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Undated: Michael John Avenatti (born February 16, 1971)[3] is an American attorney and entrepreneur. He has appeared on broadcast television[4][5][6] as well as in print[7] as a legal commentator and representative for prominent clients, including the National Football League,[8] various celebrity defendants,[9][10] high-ranking business executives,[11] and Fortune 100 companies.[12] He is also a professional race car driver, having participated in races in the United States and Europe.[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Avenatti represents adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump in an attempt to void a non-disclosure agreement she had signed.[19][20] Avenatti also represents Daniels in a related defamation suit against Trump. In October 2018, a federal judge dismissed the defamation lawsuit and ordered Daniels to pay Trump's legal fees. Avenatti said he would appeal that decision; Daniels later said that Avenatti had initiated the suit against her wishes.[21][22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Avenatti
-- 2018 --
May 14: Michael Avenatti Posts Photos Of Cohen With Qatari Investor Accused Of Bribery
“Warning ignored. So here it goes,” Stormy Daniels’ attorney tweeted.
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti posted photos Sunday on Twitter showing Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen getting into an elevator at Trump Tower with a man appearing to be a Qatari banker accused in a lawsuit affidavit of boasting that he bribed Washington politicians.
Avenatti said Cohen was in the building shortly after the presidential election meeting with a group of Qataris, including Ahmed al-Rumaihi, an official of Qatar’s national wealth fund.
Why did the men meet, Avenatti asked in his tweet, adding: “and why did Mr. Al-Rumaihi later brag about bribing administration officials according to a sworn declaration filed in court?”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/avenatti-posts-photos-of-cohen-kelly_us_5af8bfa4e4b00d7e4c1bb77e
May 14: Adult film star Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti threatened Monday to sue The Daily Caller and its reporters individually for defamation, according to an email published by one of the conservative news site's reporters.
Although Avenatti does not specify which stories from the Daily Caller he believes are defamatory, the site notes it recently published a story on his "questionable history," which the article asserts "is littered with lawsuits, jilted business partners and bankruptcy filings."
Avenatti's threats were not well-received by journalists, including FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver who said, "Avenatti seems quite Trumpian in both loving the media attention and acting quite contemptuously toward the free press."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/14/michael-avenatti-threatens-sue-daily-caller/609751002/
May 22: Michael Avenatti's law firm has been ordered to pay $10 million in a legal dispute with a former colleague who claims the firm stiffed him of millions in profits.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-avenatti-after-losing-dollar10m-dispute-im-not-a-celebrity-im-a-lawyer
May 22: Who Did Playboy Model Shera Bechard Really Have an Affair With?
You may recall that a few weeks ago a judge ordered Trump lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen to reveal all his clients. It turned out he had only three: Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, and … Elliott Broidy. What’s more, he only represented Broidy on one thing: a hush money payment to a Playboy model he had an affair with, some of which was used to pay for an abortion. When that was revealed, Broidy immediately confessed in a surprisingly workmanlike statement and that was that.
The whole thing seemed odd, leading Paul Campos to make the case that it was actually Donald Trump who had the affair, with Broidy taking the fall for him. Campos made a decent case, but it was purely speculative and quickly dropped out of sight.
... it sure seems a helluva lot more likely that Campos was right. It always seemed odd that Broidy had paid Shera Bechard $1.6 million for her silence, considering that an affair with a guy like Broidy was hardly front-page news. However, an affair with Trump would be front-page news, and this was right in the middle of Broidy’s big campaign to get Trump to help him out with the Qatar business. What better way to ingratiate yourself with Trump than to offer to cover this up for him?
