the surge in general, Doctor Fauci, doctor bricks. Everyone in the Trump administration combined. They booked Michael avenatti almost twice as much to talk about stormy Daniels. If that doesn't tell you how the mainstream media and especially CNN's values were warped how the coverage decisions were flawed, you know, if it was anti Trump, it got a bump. And that's what we saw at the four years of Trump
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"avenatti" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Attorney Michael avenatti has been found guilty of what? Stealing $300,000 from his own client stormy Daniels. And now avenatti has had it not to The White House, but to the big House. It remains an open question, what his sentence is going to be. But just to refresh, I've talked about this case before. Avenatti was accused and he's now found guilty of doing what? Well. When stormy Daniels signed up to write a book, she was apparently offered an advance of $800,000, but payable in three installments. So she got the first installment, but then avenatti when the second and third installment were due, avenatti set up his own account. And he essentially masqueraded as stormy Daniels. And he got the money sent not to stormy Daniels, but to his account, so he intercepted her money and took it for himself and used it on his own luxuries and to buy this and to buy that and to settle this debt and so on. And so stormy Dan is like, where's the money? And avenatti kept sort of putting her off and lying to her and in any case so she finally reported him. And so it turns out that he was found guilty, not just a theft, but also of wire fraud and of impersonating another person. So this is bad because when you add all this up, we're looking at, well, the aggravated identity theft charge. That carries a mandatory two years. So we know we're not going to be seeing avenatti for the next two years unless he's going to be doing CNN interviews with Brian stelter from prison. Reinstalled. What happened? What happened to you? I thought you were such a promising prospect. And then of course there was Anna Navarro who compared avenatti to the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is apparently now going to be eating prison food. But the wire fraud charge is carries a maximum penalty of 20 years now. Do I think avenatti will get 20 or is no, but he's gonna get some years. And those will be on top of the two years, so this is a guy we may not be seeing for a while. And of course he has avenatti the jury. I was her advocate. I was her champion. I put everything on the line. But this is the standard recipe of it. I was doing her a favor. You know, robbing her was really in her own best interest. And U.S. assistant attorney assistant U.S. attorney Robert sobelman quote the defendant was a lawyer who stole from his own client. She thought he was her advocate, but he betrayed her and he told lies to try to cover it up. The defendant's lies in betrayal were all exposed. I can say, well, I don't feel shot in Freud or just sort of delight in avenatti's misery, but this is a vicious dude who thought he was unstoppable who was apparently Trump's gonna end up in jail. I'm gonna make sure the trumps and from ends up in jail and of course Trump it's not Trump was put avenatti in jail. The guy who's responsible for avenatti being heading to prison is none other than.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Michael Avenatti Convicted of Stealing From Stormy Daniels
"Attorney Michael avenatti has been found guilty of what? Stealing $300,000 from his own client stormy Daniels. And now avenatti has had it not to The White House, but to the big House. It remains an open question, what his sentence is going to be. But just to refresh, I've talked about this case before. Avenatti was accused and he's now found guilty of doing what? Well. When stormy Daniels signed up to write a book, she was apparently offered an advance of $800,000, but payable in three installments. So she got the first installment, but then avenatti when the second and third installment were due, avenatti set up his own account. And he essentially masqueraded as stormy Daniels. And he got the money sent not to stormy Daniels, but to his account, so he intercepted her money and took it for himself and used it on his own luxuries and to buy this and to buy that and to settle this debt and so on. And so stormy Dan is like, where's the money? And avenatti kept sort of putting her off and lying to her and in any case so she finally reported him. And so it turns out that he was found guilty, not just a theft, but also of wire fraud and of impersonating another person. So this is bad because when you add all this up, we're looking at, well, the aggravated identity theft charge. That carries a mandatory two years. So we know we're not going to be seeing avenatti for the next two years unless he's going to be doing CNN interviews with Brian stelter from
Bloomberg Radio New York
"avenatti" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In the Bloomberg newsroom We're hearing Saudi Arabia's state oil firm Saudi Aramco raised oil prices for customers in Asia the U.S. and Europe after crudes surged to almost $95 a barrel Nymex crude was last quoted at 92 31 a barrel Peloton interactive is attracting interest from potential suitors including Amazon.com The Wall Street Journal reporting there citing people familiar with the matter Shares of the home fitness company surged as much as 43% in extended trading Friday A New York jury decided yesterday that Michael avenatti former lawyer for porn star stormy Daniels did cheat Daniels out of a nearly $300,000 book fee She was supposed to get for a tell all of her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump Avenatti told the press outside the courthouse he was surprised I am very disappointed in the jury's verdict Avenatti says he will appeal He still has to serve a prison sentence for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike back in 2020 Former NYPD officer Frank serpico has finally received the Medal of Honor for exposing widespread corruption in the police force during his time with the department more from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini In April of 1970s serpico was one of the main whistleblowers in a story published in The New York Times This resulted in a high profile public hearing the nab commission and his testimony led to revealing mass corruption in the NYPD his story was made into that movie starring Al Pacino Serpico's now 85 He says even after 5 decades the Medal of Honor holds meaning for him and serpico tells New York one that throughout the years many NYPD commissioners ignored his request for the honor back in December the controversy was brought to light in a daily news article and he received the medal to these Pellegrini Bloomberg radio Global news 24 hours a.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"avenatti" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"For it The choruses really gnarly The snows challenging the wind is pretty gusty Don't know where the first country to win gold dominating the women's 15 kilometers K Athlon I'm Scott Carr And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom We're hearing Saudi Arabia's state oil firm Saudi Aramco raised oil prices for customers in Asia the U.S. and Europe after crude surged to almost $95 a barrel Nymex crude was last quoted at 92 31 a barrel Peloton interactive is attracting interest from potential suitors including Amazon.com The Wall Street Journal reporting there citing people familiar with the matter shares of the home fitness company surged as much as 43% in extended trading Friday A New York jury decided yesterday that Michael avenatti former lawyer for porn star stormy Daniels did cheat Daniels out of a nearly $300,000 book fee She was supposed to get for a tell all of her alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump Avenatti told the press outside the courthouse he was surprised I am very disappointed in the jury's verdict Avenatti says he will appeal He's still has to serve a prison sentence for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike back in 2020 Former NYPD officer Frank serpico has finally received the Medal of Honor for exposing widespread corruption in the police force during his time with the department more from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini In April of 1970 serpico was one of the main whistleblowers in a story published in The New York Times This resulted in a high profile public hearing the nab commission and his testimony led to revealing mass corruption in the NYPD his story was made into that movie starring Al Pacino Serpico is now 85 He says even after 5 decades the Medal of Honor holds meaning for him and serpico tells New York one that throughout the years many NYPD commissioners ignored his request for the honor back in December the controversy was brought to light in a daily news article and he received the medal Denise Pellegrini Bloomberg radio Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Susanna Palmer This is Bloomberg.
