Avenatti is such a car wreck at this point, I think he deserves his own thread.

Extortion

Wire Fraud

Bank Fraud

Stealing from a client (OMG--the most heinous thing an attorney can do)

Failure to pay taxes for at least a couple of years (is he caught up now?)
Lying to the IRS. eek (That's hilarious, so I'm leaving it. I was going for .)

How on Earth could he have imagined he could have been a candidate for President of the United States? Does he not know how thoroughly every aspect of every moment of your life will be examined??

I'm floored.

He's facing 50 years in prison for the California crimes alone.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/michael-avenatti-charged/index.html

 

Attorney Michael Avenatti was charged with wire and bank fraud in connection with using his client's money to pay his own personal expenses, including operations for his coffee business, according to the US Attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Here are the allegations against Avenatti, according to federal prosecutors:

• He allegedly embezzled his client's money to pay his debt and expenses.
• Avenatti also used the funds to pay expenses at his coffee business, Global Baristas US LLC, which prosecutors said operates Tully’s Coffee stores in California and Washington.
• The 48-year-old attorney also used bogus tax returns to obtain millions of dollars in loans and defrauded a bank, prosecutors said.

from the link above. I'm glued to this the way a mouse would be captivated by a cobra.

Attorneys just don't Break this Bad. They know better. It's like intentionally jumping into a combine.

 

One that's already on fire.

 

Stormy Daniels' lawyer, who is gearing up for a 2020 presidential run, also has personally owed at least $1.2 million in federal taxes, according to an exposé in the Daily Beast.

Michael Avenatti, who is gearing up for a 2020 presidential run, has owed millions in federal taxes, while two of his former companies also owe millions in unpaid taxes and judgments, according to a report published Sunday by the Daily Beast.

The report claims that Avenatti, who came to fame as the press-loving attorney for Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump, has been enjoying what it refers to as "the luxe life" while owing the money.

According to court documents and filings with local recorder's offices seen by Daily Beast's reporters, Avenatti's former law firm, Eagan Avenatti, and Tully's, a now-defunct Seattle coffee chain that he once owned through his former company Global Baristas (a majority owner in the chain), owe millions of dollars in unpaid federal and state taxes to Washington and California as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in overdue rent.

In addition, according to the report, Avenatti has owed at least $1.2 million in federal taxes, according to tax liens filed in Orange County, including one filed in February 2018 for $308,396. Another one, from August 2015, was for $903,987.

Avenatti told the Daily Beast that both debts were "fully paid," but the news site reported that it could not find any evidence or records showing that the liens were paid. He also said he is not responsible for the money owed by his former companies.

At the same time he owed money, according to civil court filings cited in the report, he was spending time racing cars with a Saudi prince and paying for luxury villas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for his wife and their friends.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...atti-owe-millions-unpaid-taxes-report-1154103

 

Who does this remind me of....

 

LOL! It was a good way for me to work off some nervous energy. The Mueller report becoming the Barr decision, the killing spree on Walking Dead, and then Avenatti blows up--it gave me something new to distract myself with.

Re Stormy, she said she had told Avenatti not to do something and he went and did it anyway. He said he had a right to do whatever he wanted because they had an agreement in lieu of being paid and blah blah blah. But I believe Stormy that he acted in bad faith as her representative.

 

Mark Geragos is an unindicted co-conspirator.

 

Yeah. I was thinking the same thing. Mania.

 

I figured you couldn't disgust me in a non-Trump thread, so I opened the Ignored Content.

Here are the Search results:

https://battleroyaleforums.com/forum/search/105999612/?q=Avenatti&o=date&c[user][0]=84612


This is the only post that comes close:

He said he wouldn't run if there were strong candidates. Personally, I don't think he would be a strong candidate. I want someone with professional political experience, and I imagine a great many people feel the same way.

Being female wasn't Hillary's weakness. She did win the popular vote. Pretty obviously, Avenatti is wrong to conclude that a bias against woman is strong enough in the Democratic party to make the difference in winning. We just need a candidate without excessive baggage, male or female.

I don't hold it against Avenatti for discussing that probable slight edge, though. Those sorts of considerations are always being weighed in the background, because the edges are always in flux. This time, I think it is experienced political professionalism that will matter.

Stay out of the presidential race, Avenatti. You are a powerful attorney. Keep doing good for society in that realm.


I did think he took a case for someone who had no power, to fight for justice for her. I did think that was a good reflection on him. Attorneys are held to a high standard of conduct. I had no reason at that time to think he flaunted and ignored those codes. But he did, flagrantly. That's why my gifs are so shocked.

I am someone who changes my opinion of people based upon what is revealed about their conduct. That's a good thing.

You, on the other hand, stick like a burr to Trump no matter how much foulness becomes evident, so I guess that is a value for you. You are back on Ignore in this thread as well. Knock yourself out.