He hammered the president as a regular fixture on cable news and baited and bashed critics on Twitter while flirting with his own run for the White House.
"When lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys. They are acting as criminals," said Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in New York. "For the entirety of my career, I have fought against the powerful. Powerful people and powerful corporations. I will never stop fighting that good fight," he said. "I am highly confident that when all the evidence is laid bare in connection with these cases, when it is all known, when due process occurs, that I will be fully exonerated and justice will be done."
Prosecutors said Avenatti and a co-conspirator initially approached Nike on behalf of a client who coached an Amateur Athletic Union basketball program sponsored by the company in California. While lawyers sometimes make demands to seek out-of-court settlements, it crosses the line to extortion if they threaten to go public with damaging information to get something of value or gain leverage in a civil dispute, attorney Neama Rahmani said.
Hey can the CBC send Rosie Barton to do another interview with the slime ball lawyer?
GREAT Has he predicted his destination like this?
not surprised, this guys very arrogant and became suspicious when he said hed run for pres. hes a typical narcissistic gatekeeper of the elite
Basta? stronzo!
Yet another excellent poster boy for the left. 😂
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