WTOP
"avenatti" Discussed on WTOP
"WT lawyer Michael avenatti was convicted today by a New York jury on charges that he cheated his former client porn actor stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 and Daniels was supposed to get that money for writing a book about an alleged fear with former president Donald Trump before he was in office of a naughty still faces other legal problems He has yet to begin a two and a half year prison sentence he received in 2020 for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike Stay with us We'll have more on this as we go through the afternoon on three 11 The January jobs report is out and it shows the economy added 467,000 jobs despite the recent wave of COVID cases because of all Macron the unemployment rate did tick up a bit 3.9% last month It's now at 4% It also showed that revised job gains for November and December were way better than had been estimated Adjoining us now to unpack these latest numbers is bankrate senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick only yesterday we were talking about how there were all these predictions that this would be a pretty dismal reporter Are you surprised by what came out today Well of course otherwise I would have been lying right That wouldn't be a good look So you know it's a little like we're warming up to the Super Bowl and you know how commentators very often say you know it's going to be a great game and maybe 50% of the time it ends up being a dud Well they got to play the game We got to get this report out And so that's why the report is important And so the difference between a 29 and 8 31 this morning is like the difference between having a defibrillator because coming into the report there was a thought that we could have a decline in payrolls and we had as you said more than 400,000 jobs added in the month and then upward revisions of the previous two months of 700,000 So between those two minutes we had a difference of about 1.2 million jobs that we didn't know we had before So that's a big difference Any reason why we have so many new jobs Employers of prioritized hiring and rotating workers and it appears they're having some success And I think that over time with the known facts that we're having high levels of people who are quitting their jobs and finding new work that we're having rising wages and that we have a near record number of job openings those are all sort of green lights to workers who are inclined to work or search for work to do just that And the other part is that the tailwinds that it propelled the economy forward that include a lot of fiscal stimulus from Congress and the presidents over two terms and eventually we're going to say higher retro rates those tailwinds are going away And so people are going to have to work And they're not necessarily going to have the backstops that the government had provided previously Really quickly here you talk about rising wages but are they keeping up with inflation What does this report tell us No they aren't but they are making some progress And we'll get an update on the consumer price index next week The last read on that was a year over year gain of 7% And this report we were up a little more than 1% shy of that So it's called a wage gap as we like to say and that's a source of tension for consumers There's not much good to be said about burgeoning inflation that has been sustained as it has All right Mark thanks enjoy the weekend You too thank you Bank rate senior economic analyst Mark.
AP News Radio
Avenatti decides not to testify at trial vs. Stormy Daniels
"Michael Michael Michael Michael Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti says says says says he he he he won't won't won't won't testify testify testify testify at at at at his his his his trial trial trial trial on on on on charges charges charges charges he he he he cheated cheated cheated cheated porn porn porn porn star star star star stormy stormy stormy stormy Daniels Daniels Daniels Daniels out out out out of of of of nearly nearly nearly nearly three three three three hundred hundred hundred hundred thousand thousand thousand thousand dollars dollars dollars dollars in in in in book book book book proceeds proceeds proceeds proceeds Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti announced announced announced announced his his his his decision decision decision decision Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday in in in in Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan federal federal federal federal court court court court the the the the California California California California lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer who who who who became became became became well well well well known known known known representing representing representing representing Daniels Daniels Daniels Daniels in in in in twenty twenty twenty twenty eighteen eighteen eighteen eighteen in in in in her her her her legal legal legal legal fights fights fights fights against against against against them them them them president president president president Donald Donald Donald Donald Trump Trump Trump Trump says says says says he he he he chose chose chose chose not not not not to to to to testify testify testify testify because because because because prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors had had had had not not not not proven proven proven proven their their their their case case case case prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors say say say say Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti falsely falsely falsely falsely claim claim claim claim to to to to Daniels Daniels Daniels Daniels for for for for months months months months that that that that a a a a publisher publisher publisher publisher wasn't wasn't wasn't wasn't making making making making timely timely timely timely payments payments payments payments from from from from the the the the eight eight eight eight hundred hundred hundred hundred thousand thousand thousand thousand dollar dollar dollar dollar advance advance advance advance for for for for her her her her autobiography autobiography autobiography autobiography they they they they say say say say he he he he was was was was spending spending spending spending the the the the pay pay pay pay outs outs outs outs himself himself himself himself he he he he maintains maintains maintains maintains his his his his innocence innocence innocence innocence Julie Julie Julie Julie Walker Walker Walker Walker New New New New York York York York
WTOP
"avenatti" Discussed on WTOP
"Hutchinson The magic word from the governor's is give us flexibility hold us accountable but we know how to invest infrastructure and trust us and we want to partner with the administration The governor rests its case the government the rest is case that is against lawyer Michael avenatti who accused of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from porn star stormy Daniels avenatti is acting in his as his own attorney I'm looking forward to the jury hearing all of the evidence and rendering their verdict And again will that evidence include testimony from you I haven't decided yet This is CBS News Never miss a moment top news from 24/7 360 five Listen on air on Alexa and on the WTO p.m. 8 O three here on WTO P Monday night January 31st 2022 enticing its 30 could be down to 25 later Good evening I'm Dmitry sodas with the top stories we're following this hour we begin with one more big national story that was not included in CBS News Coronavirus vaccines for kids younger than 5 could be available far sooner than expected Possibly by the end of February under a plan that would lead to the potential authorization of a two shot regimen in the coming weeks This is people briefed on the situation speaking with The Washington Post tonight Pfizer and its partner BioNTech the manufacturers of the vaccine are expected to turn over to the Food and Drug Administration as early as tomorrow a request for emergency use authorization for the vaccine for kids 6 months to 5 years old older kids can already get the shot So the bottom line here is that we may have a vaccine for kids younger than 5 made by Pfizer available in about a month They're saying by the end of February 8 O four on.
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"Dot com slash law. Hopefully they're enjoying that lot of movies as we speak. It's a lot of fun. Don't miss it. Why don't you start us off Andrew? New patrons are the best patrons. So thank you to Robert pixley. I'm fast at sex. That's so good. Cake Meister, Margaret D John. To chill Tompkins to where no stranger to love, you know the rules and so do I to Lauren Brown, Patrick holding Ronald rumbaugh. Welcome back to Brian Betty. And thank you to Canadian James in Idaho. Well, that is God. A nice confluence of what happened. Did you fall down the map a little bit? Get back up and get out of there. Welcome aboard all of you. Thank you so much. And thank you to the CDC says take legal advice from a podcast. Not sure if that's a repeat or someone else had the same joke. Could be either really Heather tipton, Keras Ford, the quantum cue ball, Nick, dual. I will, too, get legal advice from podcasts. You're not the boss of me. John langdon generally bad advice, you gotta fight for your right to X part hey, that's funny. Left in TN on the twitters, Bill Gates no longer has any connection to Microsoft at all. Yeah, no, that's kind of an Andrew was wrong in new patient form. About that. And serious scoop. Thank you, new patrons. Bill Gates has no Microsoft stock. Wow. That's what surprised me. That would surprise me. I haven't checked that, but I don't think he's working on their behalf at all. You know what I mean? Don't think that's what I said. I think I said that it's probably still in his financial interest for Microsoft to do well. But he owns 1.3% of Microsoft. That's interesting. That's a low percent. I think it still adds up to a lot of money. I will take 1.3% of Microsoft. I just want to make that known. We have a little bonus I won't say Andrew is wrong, but some clarifications. In the patron thanks. Oh, no social this firm has ever failed the bar exam. No kidding. And now it's time for an exam that avenatti would not pass. Thomas takes the ethics exam. Somebody wrote in and suggested Thomas tries to be ethical has still been T three. So I love it. Thomas tries to be ethical. Yeah, T three B, I guess this is question number three, and we're kind of going to play this by ear in terms of how many of these things I need to answer, but here it goes. Let's see if I can outdo Michael avenatti by a landslide. An attorney represented a company that produces chemical products. Some of the waste products of a company's manufacturing processes are highly toxic and are reasonably certain to cause substantial bodily harm if disposed of improperly. The president of the company recently informed the attorney that a new employee had mistakenly disposed of the waste products in the ground behind the company plant, an area that is part of the source of the city's water supply. The attorney advised the president that the company could be civilly and criminally liable for negligence in lawsuits brought by persons harmed by the waste products. That sounds good. The attorney advised the president to immediately report the problem to city authorities. Fearful of adverse publicity, the president declined to do so. The attorney further advised the president that she believed the president's decision was immoral. The president continued to decline to report the matter. The attorney then informed the president that she was withdrawing from the representation and would inform the authorities herself immediately after withdrawing the attorney reported the company's conduct to the authorities. Is the attorney subject to discipline? A, yes, because the attorney received the information in confidence and was not permitted to reveal the information without the company's consent. B, yes, because the company's conduct was not intentional. C, no, because the attorney reasonably believed that the president was pursuing an imprudent and immoral course of conduct, or D, no, because the attorney reasonably believed that the company's disposal of the waste products was reasonably certain to cause substantial water. Interesting. This feels to me like a slightly harder question than the past three. Let's see if I can keep my streak alive. So I think some key facts here. Is that it seems to be like a PR decision. I think that might come into play. Let's see. So the president informed the attorney that they made this mistake and the waste products are going to the groundwater. Attorney advises the president that the company would be civilly and criminally liable for negligence in lawsuits brought by any person's harmed by the waste products. Okay, sure. The attorney advises the president to immediately report the problem to city authorities. Fearful of adverse publicity the president declined to do so. And then the attorney further advised the president that she believed the president's decision was immoral. That I don't, that's the part that I'm a little worried about. I don't remember, we've talked about these issues before, and I don't remember if that's enough. You know? I think it has to be something illegal. Merely immoral. I don't know, we'll see. That could be interesting. President continued to decline the report the matter. So then, the attorney informs the president that she's withdrawing from representation would inform the authority authorities herself and then immediately after withdrawing, attorney reports the conduct to the authorities. Okay. So, subject to discipline, yes, because the attorney received the information confidence and was not permitted to reveal the information without the company's consent. That's a weird in confidence. Is that like attorney client privilege? Weirdly sounds slightly different than attorney. It's not like, oh, I told you as a friend and confidence. It's like, no, you're my attorney. You know? It's weird that the language is not quite, it doesn't sound quite right. Yes, because the company's conduct was not intentional. I think that's can't possibly be the answer there. C no because the attorney reasonably believed that the president was pursuing an imprudent and immoral course of conduct. Tempting, tempting, imprudent any moral, though, that's the thing is just doesn't, it doesn't seem also that might be justification for her leaving. Like she may be able to justify leaving, but I don't know that that justifies the actual revealing of breaking of attorney client privilege. I think that's a solid elimination. I think C is attractive distractor. I think the answer is D no because the attorney reasonably believed that the company's disposal of the waste products was reasonably certain to cause substantial bodily harm. I think that's what we're talking about here when it comes to revealing attorney breaking attorney client privilege. I think that's the standard. Bodily harm, I believe, but I'm a little worried about this one. I think that there's a possibility it's a I think because I'm two for two with the obvious ethical answer..
