{"id":1271467,"date":"2022-02-04T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271467"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:38:25","slug":"michael-avenatti-found-guilty-of-defrauding-stormy-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-avenatti-found-guilty-of-defrauding-stormy-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Avenatti Found Guilty of Defrauding Stormy Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-avenatti-found-guilty-of-defrauding-stormy-daniels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271467&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1125223552.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Michael Avenatti, the befallen lawyer who became a Democrat hero for representing&nbsp;pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/avenatti-stormy-daniels-talks-stalled-173643795.html?ncid=twitter_yahoonewst_sjwumo1bpf4\">found guilt<\/a> by jury on Friday of cheating his former client out of money owed for her book about an alleged affair with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Avenatti was convicted on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity in connection with cheating Daniels out of nearly $300,000 in proceeds for her book,&nbsp;<em>Full Disclosure. <\/em>The disgraced attorney faces a maximum prison penalty of 20 years for the wire fraud charge, while the aggravated identity theft charge carries a two-year jail term.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-michael-avenatti-488001c7168ee17e6fa903f784909123?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter\">AP<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Avenatti dumped his lawyers and decided to represent himself shortly after the trial began, setting up a face-to-face showdown with Daniels, his former client, who appeared in a new role as star witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Prosecutors portrayed Avenatti as a common thief and serial liar. He countered by seeking to cast himself as a white knight who came to the rescue of Daniels until he turned on her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Over two days of cross-examination, he questioned her about the allegations that he\u2019d swindled her out of book proceeds \u2014 and about ghost stories she\u2019d told for a possible show about the supernatural world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">\u201cThe case isn\u2019t as clear-cut as the government wants everybody to believe,\u201d&nbsp;Avenatti claimed to reporters as the jury&nbsp;deliberated the case.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s ruling is the latest legal blow to&nbsp;Avenatti, who has yet to begin his&nbsp;30-month sentence for attempting to&nbsp;extort millions of dollars from Nike. He is also accused of cheating several clients out of money in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Avenatti\u2019s rapid anti-Trump stance earned him copious airtime on cable news shows, particularly on CNN. In 2018, CNN\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Reliable Sources<\/em>&nbsp;host Brian Stelter even went as far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/remembering-the-time-brian-stelter-told-michael-avenatti-im-taking-you-seriously-as-a-contender-in-2020\/\">declare<\/a> that he was taking Avenatti \u201cseriously\u201d as a possible presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a good thing that star power and TV savvy is required for the job. But I think it is. And by the way, I think President Obama also had a lot of TV star power and that helped him, pre-Trump. But Trump is more evidence of this, and looking ahead to 2020, one reason why I\u2019m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news,\u201d&nbsp;Stelter said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Avenatti, the befallen lawyer who became a Democrat hero for representing\u00a0pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, was found guilt by jury on Friday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}