Is this true? I’m not sure we’ll ever know. But it seems pretty plausible.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/05/who-did-playboy-model-shera-bechard-really-have-an-affair-with/
May 25: Porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti ‘hot-tempered,’ ‘loud,’ wife says in docs detailing messy divorce
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/porn-star-lawyer-michael-avenatti-hot-tempered-loud-wife-says-in-docs-detailing-messy-divorce
June 1: How a 'nobody' ex-con pushed Avenatti law firm into bankruptcy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/01/politics/avenatti-bankruptcy-lawsuit-stormy/index.html
July 6: Shera Bechard just sued Trump donor Elliott Broidy over a scuttled hush money deal
Bechard also named Michael Avenatti and her own former lawyer, Keith Davidson, in the suit.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/6/17542222/shera-bechard-broidy-trump-lawsuit-pregnancy
July 7: Shera Bechard: Playboy Playmate Sues Michael Avenatti, But Donald Trump Cover-Up May Be Involved, Expert Says
https://www.inquisitr.com/4973981/shera-bechard-playboy-michael-avenatti-donald-trump/
July 10: Playboy model Shera Bechard ordered to give Michael Avenatti sealed suit involving hush deal with GOP donor Elliott Broidy
A Los Angeles judge declined to overturn a 20-day sealing order of Playboy model Shera Bechard’s complaint against GOP donor Elliott Broidy Tuesday but ordered the defendants, including Michael Avenatti, receive immediate, unredacted copies.
Bechard filed the complaint under seal just days after Broidy’s reported decision to halt his $200,000 installment payments on their privacy pact.
A source told the Daily News that Bechard named Avenatti as a co-defendant because he posted a Twitter message April 12 that described her confidential deal with Broidy. A day later, the Wall Street Journal confirmed the hush-money deal in a blockbuster story.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-avenatti-demands-shera-bechard-elliott-broidy-sealed-complaint-20180710-story.html
August 11: Michael Avenatti says Democrats must 'fight fire with fire' as he eyes presidential run
Speaking to a crowd of activists at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding event, Avenatti left the room electrified. The lawyer, who is exploring a potential presidential bid, turned what has been a sleepy presidential pre-season so far upside down.
In his remarks, which went for nearly half an hour, or twice as long as the limit for speakers at the event, Avenatti drew repeated standing ovations as he called for a vigorous, aggressive Democratic response to Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/11/michael-avenatti-says-democrats-must-fight-fire-with-fire-as-he-eyes-presidential-run
October 21: Michael Avenatti Lived the High Life While Owing Millions to IRS
As Michael Avenatti floats a 2020 presidential run, court records reveal the lawyer and his companies owed millions in unpaid taxes and judgments.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-avenatti-lived-the-high-life-while-owing-millions-to-irs
November 15: Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels in her legal battles with President Trump, was arrested Wednesday following an allegation of domestic violence, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Avenatti, who has denied the allegation, was booked Wednesday afternoon after police took a report on Tuesday of the alleged incident. He was released on $50,000 bail.
Police say the incident occurred at a residence on Santa Monica Boulevard near Beverly Hills, according to BuzzFeed News.
The identity of the victim of the alleged abuse was not immediately clear. The celebrity gossip website TMZ initially said that Avenatti's estranged wife, Lisa Storie-Avenatti, was involved, but it backed off its reporting after her attorneys issued a denial.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668095372/michael-avenatti-stormy-daniels-lawyer-arrested-on-allegations-of-domestic-viole
November 16: Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, lost a last-ditch appeal Friday to block the eviction of his law practice from its Newport Beach offices.
In a brief hearing at Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Judge Robert J. Moss affirmed his Oct. 22nd order that Avenatti and his staff vacate their ocean-view suite in a building across from the Fashion Island mall. He ordered them to leave by Monday.
Avenatti’s longtime law firm, Eagan Avenatti, skipped $213,254 in rent payments due over four months, leading the landlord, the Irvine Co., to sue for eviction.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-avenatti-eviction-20181116-story.html
November 20: The woman who has accused lawyer and 2020 Democratic hopeful Michael Avenatti of domestic abuse is a 20-something Estonian actress who has appeared in the movies "Sargasso," "Crypto," and "Forgetting Sandy Glass," and has had uncredited roles in "Ocean’s 8" and "How to be Single."
Mareli Miniutti filed a petition seeking a restraining order against Avenatti — the attorney who represents porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump — in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.
The pair had reportedly been dating since October 2017 and broke up on the night Miniutti alleges Avenatti, 47, attacked her. The gossip website TMZ originally reported that it was his estranged wife who filed the report, but then, the website retracted the report and said it was an unnamed woman.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/michael-avenatti-abuse-accuser-is-estonian-actress-two-decades-his-junior
November 20: Michael Avenatti: Victim of set-up or domestic abuser?