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"You know, you always see that like, is that a threat and then the person will always be like, oh no, it's not a threat. It's just a, you know, does that all have any legal impact in this trial, like whether that question and his answer to it? So in my view, the effect that it has is in evaluating the witness testimony. So when you're trying to figure out who's telling the truth about which part here, you know, when somebody, when somebody has behaved when someone's communications are perfectly consistent with somebody who, you know, yeah, feels like they're being shaken down. It's harder to come back and say, oh, no, no. Like, you know, I'm going to credit this additional the opposing view. You're like, well, it sure didn't seem that way at the time, you know. So that's how I would evaluate that. Gotcha. So sadly, the news gods conspired to dump a bunch of great stories on us this week. We will have to wait until after this record to know the breakdown between avenatti across examining stormy Daniels. But I thought that that background would help. I'm not sure that it was even the stormy Daniels part that was the motivator here because I will tell you the witness he did get to cross examine in this trial was Judy Rick near. And that was the moment that he fired his public defenders. And said, no, I want to represent myself, was not as the prosecutors were about to call stormy Daniels. It was one witness before. It was when they were about to call Judy. So I think probably also wants a shot at Stormi, but I think it was, hey, I was able to run circles around Judy last time I bet I can do it again. Interesting. But are you saying we will get transcripts of this? No, we will get because it's federal court. Well, it seems like you had something from before. Oh yeah, no, what I have is people there watching the trial. I thought you had said, okay, my mistake. So we won't probably get transcripts, but we will get some reporting. We will get reporting. There will be a federal transcript that's going to take forever to get to get ordered. And what I was saying is there is no unlike many state courts. This is not televised. So right, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I hope he loses his all 7 of the cases against him. And thank you. And now it's time.
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"Be terrible for you and terrible for them. So why not make us do that? So you can do that to try to get a settlement. Yes, exactly right. Yeah, okay, but that's the part where you're like and also I am going to personally and also I'm going to head it internal investigation to make sure this doesn't happen again. And I haven't gotten to the true capital of that. All right. When Nike's lawyers said, I don't know that we need an internal investigation. Havana odd tape said, well, you could just pay me the 22 and a half million. So that's a real president, Michael, we need a Trump to fight trek out of it. So that is not this case. He was convicted, served two and a half years, again, mostly home detention. It is also not the California embezzlement case. This was also in federal court at the allegations there were that he took settlements meant for clients and spent them on himself. This guy sucks. And in that case, avenatti represented himself from the very beginning. And this is the connection here on the stormy Daniels part. And the key witness in the California case was former office manager for his law firm, Judy regnier. Okay, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that but Renoir. Well, I've known a regnier and it's all how the family decides to be renier, yeah, who knows. So Judy was there to testify about payments coming in, payments going out. And again, remember, this is the allegation was settlements came in particularly for old people and Michael avenatti skimmed money off the top, total people that the settlements haven't come in yet. Just really scumbag ory stuff. A banana represented himself his opening statement was this case is about math. This is about how you calculate what a client is due after their settlement is received. And the key issue that Michael avenatti again, apparently not without some talent as an actual lawyer, was able to elicit on cross examination from Judy from Judy. Was that the firm used a particular piece of software called tax and bookkeeping solutions. I don't know if you've ever seen that before. Tabs. They called it. And prosecutors had not given him the tabs data. Prosecutors said, look, this is really the first time you've asked about it, and he said, right, well, you know, it came up in cross examination. How am I going to impeach a witness that says the tabs data says I held onto all of this money? If you haven't given it to me. And the judge in that case declared a mistrial. And ordered the prosecutors to turn that information over to Michael avenatti, which they are in the process of doing and that case will be retry. So avenatti now is feeling like, hey man, I got myself a mistrial. I'm king of the world. And that brings us back to New York, where avenatti has been indicted for defrauding his clients, including stormy Daniels. And here, the principal allegations with respect to stormy Daniels are that he was funneling everything through his office and she got several advances for her book. And avenatti would say to her things like, oh no, that hasn't come in yet. They're just super slow with giving you your advances. And he had, in fact, taken the money and spent it already. Jeez. And so stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her book advance without her knowledge while pretending it hadn't got paid. Stormy day as up through and including when we were recording the show. Very sadly, stormy Daniels was still testifying on direct. It went two days longer than people expected. And she is a spectacularly good witness. Again, this is federal court, so no, no audio, so I'm relying on transcripts, but the transcripts are fantastic. Set up questions like, why didn't you have Michael avenatti signed the contract on your behavior? You know, he was your lawyer. He was your agent. You know, why didn't you have him sign it on your behalf? It's just like, because I know how to sign my own name and I sign all my own stuff. And what that does, so you laugh about it, but there are subsequent fake contracts that Michael avenatti steps signed on her bed. And you just remember stormy Daniels saying, I don't need my lawyer to sign my stuff for outside my own stuff. And you're like, yup, yes, she does. So he's trying to claim like, oh no, she had me do these things. You know, and you can see an avenatti's mind, right? Like, you know, write the story. I'm gonna be not a sophisticated porn star, like of course the lawyer signs everything for it. Right. Then they went through her text messages. So, and this concerned an instant where yet again, avenatti had set up crowdfunding, ostensibly for her legal fees using her name and you know leveraging the goodwill that he enjoyed at the time from the left of being the guy who was going to bring down Donald Trump. And so stormy texted him to say, I'm tired of finding shit out on Twitter, which by the way, really good complaint about your lawyer, right? And then he texted back, look, I get it, but we should figure out a soft landing because if you attack me publicly, it'll look bad for you. To which stormy Daniels texted back, is that a threat? Just so legal question. Yeah. How much does that matter?.
