From his famous former clients to his adversaries, Michael Avenatti runs in some star-studded circles. Which of those A-list names can feature when the embattled lawyer begins trial next week took focus Wednesday at a marathon four-hour hearing.
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Months after billionaire Jeff Bezos stared down would-be extortion, U.N. investigators on Wednesday tied the hack of Bezos’ phone to The Washington Post’s connections with slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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A federal judge in California ordered embattled attorney Michael Avenatti held without bail on bank and wire fraud charges until he can be transported to New York next week to stand trial on extortion charges there.
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Prosecutors say California attorney Michael Avenatti was over $15 million in debt when he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike, while Avenatti’s lawyers say the money he legally requested to conduct an internal probe of the sportswear giant was a bargain.
Read moreA private-ankle monitoring company did not extort daily fees from inmates by threatening them with re-arrest for nonpayment, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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A former South Florida policeman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for making two teenagers run down a desolate street naked after pulling them over for a traffic violation.
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A federal judge will soon decide whether a whittled-down lawsuit over exorbitant ankle-monitoring fees in Alameda County will go to trial early next year.
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A former Playboy model who says she had a 10-month affair with President Trump in 2006 brought a defamation suit Thursday, saying Fox News falsely accused her of trying to extort Trump to keep quiet.
Read moreA superseding indictment unsealed against celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti charges him with attempting to extort tens of millions of dollars from Nike but drops conspiracy charges in the case.
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Alan Dershowitz brought counterclaims Thursday against the prominent lawyer for two of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers before the ink on the lawyer’s defamation suit was even dry.
Read moreIn a bid to delay Michael Avenatti’s extortion trial, attorneys told a federal judge Thursday that their subpoenas of Nike officials is sure to draw out proceedings through the fall.
Read moreMichael Enriquez, 55, of San Antonio, was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in federal prison for lying to the FBI by falsely implicating a federal bankruptcy judge in prostitution, and obstructing justice by fabricating emails and to corroborate his lies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said.
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Long before he stepped down as president of the National Rifle Association, Oliver North cemented his reputation for overthrowing governments and financial improprieties in the Iran-Contra scandal. The NRA has taken the retired U.S. marine to court now over another “failed coup attempt,” saying North conspired with Ackerman McQueen, a public relations firms that has been representing the NRA since the 1980s, to topple the gun group’s leadership.
Read moreA Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) — Over a year after his representation of porn actress Stormy Daniels made him a household name, lawyer
Read moreAn Argentine man who preyed on the deep pockets of lovelorn people who hired him to cast love spells, only to be extorted for thousands of dollars, was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
Read moreLess than a year after bringing Trump accuser Stormy Daniels into the limelight, attorney Michael Avenatti received a one-two punch from federal prosecutors on both coasts Monday.
Read moreA federal judge has ruled the maker of a male enhancement pill must face claims it sent shakedown letters to gas stations and markets that sold a competing brand of pill.
Read moreA New Jersey appeals court revived extortion charges Tuesday against a man said to have tried to blackmail a money manager before several Playboy bunnies accused him of rape.
Read moreIn an extraordinary blog post accusing President Donald Trump’s favorite supermarket tabloid of “extortion and blackmail,” Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos expressed his desire to “roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
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