No one should have expected Michael Avenatti to not aggressively defend himself against accusations, first reported by TMZ, that he physically assaulted his girlfriend, an actress from Estonia.
In fact, the lawyer, who is best known for challenging President Donald Trump by pugnaciously representing porn actress Stormy Daniels, tweeted on Tuesday that he has videotape evidence from his apartment in Century City that shows that the TMZ report on the alleged assault is false.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/20/michael-avenatti-victim-of-set-up-or-domestic-abuser/
November 22: LA County prosecutors decline to file felony charges against Michael Avenatti, refer case for misdemeanor consideration
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/politics/avenatti-case-referred-misdemeanor-consideraton/index.html
November 29:
Mark Geragos, a veteran litigator whose clients include former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Chris Brown, was consulted when Avenatti was facing the potential of a felony domestic violence charge over an alleged incident with actress Mareli Miniutti.
December 4: Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti announces he won't run for president, cites family
Stormy Daniels' attorney, who has traveled to early states like Iowa and New Hampshire, says he won't rest until Trump is removed from office.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/stormy-daniels-lawyer-michael-avenatti-announces-he-won-t-run-n943576
A woman who took the Statue of Liberty hostage on the Fourth of July to protest the separation of families at the Mexican border has been convicted on all counts by a Manhattan federal judge.
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, who scaled the base of the national icon, causing the evacuation of the statue and Liberty Island on one of the attraction’s busiest days of the year, was convicted on three misdemeanor charges that could send her to jail for up to 1½ years.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, was also in court because he served as an adviser to Okoumou.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/17/protester-who-climbed-statue-of-liberty-found-guilty-on-all-counts/
December 14: Some seven months before Michael Cohen’s three-year prison sentence, Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti tweeted out a report accusing President Donald Trump’s former “fixer” of committing bank fraud. Now that Cohen has admitted to that charge in court – and making illegal hush money payments to Daniels – Avenatti exuded his characteristic confidence in a telephone interview sharing his next set of predictions.
Almost entirely corroborated in short order, the seven-page report that Avenatti released back in May has proven prescient and relevant in the wake of Cohen’s sentencing. The report disclosed for the first time that Cohen used the shell company Essential Consultants LLC to pay $130,000 to keep Daniels from revealing her alleged affair with Trump. Cohen has since admitted that in federal court.
Less widely reported, Avenatti alleged Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg poured money into that same shell company within 75 days after the payment to Daniels. This detail has taken on a newfound significance in wake of reports that federal prosecutors have been investigating foreign money spilling into Trump’s inauguration.
https://www.courthousenews.com/with-cohen-prison-bound-michael-avenattis-not-done-throwing-punches/
December 17: A woman who took the Statue of Liberty hostage on the Fourth of July to protest the separation of families at the Mexican border has been convicted on all counts by a Manhattan federal judge.
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, who scaled the base of the national icon, causing the evacuation of the statue and Liberty Island on one of the attraction’s busiest days of the year, was convicted on three misdemeanor charges that could send her to jail for up to 1½ years.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, was also in court because he served as an adviser to Okoumou.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/17/protester-who-climbed-statue-of-liberty-found-guilty-on-all-counts/
December 23: When the history of the Trump era is written, scholars will likely marvel at the meteoric rise of Michael Avenatti.
Before 2018, the prominent lawyer was hardly a household name. Less than twelve months later, Avenatti's determination to draw attention to the claims of adult film actress Stormy Daniels — who says that she had an affair with Donald Trump before he became president and was then paid illegal hush money to stay quiet — has made him one of Trump's loudest detractors. His efforts have also culminated in the criminal conviction of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer, as well as the looming prospect that Trump's potentially illegal activities in covering up the alleged affairs could contribute to his ultimate downfall.
https://www.salon.com/2018/12/23/michael-avenattis-wild-2018-rise-and-fall/
-- 2019 --
January 11: Judge Poised to Force Michael Avenatti to Open Books in Divorce Case
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer claims he has paid his ex-wife what he owes, but she says he's behind $1.7 million in child and spousal support.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-poised-to-force-michael-avenatti-to-open-books-in-divorce-case
January 12: Avenatti says he and Stormy Daniels will attend Cohen's congressional hearing
On Twitter: I am pleased to announce that @StormyDaniels and I will attend the congressional hearing when Cohen testifies. Which is only appropriate seeing as it would have never happened but for @StormyDaniels.