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"All right, next story, I love this. Another media story that was just very interesting that people wanted to hear about. There was a case where at will employees were being forced to not quit, even though you would think at will. It's right there in the name. They're being prevented from having a guilty bystander. Fantastic Seinfeld. And a lot of people ask us about this. So what happened here? This is an astonishing story to me. I think we may have gotten more emails, social media requests to cover the story than maybe anything in recent memory. A ton of hysteria, news articles using words like slavery, people talking about the judge and so I'm going to explain everything that happened, but I want to start by challenging the premise. That is, the idea that you could not imagine a circumstance under which an at will employee would be required by the court via injunction to do things, even though technically speaking they're free to leave their job. This hypothetical is super easy to imagine. Imagine, I don't know, Citibank, hires, you know, Dustin over here to run their IT department. Dustin runs the IT department and whatever and it's fine, but it kind of sucks working for Citibank and eventually like Google approaches him and they're going to offer him three times his salary and you know one day Dustin is just gets up and leaves. And he's like, okay, I'm an at will employee, a city bank that's been great, but peace, I'm out of here. I'm going to go work for Google. And then let's suppose Citibank discovers that the only person who knows how to turn on the computer software that enables people to access their bank accounts is Dustin. Well, Citibank is going to go into court and they are 100% going to get an injunction. It does it is like. Screw you guys. I'm outta here. Oh, I'm the only one with the password. Well, that's too bad. I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually. No, Citibank will go into court and get an injunction that will force Dustin to give them the password, turn on the computer software, and maybe even train like the new guy they've hired how to bring up that particular piece of software. That's interesting because, you know, it sort of strikes me as like the cruel door of unfettered capitalism, I guess, only swings one way. Like if you're going to screw over employee, that's fine as capitalism. It's at will. But if the company might have a problem, then all of a sudden, it's not just letter of the law. All of a sudden it's not just like, well, the contract specifies. You get to be like, yeah, but we're a big company and we hate this. So come over here. So I don't think it's interesting. I'm not saying it's wrong. It's just, you know? I do disagree with that take in one sense in terms of how power is allocated. But I would push back in another sense, which is the injunctive relief standards that we're talking about here are the interests of the public. The justification here would not be oh, we're going to have to pay right. The justification would be millions of consumers would be unable to access their bank account fair enough. So if you presented the court with the argument like, you know, this is just sucks for us at Citibank. We're going to have to put some weekends in. That's not going to get you the injunction. No. Okay. And in fact, okay, this is and I want to be very, very clear. This injunction was handed down on a Friday and reversed on a Monday. Yeah. And in that tiny amount of time, we had more emails. And I can explain exactly how that happened. But so first, I want to characterize it in the terms most favorable to theta care. And theta care is the evil operator in all of this. They're the ones who went to court and they got the TRO and it got reversed on Monday. Theta care is argument on Friday was this. We are a level two trauma center and this other company called Ascension that owns a hospital called saint Elizabeth hospital that's 7 miles away, went and poached our radiology team. Saint Elizabeth is a level three trauma center. And so the problem is, I need some more experience points. The lower levels are worse. The lower levels are better. So they're better. So, right, so the idea is that potential patients now having lost our radiology team, we might be in danger of losing our level two certification. And that means that the kind of patients that need level two trauma centers and not a level three center would now have to travel much greater distances. And that would be super bad for those patients. Because they're undergoing severe trauma. And so what we want is a temporary restraining order that says, hey, radiology team don't leave while we figure this out. And that's what they got on Friday. And again, I'm going to explain how that got unwound. But I want to make the case that it was not an unreasonable request. And maybe not even an unreasonable grant, right? Like the whole purpose of a temporary restraining order is to preserve the status quo is to say, okay, you know what? You're right. This seems like a situation in which severely ill people might suffer an undue harm and we think that outweighs a day's worth of employees getting to go where they want to go. Now, over the weekend, a bunch of information additional information was adduced. And the other company Ascension went back into court on Monday and successfully got the TRO dissolved and said there's not going to be any preliminary injunction because they introduced some additional facts. Biggest fact that I saw in exactly zero of the articles that were full of outrage from Friday is that this covered 7 people. Like the headlines I was, I was thinking, hundreds, thousands of people were, you know, being held to their contract now. So what happened was, and again, Ascension denies that they secretly poached these folks. I think they're probably lie. That's probably like. The idea is they say, look, we posted these jobs publicly. The first person who came in worked for theta care they said in the tell their friends. And then eventually it happens. Right. The state actually that happens all the time. We have these different teams and different units and somebody leaves and they're like, yeah, I know, I know some good workers who we could also get exactly poached everybody. Yeah, and so I think they probably did poach, right? But again, shouldn't matter that will employees. We're talking about four radiology texts and three nurses. So no doctors. We're talking about the supporting team. The radiology team. And then they point out that not only are they going to a facility that is less than 7 miles away. They're both in the what I'm sure is the sprawling metropolis of Nina, Wisconsin. But in addition to that, there are level two trauma centers that are a 20 minute drive or 5 minute helicopter ride away in Green Bay. So the saint Elizabeth's argument was, hey, we're right around the corner..
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"And when I say that, I mean one of the things that was a topic of discussion at my debate with Justin walker was Justin walker's constant reassurances when he was in conservative media outlets on Fox News and speaking to fellow conservatives that, quote, Brett Kavanaugh will not go wobbly. And so yes, these folks have, by the way, I mean Justin walker was like in kindergarten when David souter was nominated to the court, which is a terrifying thought. There is a long institutional right wing memory of, hey, I'm thinking of the language that rod blakey of it's used in describing Barack Obama's Senate, right? Like I got this effing thing here and it's ethic gold in it and I'm gonna take advantage of it, right? Yeah. And that's what Republican right wing orchestrators have been agitating their presidents to do since time immemorial at least since Richard Nixon. So briar wrote this kind of book and said, I'm definitely not going to retire. And here we are looking at well, I don't know if he said that. He just absolutely answered questions in such a way as to suggest that he would not retire as part of a political process. And here the Democrats are staring down the barrel of possibly losing one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections. And Steven breyer has done the right thing. I think that was him trying to sanitize the whole he's trying to make his whole book tour and all this bullshit he's been doing that's been really tiresome the last, I don't know a year. Is him trying to make the claim that something we all know is true isn't true, that the Supreme Court isn't just a political thingy and that it's actually healthy and it's all fine. And I just think as part of that, he did a bunch of end. I'm not retiring as a political thingy. That wasn't exactly the same as him saying I'm never retiring. You're going to have to pry the court for my cold gavel from this year. But yes, anyway, good news. I'm so glad he made the right decision. Are you gonna go like four for four in predicting the next Supreme Court Justices? So yeah, a lot of folks have asked, it was super easy to predict that Trump nominees because I would just ask myself, who would Leonard Leo nominate and that was it? Although I got to take credit because there was one that I got right that you didn't because I was like, no, he'll do the most evil thing and you're like, I think he'll do the second most evil thing. And I think I was right. Is that even coming back? That was Amy Coney, but a 100%. But as a show, we're really good at these predictions. So let's nail it. So as you point out on the campaign trail, Biden promised to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court. By the way, that has brought the racists out in force with respect to that. And it's doubly galling when they quote Martin Luther King, you know, why aren't we judging them by the content? And I have already gone over the numbers. I will tell you as part of the Cummings and going segment that I do on cleanup on all 45. The degree to which Joe Biden's nominees have been genuinely diverse up and down the judiciary the up and down the executive branch is it's really inspiring. And it's inspiring in a way that I would not have expected from a president who's a 512 year old white guy. Add to that, the record breaking speed, too. Yeah. It finally feels like we're fighting fire with fire in terms of the federal judiciary. Doesn't it? It finally feels like we're like, all right, we're late to the party. We brought the knife to the gunfight. We got shot several times, but we sort of our life and now we have a gun. Now we also have a gun. Who would have thought that our secret weapon would have been? Yeah. All right, but I'm gonna go through what this is not a hot take based on that. My instant reaction was a judge catan Shi Brown Jackson, who was elevated to the D.C. circuit just last year. A rockstar, unimpeachably talented, no doubt about it well qualified, will earn a well qualified rating from the ABA. But does she know what emotion eliminates if I were to ask that? Not at just a, I will say that. That just sort of feels like the FrontRunner choice. I think it will come down to either ketanji Brown Jackson or the youngest person who has been floated on the rumored like I already like it already. Leon's recruiter who is 45, she is young enough for me. I know. It should be Morgan to work it straight. Can we do like the gattaca thing where we know genetically know how long they're going to be the next leg of this battle as we start genetically determining who's actually going to live to be a 105? I want three clones of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. On the Supreme Court at all time. And so I'm gonna make two predictions here. So I think Brown Jackson and leandra Kruger talk a little bit about her in a minute, but I want to frame so I think it will come down to those two. And I think if as it appears to be leaning kroeger, what you will see is criticism on the left of her not being the leftmost candidate. Based on what? What is that based on? Based on the position that she has occupied on the California state Supreme Court. So if she is in fact the nominee or it looks like she's going to be an you know we will do a deep dive on her jurisprudence. But I will tell you I expect that it will be classified as sort of a well, do you want the most liberal of the two picks, which would be Jackson? Or do you want the younger of the two picks, which would be Kruger either way? I mean, you can not measure the distance apart that even the swing vote on the California Supreme Court. Which, by the way, is a very, very liberal court. Is from the current composition of the Supreme Court. So I don't think both would be eminently qualified. I think both will be fine in terms of Democrats. Now here I'm assuring my fellow liberals Kruger will not go wobbly. I think that both are eminently qualified both will not disappoint as Supreme Court nominees. But liberals we love to eat our own. So well, here's what I'll say about that. I don't know what calculation will be made with, you know, Manchin, or if anybody wants to be a troublemaker here, Manchin or cinema. It seems that they have not at all done that with the federal judiciary. But nope, also, people don't pay attention to that as much. So I could imagine that this will be a way more headline grabbing thingy. Someone like sinema or Manchin could want to make hay with that or whatever. Manchin Manchin and cinema both voted and were the key votes to advance Kentucky Brown Jackson to the D.C. circuit. But again, she said, we're also make the coded move. To bypass the filibuster when it came to raising the debt ceiling, but not voting rights on Martin Luther King day. So just no, I hear you. I think the odds are pretty good that they'll go with it. But the point I was gonna make is, as liberals, as people on the left, as Democrats, I really don't think we ought to fuss too much about a couple points left or center on the third justice of you know what I mean?.
