Michael Avenatti is facing serious federal charges in an attempted shakedown of sneaker giant Nike. Avenatti was arrested on Monday and charged with attempting to extort $20 million from Nike.
Avenatti was charged with wire and bank fraud, federal authorities say in a complaint filed in a New York federal court on Monday.
Manhattan Federal Prosecutors allege Avenatti tried to shakedown Nike by threatening to publicize alleged damaging information about Nike’s involvement with high school and college basketball recruits – some of whom are currently playing in the NBA. Avenatti reportedly asked for $20 million to be paid to him and his client.
Before he was taken into custody, Avenatti tweeted: “[Tomorrow] at 11 am ET, we will be holding a press conference to disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involved some of the biggest names in college basketball.”
Tmrw at 11 am ET, we will be holding a press conference to disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) March 25, 2019
The celebrity lawyer is best known for representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump. She lost that lawsuit and was ordered to pay Trump’s attorney’s fees and legal costs (about $300,000).
Avenatti was recently in the headlines after he turned over a decades old videotape which he says shows R&B singer R. Kelly sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. But Kelly’s camp says the girl in the video is the same girl in a prior criminal case that ended in an acquittal.
Avenatti was previously arrested in November for felony domestic assault.
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Being punished for having too much greed. These elite people should know that their crooked ways will be exposed sooner or later.
Yeah… I was waiting on something like this. He should have known they would be coming from him sooner or later. He better hope his ducks are in a row.
Lawd!… This dude here ain’t right!… He just ain’t right and anybody that hires him as their lawyer is a damn fool!
I’m confused… isn’t this what attorney’s DO? Negotiate a settlement to prevent going to court?
I am playing James Brown the big payback!!
Hit it!
Hit it! Ha!
I’m mad
Revenge
I’ll cut your throat
I’ll make amends
Ha! Ha!
I’m mad
That’s a fact
Get ready, dog
For the big payback
I’m mad
Revenge
I’ll cut your throat
I’ll make amends
Take a walk
We’ll have a talk
And my…
This clout chasing ass fraud. Out here trying to set R. Kelly when he got his own problems.
Kellz somewhere smiling…
The Democrats credibility is going down the toilet an into the sewer.
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Nah… This wasn’t no negotiation… This was a… “Either deposit $20 million in me and my client’s acct by this date or I’m telling everything!”… Which is extortion (a threat)… You can’t do that.
Soooooooo Auntie what’s the word on Wendy Williams husband mistress having a baby, allegedly? Is it just a rumor that’s why it hasn’t been picked up by the media?
Uranus in Taurus ?? lots of reveal and breakdown/shakedown coming get ready.
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He’s a thug, but that doesn’t mean that his accusations in the NY Nike case aren’t true! SDNY is gonna be busy this year….gotta make sure my son applies for an internship LOL.
Do you just cut & paste this no matter the topic?
I am in agreement!
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She just posted the story…
And to think… about a year ago Michael Avenatti actually was considering running for President.
This man has fallen a long way in a short time.
He just can’t get right.
The ditch you dig for others you will
soon fall in….????? Telling on everybody but himself. lol
DOINGTOOMUCH.COM
Why is the lime head with ears even news???? Knew his ass was snake when he represented that porn chik that Dump poked…smdh….nothing to see here…just dumb yt folks being dumb yt folks……moving along—>
Mr. Shakedown got Shook…
That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
I definitely believe Nike is guilty of what he’s alleging. This doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Figures.. Dude has fraud written all over him
Did he NOT know that Nike has the funds to make him disappear????
I AM CTFU!!!
yas, AND IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT TO BAD GO SUCK YOUR THUMBS YOU BABY CRAB.
Ashy frogs
It’s not Uranus alone. It’s Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Capricorn that’s doing this as well. Uranus will cause strange things to happen. While Pluto will reveal and transform things. With Saturn giving everyone back wtf they put out. Look up the 10th house ( that’s Capricorns house on the zodiac wheel) and what it stands for.
When doing clownery goes wrong. you will find Avenatti’s picture in the dictionary. You are that desperate that you would extort money that you had no business in making. Now I see why he was a democrats champion they are cut from the same cloth. He said ” I’m gonna bring down Trump” but be careful the grave you dig for someone else will e the one you dig for yourself.
????????Basically
And then his a$$ list that case. This dude taking L after L
A damn mess chile !!!!
This guy STAYS in negative news! He must be really desperate for cash ? to try ANYTHING with Nike! Smdh
At the rate things are going,
Trump is going to think he’s Michael Corleone on the day he settled things with the 5 families. ?
Who y’all got on the case? Phadera Parks or Michael Avenatti?? ??????????
There is still hope for him to be prez though. Cause look who we got now.
Extortion cause money was for HIM and NOT HIS CLIENT. Only reason why it is legally considered extortion. Just heard it on MSNBC.
Incorrect.
Sounds like he’s pretty desperate for cash indeed. If this is true sounds like he’s going to prison and will be disbarred.
So to be absolutely clear: This POS has been arrested and will not continue to plague humanity with his awful miserable existence. LMaoo
Mike
Avenatti
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Arrested
All of his clients that he is representing in the R. Kelly case are going to lose their case. He is untrustworthy…smdh
Donkey booty to the rescue!
I know Kellz somewhere doing “step in the name of love”
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LMAO
He got handled, too cocky for his own good! In this #metoo time and era, trial and conviction by public opinion, the feds will do what they can to send him to prison. Another “entitled” individual with a law license caught in alleged criminal activity, “business as usual!”
Nike has friends in high places, and called in some favors, even tho, they probably did precisely what dude says, but he tried to extort a giant like Nike!
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He looks like a hobbit with nice teeth
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