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Avenatti's Bad News Gets WORSE with MASSIVE Trove of Indictments

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Despite Michael Avenatti’s own purported legal qualifications, the celebrity lawyer is facing and enormous bevy of charges that could land him in the clink for quite a long time.

The “creepy porn lawyer”, as he was famously labeled by television host Tucker Carlson, was central to the bizarre story of Stormy Daniels – an adult video actress who claims to have participated in an affair with Donald Trump a dozen years or so ago.  Upon Trump’s election to the White House, Daniels emerged from relative obscurity to sue the sitting President in a move that was widely understood to be a publicity stunt to drum up interest in the aging actress’ exotic dancing tour.

Avenatti painted himself into the stereotype of the combative, sleazy lawyer throughout the affair, appearing more often on television than even his supposedly “famous” client.

Now, the “creepy porn lawyer” is himself in the hot seat, and facing a whole slew of charges; 3 dozen to be exact.

In a sweeping expansion of the criminal charges against Michael Avenatti, a federal grand jury has indicted the Los Angeles lawyer on 36 counts of fraud, perjury, failure to pay taxes, embezzlement and other financial crimes.

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Avenatti stole millions of dollars from five clients and used a tangled web of shell companies and bank accounts to cover up the theft, the Santa Ana grand jury alleged in an indictment that prosecutors will make public Thursday.

And, as if the charges themselves weren’t damning enough, the nature of Avenatti’s crimes is despicable.

One of the clients, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability who won a $4-million settlement of a suit against Los Angeles County. The money was wired to Avenatti in January 2015, but he hid it from Johnson for years, according to the indictment.

In 2017, Avenatti received $2.75 million in proceeds from another client’s legal settlement, but concealed that too, the indictment says. The next day, he put $2.5 million of that money into the purchase of a private jet for Passport 420, LLC, a company he effectively owned, according to prosecutors.

The Department of Justice is expected to hold a press conference in the coming hours in order to better address the massive expansion of charges against Avenatti.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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