Opening Arguments
"avenatti" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"Close we came to this the insurrection being successful. And then she said, evidence points to a conspiracy between GOP officials across the country to undermine election results and prevent Biden's Electoral College votes from being counted on January 6th. And they don't have jurisdiction like you would have to seek comedy from other states and it would just be a mess to try and do this at the state level. So the fact that she is satisfied or at least seem satisfied at the moment seems a pretty strong indication that federal indictments are coming. We can talk a lot more on that, but we have a huge show. We do. We do. I will bite my tongue and we'll talk more about that another time. And one more quick announcement. It's that time of the month again, Andrew, where we have a live YouTube Q&A. As always, the questions come from patrons only. But everybody can come join. It's a lot of fun, you hang out in the chat. We interact with you and we answer Andrew answers and hours worth of bonus questions so much fun. That's going to be Wednesday the second Groundhog Day. I think we're going to have to watch groundhog somehow incorporate Groundhog Day into it. And that'll be Groundhog Day. Wednesday second at 4 p.m. Pacific 7 p.m. eastern, be there be square. You don't want to miss it. Down. Down. Time for the good news, Andrew. Breyer is retiring. I am so glad it's one of those like, okay, it doesn't mean anything particularly good is happening, although I think it'll be awesome for some new blood in that Supreme Court Biden made the very awkward promise to nominate a black woman during the campaign, but also I'll take it. That's awesome, you know? It's kind of weird that he did that and it's kind of, I don't know if that was the best way to do it. However, let's all take him up on that. That sounds great. So we should get somebody really cool, but it's also more of a celebration of something really bad not happening. Yeah. But that's, you know, that's kind of where we are. The old OA truism like it sucks fighting holding actions, but it sucks worse to lose them. So I like the idea that possibly Stephen breyer was trolling us all along. We have a high level patron who's got a change their screen name now, right? Their name is we wish a happy all Stephen breyers retire now. And you're gonna get your wish. Oh, by the way, you're not only gonna get your wish, but the resignation letter is, I intend this decision to resign to take effect when the court recesses for the summer this year, which is typically in late June or early July, assuming that by then my successor has been nominated and confirmed. I like it, okay. So not stuck in case of some shenanigans, something crazy happens in the Senate. We're not committed to having to retire. Yeah, that's right. I want to tell you that those shenanigans, I can not come up with what those shenanigans would be. I'm going to talk about how I could one of either mansion or cinema changing parties and being horrible. It's not likely I'm just saying it's not. I'm sorry. I wouldn't call that shenanigans. Oh, that get out. Yeah. You're right. The reason I say that is I'm going to talk about two potential shenanigans that were instantly floated one in Time Magazine and the other just sort of on the Internet. Once again, Andrew, I'll save you all a lot of work. If there was anything the Republicans could do, we would have done it when the Republicans were doing this, but there you go. Amy Coney Barrett and Gorsuch have an all of them, I guess. So first, part of this coming is a super pleasant surprise is that Stephen breyer just wrote a book called the authority of the court, meaning the Supreme Court, and the peril of politics in that book he says, proposals have been made to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices. I aim to make those whose reflective instincts may favor significant structural or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court packing, think long and hard before embodying those changes in law. Oh, we have, actually. Yeah, I changed my view on this one. You can hear me on the David pakman show making the case for not packing the court in 2017. So respectfully, mister justice, I have done so. And then if the public comes to see judges as merely politicians in robes, it's confidence in the courts and the rule of law itself can only decline. He's just describing what already exists. But as a cautionary tale, you're like, we're already there, man. We did it. It's done. Stephen Brown, it would be really terrible if we had some kind of incompetent president maybe a game show host who took ideological rubes in their 30s. Is this a book he intended to send back in a time machine, but the time machine failed? 'cause that would explain a lot. They've meant to send it back to ten years ago. You'd be like, oh, wow, what a pression book. If you sent the time machine back to 1965, maybe. I mean, seriously, the right wing has been complaining about the court not being political enough for through my parents lifetimes, right? Like the criticisms of Richard Nixon for basically failing to do what subsequent Republican presidents would do. You can still read criticisms in print from George H. W. Bush nominating David suitor to the bench in 1991..
