If you’re pressured between defrauding your purchasers or stiffing the IRS out of their cash, choose a wrestle! Star lawyer Michael Avenatti made the silly option to double up on the dangerous selections and was sentenced to 14 years in prison back in 2022. Since then he’s since pushed for a resentening — The LA Times has the outcomes:
Michael Avenatti, the once-swaggering movie star lawyer who represented grownup movie star Stormy Daniels in her court docket battles in opposition to President Trump, was resentenced Thursday to 11 years in jail for dodging taxes and stealing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from purchasers.
U.S. District Choose James V. Selna resentenced Avenatti to 135 months — barely greater than 11 years — however credited him 40 months for the time he has served in jail for stealing almost $300,000 from Daniels’ advance on a ebook contract. That introduced his sentence to just about eight years.
Knocking a number of years off of your sentence is much from strolling free, however it’s nonetheless second finest. Avenatti has additionally been making the most effective of his time behind bars by tutoring inmates and being a suicide watch companion. You can query the motivations of the great work he’s achieved behind bars — prosecutor Brett Sagel accused Avenatti of being unrepentant and solely doing issues that profit him — however you can’t query the work itself. That goes for his good deeds as a lot as his authorized ones: Avenatti and his authorized workforce appear to have a pair extra (doubtlessly) sentence shortening arguments up their sleeves.
Former Celebrity Lawyer Michael Avenatti Gets Nearly Eight More Years In Prison At Resentencing [LA Times]
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