January 11
Michael Avenatti
✔ @MichaelAvenatti
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425029-avenatti-says-he-and-stormy-daniels-will-attend-cohens-congressional
February 2: Michael Avenatti won't face domestic violence charges
https://www.upi.com/Michael-Avenatti-wont-face-domestic-violence-charges/6651549118204/
February 13: It turns out that lawyer Michael Avenatti is not a particularly good dude. We already knew that he was arrested for domestic violence in November (the police declined to file charges), but now it turns out that he also seemingly hid millions of dollars from bankruptcy court when his firm went under in 2017.
The firm, Eagan Avenatti, was required to file monthly reports on its finances throughout 2017. Avenatti signed those reports, swearing that they were accurate.
But the reports didn’t disclose that Avenatti had opened six bank accounts where he put millions of dollars of legal fees during the bankruptcy proceedings. That’s what his former legal partner Jason Frank is now claiming in court documents, according to the Los Angeles Times.
https://splinternews.com/michael-avenatti-reportedly-committed-millions-of-dolla-1832609415
February 14: Attorney Michael Avenatti, who repped Stormy Daniels in her legal battle with President Donald Trump over their alleged sexual tryst, has a new target: singer and accused sexual predator R. Kelly.
Avenatti says he's unearthed "a bombshell of epic proportions": a videotape from the 1990s of the R&B star having sex with a 14-year-old girl, which was shared with CNN and turned over to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, which prosecutes state crimes in Chicago.
"It's over, after nearly two decades of sexual abuse by R. Kelly," Avenatti told USA TODAY Thursday, predicting that the singer would not "survive" the discovery of his alleged new video evidence.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/02/14/new-r-kelly-sex-tape-with-teen-girl-michael-avenatti-says-he-found-one/2869834002/
February 14: Michael Avenatti ceded control of his law firm Eagan Avenatti on Wednesday and allowed a receiver to take over the firm’s bank accounts, case files, computers, and other materials.
The move comes after a former partner of the firm, Jason Frank, alleged in court documents Avenatti concealed millions of dollars in legal fees from the court handling Eagan Avenatti’s bankruptcy and used some of the funds for personal compensation.
Avenatti has agreed to work with Frank so he can collect his $10 million judgment against the firm, but denied he had done anything wrong.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/michael-avenatti-cedes-control-of-law-firm
February 21: IRS employee accused of leaking Michael Cohen's bank records to Michael Avenatti
John C. Fry, 54, was charged with one count of unlawful disclosure of information obtained from so-called Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and was released on $50,000 bond after appearing in federal court in San Francisco.
According to an affidavit by Linda Cieslak, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury, Fry repeatedly searched law enforcement databases for information relating to Cohen. Fry, an investigative analyst for the IRS' law enforcement arm who has worked for the agency since 2008, is accused of gaining access to five SARs, which are filed by banks when transactions are spotted that raise questions about possible financial misconduct.
One of the reports Fry allegedly accessed showed Cohen's Essential Consultants had received a total of $500,000 from Columbus Nova, a company associated with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch who donated money to Trump's inauguration fund. Other payments to Essential Consultants came from AT&T ($200,000) and pharmaceutical company Novartis (approximately $399,920).
Cieslak said Fry called Avenatti from his cellphone three separate times and relayed the information from the SARs to the attorney verbally. The agent added that Fry admitted to doing so when investigators confronted him in November.
The affidavit says Avenatti made the information he obtained from Fry public on Twitter May 8, writing: "Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen have a lot of explaining to do." Avenatti declined to say how he obtained the records, telling Fox News at the time: "That’s my work product and will not be disclosed."
Avenatti tweeted Thursday evening: "Neither I nor [reporter] R. Farrow did anything wrong or illegal with the financial info relating to Cohen’s crimes (the courts have found that the [federal Bank Secrecy Act] does not apply ... And if we did (we didn’t), then every reporter in America would be jailed and unable to do their job."
If convicted, Fry faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 13.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-employee-accused-of-leaking-michael-cohens-bank-records-to-michael-avenatti
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