AP News Radio
Once allies, Stormy Daniels and Avenatti face off at trial
"Once once once once allies allies allies allies stormy stormy stormy stormy Daniels Daniels Daniels Daniels and and and and Michael Michael Michael Michael Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti or or or or set set set set to to to to face face face face off off off off at at at at trial trial trial trial in in in in New New New New York York York York the the the the porn porn porn porn star star star star who who who who catapulted catapulted catapulted catapulted herself herself herself herself and and and and often often often often not not not not to to to to defame defame defame defame with with with with lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits lawsuits against against against against former former former former president president president president trump trump trump trump will will will will have have have have a a a a starring starring starring starring role role role role in in in in court court court court when when when when prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors try try try try to to to to prove prove prove prove that that that that the the the the California California California California lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer cheated cheated cheated cheated her her her her of of of of three three three three hundred hundred hundred hundred thousand thousand thousand thousand dollars dollars dollars dollars in in in in book book book book proceeds proceeds proceeds proceeds her her her her testimony testimony testimony testimony will will will will be be be be pivotal pivotal pivotal pivotal for for for for prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors prosecutors trying trying trying trying to to to to prove prove prove prove Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti Avenatti engaged engaged engaged engaged in in in in wire wire wire wire fraud fraud fraud fraud and and and and aggravated aggravated aggravated aggravated identity identity identity identity theft theft theft theft to to to to keep keep keep keep from from from from giving giving giving giving his his his his client client client client money money money money he'd he'd he'd he'd received received received received from from from from her her her her publisher publisher publisher publisher Daniels Daniels Daniels Daniels is is is is not not not not expected expected expected expected to to to to testify testify testify testify until until until until Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday at at at at the the the the earliest earliest earliest earliest Julie Julie Julie Julie Walker Walker Walker Walker New New New New York York York York
Bloomberg Radio New York
"avenatti" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Coming up in traffic first Michael Barr with what else is going on in New York and around the world Michael Thank you very much Nathan New York City is preparing to lay to rest A rookie police officer killed last week funeral services for 22 year old New York City police officer Jason Rivera are being finalized Rivera and officer wilbert Moore were shot Friday night while answering a call about an argument between a woman and her adult son in Harlem Maura was wounded and is fighting for his life The man police say shot them also was wounded by a third responding officer New York City mayor Eric Adams vows to take action to address not just the latest police shooting but crime in general This is a sea of crime that's being fed by many rivers And we have to damn each one of those rivers And we have been unsuccessful to do so throughout the years These crimes did not start during my administration They have been here for far too long in many parts of our community Bayer Adams on CNN also mentioned another high profile crime that occurred more than a week ago A 40 year old woman on a subway platform in Times Square Michelle go was shoved in front of an incoming train by a mentally ill homeless man General lieber is the CEO of the MTA The relatively small number of mentally ill homeless But their impact on the subway system and on the ridership and God forbid on safety is disproportionate The MTA's general lieber says the fact that it happened in one of the most iconic spots emphasizes the problem New York City faces Opening statements began today in the federal trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights as Derek Chauvin penned his neck to the street All three are charged for failing to provide Floyd with medical care The adult film actress who made lawyer Michael avenatti famous four years ago will be the key witness in a New York courtroom prosecutors are trying to prove avenatti cheated stormy Daniels of $300,000 in book proceeds opening statements a scheduled for today Jury selection begins today and New York for former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times Palin accuses the times of defamation over a 2017 editorial Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries Michael Barr this is Bloomberg Nathan Thank you Michael Coming up to 6 ten on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update with John Stanton Nathan has there ever been a more exciting NFL playoff game bills and chiefs just in the final two minutes of regulation they scored 25 points at three lead changes twice the bills thought they had won with a Josh Allen touchdown pass to Gabriel Davis who caught four on the night but they kept leaving Kansas City time even when buffalo scored a go ahead TD with only 13 seconds to go enough time For Patrick Mahomes two completions got the chiefs in position for a game tying field goal they went to overtime Kansas City won the coin flip and then the game Mahomes looks to throw it pump faking right side he wants it to come back and as good by Kelsey touchdown One of the greatest students in the history of the National Football League Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelce on a push fade comeback and the chiefs have won this incredible divisional playoff game 42 to 36 G's radio mahomes and Allen a classic quarterback duel they combined for 60 completions over 700 yards 7 touchdowns and a 137 rushing yards It's mahomes and the chiefs will host Cincinnati for the AFC championship The rams.
WTOP
"avenatti" Discussed on WTOP
"To you by long fence 20% off savings on fences Dax and pavers go to long fence dot com and schedule your free estimate today It's two 11 A man is in custody following a police involved shooting in Baltimore Christmas evening Officials say they initially got the call about a man who was going through a behavioral crisis at a home on Crawford avenue When officers got there they say the 59 year old man showed them a gun and started firing at them Officers returned the fire hitting the man He was taken into custody transported to hospital in critical condition none of the officers was injured shooting remaining under investigation A man was shot and killed in front of his family on Christmas Eve It happened on saint barnabas road in prince George's county just after four 30 Friday afternoon 30 year old Danny Kelly junior was driving northbound on saint barnabas road with his three children and his girlfriend They were making their way to a holiday center with a vehicle pulled up next to Kelly's SUV and started shooting Police found Kelly unresponsive in the driver's seat He died a short time later at the hospital No one else in Kelly's car was injured detectives are looking into whether this might have been road rage Michael avenatti is likely to testify at his trial over stormy Daniels book proceeds Lawyers representing Michael avenatti told a New York judge in a letter Thursday there is a strong likelihood avenatti will testify in his own defense in a case where he's accused of swindling porn star stormy Daniels out of book deal proceeds The attorneys mentioned the testimony in the letter asking a judge to postpone the January 24th trial for four months Avenatti who became well known in 2018 when he represented Daniels in lawsuits against then president Donald Trump is under house arrest in California After being convicted on charges of trying to extort tens of millions of dollars from Nike He also faces retrial on federal charges alleging he stole millions of dollars in settlement money from clients I'm Mike Gracia It's two 12 a movie studio has ended a decades long debate about the movie die hard I get it there are guns explosions even death but die hard is and always has been a Christmas movie Okay we can't finish that But 20th century studios which released the film has ended the annual argument with a revamped trailer This Christmas is a time of miracle is so deaf good chair Yet ready to jingle some bells And deck the halls.
AP News Radio
Avenatti Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison for Extortion
"A federal judge has sentenced California lawyer Michael Avenatti two two and a half years in prison michelada nadie rose to fame representing stormy Daniels in two thousand and eighteen lawsuits against former president Donald Trump Americans deserve to know the truth about their elected leaders his political aspirations evaporated in twenty nineteen when prosecutors charged him with fraud saying he was enjoying a celebrity lifestyle while cheating clients out of millions of dollars and failing to pay his taxes now he's been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trying to extort up to twenty five million dollars from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity in a statement former client Gerry Franklin junior Los Angeles youth basketball league organizer said the lawyer's actions devastated him financially professionally and emotionally the judge wrote that evidence showed up in IT devices approach to Nike that was designed to enrich himself rather than address his client's objectives I've been already faces a separate trial next year in Manhattan stormy Daniels has alleged he cheated her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a book deal I'm Jennifer king
AP News Radio
Michael Avenatti Faces Sentencing in Nike Extortion Scheme
"An attorney who once sparred with then president trump will be sentenced today on criminal fraud charges Michael Avenatti was convicted on charges that he tried to extort up to twenty five million dollars from Nike when he represented a youth basketball league organizer upset that Nike had ended its league sponsorship the U. S. probation department recommends an eight year prison term Evan Adams lawyers want six months in prison and a year of home detention Avenatti also faces trials later this year in Los Angeles on fraud charges and next year in New York where he's charged with cheating is former client porn star stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars Avenatti represented Daniels and twenty eighteen in lawsuits against trump I'm my company
American Greed Podcast
"avenatti" Discussed on American Greed Podcast
