BREAKING: Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti found guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in case involving former client Stormy Daniels.
Former attorney Michael Avenatti arrives for his criminal trial, at the United States Courthouse in New York City, Jan. 24, 2022.
Avenatti had pleaded not guilty and argued the evidence against him was insufficient but the jury sided with federal prosecutors who said Avenatti convinced Daniels her book publisher was late with payments owed to her for her memoir, “Full Disclosure,” when he already had the money in an account he controlled.
A subsequent note indicated a single juror “is refusing to look at evidence and is acting on a feeling.” In both instances the judge ordered the jury to keep trying. “She claims to have the ability to talk to the dead. She claims to have a doll who talks, plays the piano, and calls her mommy,” Avenatti said. “Does this sound like someone the government should be using as their star witness in a criminal case?”Stormy Daniels, accompanied by her attorney, Michael Avenatti, talks to the media as she leaves federal court, April 16, 2018, in New York.
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