CNN is in mourning today. There time contributor, party mate, and fellow Trump hater is going to jail for 30 months after trying to extort Nike. The best part is that Avenatti cried like a little baby!
Investigators said Avenatti had asked executives at the sports apparel giant to pay him to keep him from sharing alleged evidence that he said would show how the company had bribed amateur basketball players.
“I and I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships and my life,” a tearful Avenatti told Manhattan federal judge Paul Gardephe, according to reporters in the courtroom.
The judge said Avenatti had become “drunk on the power of his platform —- or what he perceived his platform to be” as he handed down the sentence.
Avenatti’s present situation is a far cry from the dizzy heights of February 2018 to March 2019 when he was the lawyer for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.