"That everyone finds out the truth. Stormy daniels had alleged that she had an affair with donald. Trump trump denies the affair but through his personal attorney. Michael cohen trump strikes a nondisclosure agreement with daniels for one hundred thirty thousand dollars. But she wanted to go to the press. In two thousand eighteen. things had changed donald trump. And whether or not he had done wrong. Things were very much in the news but she was limited by this. Hush money agreement acting on daniels behalf. Ever nadia attacked legitimacy the nondisclosure agreement because among other things it was unsigned by trump. Who allegedly used the alias. David denison because evidently the president did not sign the agreement because he wanted to be in a position where he would have deniability white. Who co host the podcast. All the president's lawyers says of a noddy is a virtuoso at working the media joining us now is the lawyer representing stormy daniels. This is about the extent that mr cohen and the president have gone to intimidate this woman to silence her so the benefit of his approach. Was that it really. No longer mattered. Ultimately happened in the cakes everything she could possibly want to say about. The relationship about the president of the united states is willingness to pay one hundred thirty thousand dollars in hush money adult actress. All that was out. Were you physically attracted to him now. Not at all now. Did you want to have sex with. But i didn't. I didn't say no. I'm not a victim. I'm not. It was entirely consensual. Oh yes so you could not force. The horseback into the barn does even know the law. He's a thug friend is wrong. Thank you in a lot of respects. He was the perfect foil for donald trump. Because he was a lot like him he would say pithy comments. It makes the nixon tapes look like a church picnic. He got right in the middle of it. We were never going to participate in any cover-up he was a fighter. Yes it was an absolute disaster for the president so he became overnight sensation a liberal folk hero. I mean people really loved michael al-banadi for taking on the president tonight. I want to speak with you about the fight. For the soul of our republic of anarchy comes inaugur two thousand eighteen when he barnes storms iowa and a high profile. Speech flirt with the idea of replacing his arch enemy when they go. Low is say we hit harder. Do you plan to run for president. We're gonna see how people in new hampshire respond and then ultimately going to make a decision though of nutty seems to be flying high person who worked produce company says his wings are made of wax. It's like how could you possibly expect to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. This dude couldn't even run a small coffee chain in a city that love coffee. Manati lawyers are two page summary of coverage of his presidential ambitions. Comparing his visit to iowa with barack obama's in two thousand six and quoting supporters saying. I haven't been this excited since. Jfk the public chest. Thumping privately of anonymous finances are a mess. According to his longtime office manager qi will later testify that his firm is hemorrhaging money. Unfortunately with a lot of people do as they get out in front of their skis a lot. They have a good month or a good year and they make an awful lot of money and suddenly. They have an italian sports car in the garage of a ninety. Each cash and federal indictment accused him of stealing from clients including nearly three hundred thousand dollars from stormy daniels. The southern district is alleging. That michael avenue helped stormy daniels negotiate a book deal and then when the payments came due for that book deal instead of giving them the stormy daniels. Michael doughty took them put them into his client trust account and paid himself. All the while lulling stormy on the money's on its way the money's on its way when allegedly ended already been paid and spent and it's not just his most famous client. That avenue is accused of leasing indictments say he victimizes the most helpless to in two thousand twelve. A man named jeffrey johnson is locked up in l. A. county jail for a crime. He didn't commit during that period of time. She was depressed and attempted suicide on two occasions. In both suicide attempts johnson jumps of balcony to the concrete floor below the first time he avoided major injury but the second time he breaks his back. Kim severed his spinal cord to his paralyzed from the waist down. He'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. During the period of time is in jail. He's abused by the deputies so he has had a very very difficult life. And we're doing our very best right now to help him like mr. Kelly had told you my name is jeffrey johnson. Dan callahan is the lawyer who now the judge but back in two thousand twelve johnson had hired michael abernathy ever nutty shoes. La county for negligence in allowing johnson to attempt suicide in full view of the guards. What actually he did a fine job. He recovered a settlement. And that's where things broke down. This is a copy of the check that the county of los angeles issued any amount of four million dollars after getting a settlement in january of two thousand fifteen. He told the client several lies. He told the client that has the money would come in over ten years and be paid quarterly. That was a lie. Miss robin ati had the payment. Within five days he told mr johnson the settlement would be confidential. He couldn't tell anybody that was a lot. In fact the four million dollar settlement was approved by the board of supervisors and posted on its website. So what happened was he withheld the money from mr johnson for a period of four years. Always leaving him on saying it's coming it's coming. But meanwhile he made periodic payments to mr johnson between nine hundred and one thousand nine hundred dollars basically monthly for a total of one hundred twenty four thousand dollars and mr johnson better. He believed entrusted misr of nadi while presenting himself as a champion of the downtrodden with our country under an unprecedented assault by a con man. Who fights only for himself was allegedly doing the very thing he railed against and degrades the vulnerable and the powerless ivan. Naughty has been charged with ten counts of wire fraud. In the case of jeffrey johnson and three other clients he has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial ever now. He's lawyer says in part. The government allegations are categorically false. The government fails to account for all of the money. That was spent for.
American Greed Podcast
"avenatti" Discussed on American Greed Podcast
"And so because of that my editor and i were becoming a little bit skeptical and i mean there were glowing profiles of him in the washington. Post and in the new york. Times that alluded to some of his business dealings. We wanted to see what was really going on with him behind closed. Doors watt exchange is now a podcast. I'm brian sullivan. Join me as we hit the biggest money stories from around the world breaking down the risks and rewards of global. Trade the news. You need to know what real world actionable advice and even a little fun and unique content. You won't get anywhere else like the most random but it's thing you'll hear all day subscribe to the worldwide exchange podcast. Today mike. Eleven naughty has a need for speed. His ride is a ferrari fiber. He has even driven in the legendary race on his website. He didn't have a business suit. He was clothed dinner racy suit. Here's this lawyer that wins these multimillion dollar verdicts women. Find him attractive reporter regulations. She's never seen a lawyer. Like mike. eleven audi. I didn't really know what to make of him and she has a gut feeling that. Perhaps things aren't what they appear to be taking purchase in two thousand thirteen of struggling. Coffee chain tolleys abernathy teams up with. Tv's dr patrick dempsey of grey's anatomy fame to buy tallies out of bankruptcy in seattle. It's a feel good story. Robertson puentes is a former store manager when we heard that patrick dempsey was descending from the heavens to help us out so we heard that he and this lawyer from la we're going to swoop in and buy tolis feel a tremendous responsibility to this company to my employees so we are very optimistic but seven months later we start with breaking news actor. Patrick dempsey has pulled out of the ownership group. Tellies coffee empty says ebonite. He didn't live up to his promise of having enough cash to run tellies and instead secretly saddled the company with high interest debt the two partners eventually settled at biz agreement with terms. Undisclosed dempsey declined to speak with american read. It was a very abrupt. That patrick dempsey left right out of the gates had raising eyebrows about michael nadi. He flat out did not know what he was doing. David node is a lawyer. Who represents when of tallies landlord kemper development after a bitter dispute involving unpaid rent and contractors leans nolde client eventually win several judgment against tony's holding up these totally one point one million dollars collecting on those judgments against avenues. Companies proves to be difficult nolde says and he soon finds himself in cat-and-mouse game of where's michael's money. We would send people down to buy a cup of coffee and write a check for three dollars and fifty two cents. Because that's what a tall manila 'cause and they would write a check. Why i wanted to see where that check was deposited because then we go on bank at night and the very next day we have somebody garnished at bank account down at the store level support days notices a sudden change in his policy. We were abruptly instructed to stop taking daily cash deposits to our normal. Us bank accounts and instead of take them to a different bank for bank of america. The attitude though the speculation he was having his take cash to other bank accounts to avoid garnishment. The government agreed federal. Indictments accused of nadia boeing. The irs five point two million dollars prosecutors allege not he is skimming state and federal tax withholdings taken from every employee's paycheck that employer has an obligation to immediately turn that over to the government. There's no gray area you have to turn it over in a criminal indictment. Prosecutors say of a nutty has multiple bank accounts and he tweets the names of the shell companies that own tallies in cages. The i n the employer advocation numbers these tricks. Defense eight make his money harder to track allowing benatti day. One step ahead of the tax man. Michael likes his money. And michael knows where his money is. And where the money going. According to federal indictments of the five point two million dollars. That should have gone to the government. Two point five million when to his law firm two hundred thousand dollars went to pay rent at avenue. These newport beach home and every time we we saw race car we see tolleys brandon all over this race car so we knew that a lot of the money was supporting his racing. Meanwhile tallies is paying its bills and vendors. Stop supplying copy beams. He served coffee for as long as we could. We served every last being and then once we were done then we didn't know what else to do other than close the store because no one could get a hold of avenue so we were just like okay. I guess we'll i guess we'll go home now. It's around this time. In march two thousand and eighteen ninety hitches his wagon to a porn star stormy and once that story broke nationally atty all but disappeared from the company. He he just did everybody and he he just let the stores shudder and let hundreds of people lose their jobs as the storage close cifuentes sends internal emails from tallies to a reporter at the seattle times they result in this expose. Cifuentes is fired from tallies for publicizing internal documents avenarius ultimately declined american greece's request for an interview but an emails to us. He called the government allegations baseless and ridiculous. He also says that knows nothing about me or the facts. American greed might as well have interviewed. The easter bunny and santa claus at ninety also says that was fired for theft. He told people that. I was fired for stealing money which is easily disproven american. Greed asked of anita provide evidence to back up his claim that he did not do as denies the allegation and shared with american greed documents relating to his termination. There is mentioned of the leaky males but nothing relating to the dude projected so hard if he projected any harder he could open a movie theater leg accusing other people being thieves and fraud. That kind of stuff. It's like do no. No no no. No it's you. That's the problem. We're what exchange is now a podcast. Brian sullivan join me. As we hit the biggest money stories from around the world breaking down the risks and rewards of global. Trade the news. You need to know. What real world actionable advice and even a little fun and unique content. You won't get anywhere else like the most random but it's thing you'll hear all day subscribe to the worldwide exchange podcast. Today michael luvin nowadays career rockets into the stratosphere in two thousand eighteen when he takes on the case of stephanie clifford. Better known as stormy daniels..
