Well there goes Avenatti's license

[malaise]

and his freedom - ah well - another one bites the dust.

[HipChick]

1. Pretty much...Trump must have some good

Obeah people working for him...

Avenatti also got done for inflating his wealth in order to obtain a loan...sounds familiar?

[CincyDem]

2. Not sure it took too much magic...

Oregon is a one-side consent state meaning that conversations can be recorded if one of the two (or more) parties involved in the conversation consent.

Being reported that Avenatti said to Nike attorneys "If you don't pay me on this one I'll go public and take 10 billion off your market cap so I'm not f'ing around here".

Likely it's recorded and irrefutable to get DoJ in any jurisdiction to move this fast against anyone. I'm sure if didn't hurt that it was Avanetti but it feels like this is the way that a functioning justice department ought to work - I know it's been so long since we've seen that.

[malaise]

3. Hehehehe

As we say. eeent! !

[HipChick]

4. Lmao!....

[jberryhill]

7. Well, they've been at it a long time....

Link to tweet

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Holy cow. You know trump sent DOJ after him but

Yikes that's a whole lot of crime he's accused of

[jberryhill]

11. No, Trump had nothing to do with it

Unfortunately, people at DU have refused, for months, to look at what was going on with his firm bankruptcy proceedings, the proceeding brought against him by a client whose money he stole, and the arrest of the IRS investigator who provided him with the Michael Cohen bank transaction data that the SDNY already had.

He's had a bunch of creditors chasing him for a while, and the circus of financial crimes in which he's been involved has been apparent for a while.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211713857
Former Client Accuses Michael Avenatti of Operating Law Firm Like a 'Ponzi Scheme'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211849917
Avenatti FINALLY Going To Be Responsible For Someone Going To Prison?

No one gave a shit because he "talked tough" and "got under Trump's skin".

[ProudLib72]

12. I almost got permanently booted from DU for speaking against Avenatti

Three posts removed within an hour!

Now all those jerks can eat crow!!!!

[jberryhill]

13. Skittles got booted for it

And I almost did too.

[Ms. Toad]

16. I mostly decided it wasn't worth the flack.

If any of my posts got alerted, they weren't hidden. I've got enough other ways that I got under people's skin that I left Avenatti mostly alone. But yea, he just seemed to me like Trump in democratic clothing.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210593781#post6

I didn't realize that was what got Skittles.

[demmiblue]

17. I think it was more about her nasty comments regarding Stormy Daniels. n/t

[jberryhill]

25. And what of it, really?

Was Stormy Daniels some kind of victim of something?

She had one brief consensual sexual encounter with Trump in 2005 because she thought she could get something out of it (and not because he was so devastatingly handsome). She didn’t get anything out of it. So, years later, she decides she can make money talking about a brief consensual sexual encounter because, gosh, that’s really important news everyone needs to know about a thrice married serial philanderer. She demands, and receives, $130,000 to promise not to talk about it. Months later, she changes her mind and decides she wants to keep the $130k and talk about it, because she figures she sold short on the prospect he wouldn’t win. Fortunately for her, the defendants agree the contract is invalid, thus nullifying the contract and the lawsuit, but due to some spectacularly bad legal advice she ends up owing Trump $293k in fees.

What paragon of virtue is she in any of this?

[Tipperary]

21. I was attacked in a thread. I also had at least one post hidden.

I still cannot believe people fell for that guy. And Geragos is somehow involved too, right? He is Smollet’s lawyer, is he not? Uh oh.

[sheshe2]

29. That is why Skittles is gone?

Dayum it! Sorry to hear that.

I never liked or trusted him. Yet kept my mouth shut.

[Hoyt]

28. Good point, had forgotten my hidden posts about the grifter.

[Gothmog]

5. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

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[Tipperary]

6. Where are all his du fans now? Wanted him to run for president?

I remember several of us being attacked here for pointing out he was just another rump, a con man.

[Kaleva]

8. They are busy reccing this thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211926899

[Tipperary]

20. Lol.

Looks like he has really screwed up this time. Smh.

[demmiblue]

23. So gullible (some of the names are surprising, though). n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. I still think he handled trump in media better than anyone

[Ms. Toad]

14. Birds of a feather . . .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. perhaps

[USALiberal]

19. I agree! nt

[Tipperary]

22. Unfortunately rump is getting the last laugh. I hate that.

What a week. And it is only Monday.

[malaise]

34. Ditto n/t

[USALiberal]

18. Anyone calling out Trump was fine with me. nt

[UniteFightBack]

15. We needed a shady lawyer to attack rump and put this on blast. He was perfect for that role.

I also think he is stupid....just like rump. You gonna go national and you're this dirty. ?????????????? Really really dumb just like rump because he will meet the same fate - me and you...we know this.

[jberryhill]

30. He thought it would lead to enough money to fix his problems

As one of his clients put it, his firm ran like a Ponzi scheme. He needed to gain a celebrity profile in order to feed his deepening spiral of financial shenanigans and excess.

I’ve seen this movie a couple of times. Someone's hard work starts to pay off, or they get lucky, ad they think the money will just keep shooting out of the ground like Uncle Jed’s oil well. It doesn’t. They get overextended and desperate, and then they start to make really bad decisions.

[malaise]

33. He played his role

making the world know about those illegal payments to Stormy.
There are way too many sleazy folks around.

[Miles Archer]

26. Things started smelling funny shortly after he positioned himself as savior of the world.

As Lawrence O'Donnell observed tonight, Trump became an "unindicted co-conspirator" as the result of the Stormy Daniels case.

But once he started floating himself as a "street fighter" candidate in 2020, I stopped posting Avenatti content here, because something seemed a little "off."

And, it turns out, it probably was then, and we know it is now.

Daniels' reaction to all of this was something like "saddened but not surprised."

Ralph Waldo Emerson — 'Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.'

[jberryhill]

31. O'Donnell is still conned

The SDNY was on to Cohen long before the Daniels case. The WSJ published the payoff in January 2018. O’Donnell is deflecting his own role in uncritically elevating Agenatti to some kind of legal genius status and putting his mug on teevee for hours on end.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. He'll be lucky if his license is all he loses.

Grifters gotta grift but the dude's a weapons-grade grifter. I figured a long time ago that he was gonna get his ass in trouble because his griftiness shone right through my teevee every time he conned Melber and O'Donnell into letting him brag about how he was taking Trump down (and I got shit for it right here on DU for making note that he was clearly a diamond-studded ambulance-chaser, cuz he's also (allegedly) a Democrat), but he has exceeded my wildest expectations.

[2naSalit]

32. Awww...

he was kind of fun for a while.