Michael Avenatti

Michael Avenatti 2018

Michael Avenatti (born February 16, 1971 in Sacramento ) is an American lawyer, racing driver and was sentenced to imprisonment for attempted extortion in February 2020. He gained international fame as a lawyer for the porn actress Stormy Daniels . Avenatti has been in custody since January 2020, at which time further criminal proceedings were pending against him.

biography

Avenatti was born in Sacramento and raised in Missouri. He graduated from George Washington University in Washington, DC While studying, he worked for Rahm Emanuel , who later became Barack Obama's chief of staff .

He has been running his own law firm, Eagan Avenatti, LLP, since 2007 . He won several large-scale class action lawsuits, including a surgical gown manufacturer who failed to indicate that the gowns did not protect against HIV and Ebola viruses ($ 450 million in damages against Kimberly-Clark and Halyard Health ) and a cemetery operator , who dumped human remains in the trash to make room in the cemetery ($ 80 million in damages to Service Corporation International ).

In his free time he drives car races, etc. a. in the Porsche Supercup and in the American Le Mans Series .

Avenatti expressed interest in running to represent the Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.

Lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels

Since March 2018, Avenatti has appeared publicly as a lawyer for the American porn actress and stripper Stormy Daniels. The legal dispute with Donald Trump is about a declaration of confidentiality . During the election campaign for the 2016 presidential election , Stormy Daniels had agreed with Trump's attorney Michael Cohen on a payment of USD 130,000. In return, she shouldn't talk about an alleged affair with the real estate tycoon that should have happened from 2006 onwards. Avenatti and Daniels are challenging this confidentiality statement in a civil court in Los Angeles . According to this, the document was signed by Daniels, but never by Trump himself.

In the course of the dispute, Avenatti repeatedly sought the public on television or on Twitter, where he used the hashtag #Basta in all matters relating to Donald Trump . On July 29, 2018, Avenatti was publicly threatened by QAnon . QAnon posted a photo of a man suspected of being armed standing outside Avenatti's office.

Julie Swetnick's lawyer

Avenatti represented Julie Swetnick, who had alleged rape against Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the United States Supreme Court . In an NBC television interview, however, Swetnick withdrew the statements she had made in an affidavit.

Criminal proceedings

Avenatti has been charged with extorting up to $ 25 million from Nike . After initially being released on bail, he was arrested for non-compliance in January 2020. In February 2020, Avenatti was found guilty by a jury in a criminal trial.

A criminal case is ongoing against Avenatti in New York for allegedly cheating on his mandate Stormy Daniels out of income from book royalties. In another trial in Los Angeles, due to be negotiated in May 2020, he is accused of cheating clients out of millions of dollars.

Racing statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2015	United Kingdom JMW Motorsport	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Saudi Arabia Abdulaziz Al Faisal	Poland Cuba Giermaziak	Rank 36

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2012	United States Competition motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	United States Bob Faieta	United States Cort Wagner		Rank 42
2013	United States Dempsey Del Piero Racing	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	United States Bob Faieta	United States Andrew Davis		Rank 29
2014	United States GB Autosport	Porsche 911 GT America	United States Bob Faieta	Netherlands Duncan Huisman	Ireland Damien Faulkner	Rank 35
2015	United States GB Autosport	Porsche 911 GT America	United States Mike Skeen	Poland Cuba Giermaziak	Ireland Damien Faulkner	failure	malfunction