American Greed Podcast
"avenatti" Discussed on American Greed Podcast
"Lawyer representing stormy daniels. Minardi gained fame waging alert legal battle against donald trump on behalf of an adult film star. What the agreement was illegal from the it was all a ruse designed to shut my client. He was a fighter. He commanded the screen. He was fantastic. Tv friend is thank. You have a naughty. Even considered a run for the white house himself to replace the president. He calls a frog with our country under an unprecedented assault man. He became this overnight. Sensation liberal folk hero. But the feds say this hero is no stranger to shady behavior prosecutors allege. He stole millions from a pair of pliers. I am appalled by the conduct of mr avenue. The accused him of fleeting stormy. Daniels key needs fame. He needs money. One begets the other of the president's most vocal critics faces new trouble tonight and as ever nadi runs toward the camera. The feds clamped one of their own and captured a criminal. Shakedown of the world's biggest shoe company. American greed has that tape. A few million dollars doesn't move the needle for me. Where does zealous advocacy stop. And where does criminality begin. Laura senate begins when you try to force someone to hire game with what man would risk the profession that puts shoes on the feet of his children. I'm not continuing to play game..
The Erick Erickson Show
Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins
"I WanNa read you a headline from the Washington Post out this morning Tom Cotton. That's the senator from Arkansas. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a corona virus conspiracy theory that was already debunked Senator Tom. Cotton repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a corona virus is connected to research into disease ravaged epicenter of China. Cotton referenced a laboratory in the city. The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory in an interview on Fox News Sunday morning futures. He said the lab was near a market. Some scientists initially thought was a starting point for the viruses spread. We don't know where it originated and we have to get to the bottom of that. We also know that just a few miles away from that. Food Market is China's only biosafety level four Super Laboratory that researches infectious diseases yet cotton acknowledged. There's no evidence of the disease originated at the lab instead he suggested it's necessary to ask Chinese authorities about the possibility. No we don't have evidence. The disease originated there but because of China's duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says. China right now is not giving us any evidence. Cotton is referring to a well-known lab in Wuhan a Cellular Level Biosafety Level Four facility with a high level of operational security that works on researching dangerous pathogens in response to cotton's remarks as well as in previous interview with the Washington Post. Numerous experts dismissed the possibility. There's absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus which engineered said a professor at Rutgers Vivid Narang Associate Professor at. Mit says it's highly unlikely. The general population was exposed. It's a skipping logic to say it's a bio weapon that the Chinese deployed intentionally deployed or even unintentionally deployed. That's not what cotton say. The British publication. The Daily Mail was one of the first to suggest a connection between the corona virus and the laboratory wad later. The Washington Times ran a story into that virus may have originated in lab. The Chinese ambassador has rejected the idea. It's true a lot is still unknown. But it's very harmful. It's dangerous to stir up suspicion. So let's review the headline is Tom. Cotton KEEPS REPEATING CORONA virus conspiracy theory. That was already debunked. Can anybody tell me who in this debunked it a professor at? Mit says it's highly unlikely. A professor at Rutgers says the possibility that it was deliberately released can be firmly excluded and the Chinese ambassador himself says there are still a lot of unknowns so who debunked who to bunk. Tom Cotton can anybody tell me in the story from the Washington Post? Who DEBUNK Tom Cotton? Because I'm not seeing that anybody has debunked Tom Cotton Maria. The situation
Jay Talking
Michael Avenatti Is Convicted in Nike Extortion Trial
"A nadie the lawyer who attempted to take president trump to court could now face decades in prison after a jury found him guilty of trying to extort millions of dollars from the Nike sports company CBS's chip Reid has that OpenID rocketed to fame two years ago was the attorney for porn star stormy Daniels and her lawsuits against president trump but his meteoric rise was matched only by the speed of his catastrophic fall your jury found him guilty of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike by threatening to go public with claims that the shoe company was illegally paying high school basketball players the verdict speaks volumes he's
WTOP 24 Hour News
New York: Attorney Michael Avenatti Convicted Of Trying To Extort Nike
"The former attorney for porn star stormy Daniels has been found guilty of trying to blackmail Nike prosecutors say Michael Levin ID threaten Nike by saying he would expose their involvement in college basketball scandals CBS news correspondent chip Reid commonality has been held behind bars since January for violating his bail conditions as attorneys say he's reportedly in the same solitary confinement cell that held el Chapo the Mexican drug lord they say he's being treated like a caged animal of an ID is facing up to forty years in
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Avenatti found guilty of trying to extort Nike
"Michael I have an idea of the former attorney for porn star stormy Daniels has been found guilty of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike prosecutors said have an Audi threaten to use his media access to hurt Nike's reputation and stock price unless the company paid him up to twenty five million dollars of an ID used his fame as Daniel's attorney to dominate the spotlight as he excoriated president trump for allegedly having an affair with Daniels and then paying her to
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Avenatti found guilty of trying to extort Nike
"A lawyer who fought president trump in court has himself been convicted a federal jury in Manhattan found Michael on the not guilty of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike prosecutors say either not a threat to use his media access to her Nike's reputation and stock price unless the apparel company paid him up to twenty five million dollars I would have these lawyers countered that he was following the wishes of an amateur youth basketball league director who wanted him to force Nike to fire corrupt executives and fix its culture the lawyer gained fame by representing adult film star stormy Daniels in a lawsuit to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement in which the actor had promised not to discuss her alleged affair with trump trump denied that
John Batchelor
Michael Avenatti convicted in Nike extortion case
"Michael I'm in on the the attorney who represented pornstar stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against president trump is possibly going to jail after he was found guilty and extortion case against
Mark Levin
Michael Avenatti convicted in Nike extortion case
"Up Michael have an ID the attorney who represented porn star stormy Daniels lawsuit against president trump is possibly going to prison after he was found guilty and extortion case against
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Michael Avenatti is convicted of trying to extort Nike
"Attorney Michael Evan RD has been convicted of trying to extort Nike Michael of an IT gained fame by representing the adult film actress stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against president trump have an ID is now a convicted felon after a federal court jury here in New York I've been guilty of trying to extort twenty five million dollars from Nike have an ID faces up to forty two years in prison but he is already in custody have an ID faces another trial here on charges he defrauded Daniels out of proceeds from her book and in may he is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles on charges he defrauded clients there aren Kutcher ski ABC
AP News Radio
Michael Avenatti is convicted of trying to extort Nike
"I'm not a glared at jurors as the verdict was announced and shook hands with his lawyers before being led back to his cell prosecutors say the lawyer threaten to use as media access to hurt Nike's reputation and stock price unless the apparel company paid him up to twenty five million dollars defense attorney Scott's redneck says of an ID will appeal he's disappointed but he's a fighter I'm not a became famous representing porn star stormy Daniels in lawsuits against president trump he still faces in April trial on charges that he defrauded Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars a book proceeds and as a trial coming up in Los Angeles in may on charges that he defrauded clients and failed to pay taxes I'm Jennifer king
AP News Radio
Michael Avenatti is convicted of trying to extort Nike
"I'm not a glared at jurors as the verdict was announced and shook hands with his lawyers before being led back to his cell prosecutors say the lawyer threaten to use as media access to hurt Nike's reputation and stock price unless the apparel company paid him up to twenty five million dollars defense attorney Scott's redneck says of an ID will appeal he's disappointed but he's a fighter I'm not a became famous representing porn star stormy Daniels in lawsuits against president trump he still faces in April trial on charges that he defrauded Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars a book proceeds and as a trial coming up in Los Angeles in may on charges that he defrauded clients and failed to pay taxes I'm Jennifer king