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EXTORTION – AVANATTI






How Avenatti May Have Crossed The Line Into Extortion














By Andrew Strickler






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Law360 (March 26, 2019, 9:52 PM EDT) -- A day after being accused of trying to extort Nike, attorney and President Donald Trump antagonist Michael Avenatti was on the offensive Tuesday with allegations of corruption on the part of the company, but those counterpunches likely won't help him dodge federal charges that he went beyond hardball advocacy.




According to prosecutors, Avenatti pressed Nike to pay him millions of dollars as an "internal investigator" in addition to the much smaller figure he demanded from the sports gear giant for his youth basketball coach client.




The lack of nexus between his client's alleged injury at Nike's hands and Avenatti's demand for eight-figure fees as an investigator puts the allegations well beyond the realm of aggressive posturing and into the parameters of federal extortion statutes, said criminal defense attorney Jeremy Saland of Crotty Saland PC.




"Being a blowhard is not illegal, but whether what he's claiming Nike did is fact or fiction doesn't justify trying to enrich himself with a job that doesn't help remedy a wrong suffered by a client," Saland said.




On Monday, federal officials in New York arrested Avenatti, charging the pugnacious Los Angeles lawyer with threatening Nike with a stock-price-sinking press conference about recruitment misconduct if it didn't pay up.




Avenatti, who purported to be representing the coach of a youth basketball team once sponsored by Nike, demanded $1.5 million for the client, who had recently seen Nike drop its support, according to the charges. Separately, Avenatti and another attorney — an unnamed co-conspirator since identified as celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos — also demanded Nike hire them to conduct an "internal investigation" related to amateur player recruiting.




The cost: at least $12 million and as much as $25 million. Prosecutors said Avenatti was also recorded at a March 21 meeting with Nike lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP offering to end the entire matter, with no bad publicity for Nike, for $22.5 million.




If the company didn't agree, Avenatti threatened an immediate press conference amid the NCAA basketball tournament about Nike making payments to youth players and their families, prosecutors said, an event he promised would snowball into more bad press and people coming forward with claims of recruiting malfeasance.




In a recorded phone call, Avenatti told Nike attorneys that if the company tried to negotiate a cap on the investigation fees, he would go public and "take a billion dollars off your client's market cap," according to the complaint. At a March 21 meeting in New York, Avenatti allegedly continued to wield threats and press for the investigator role, at one point asking Nike attorneys if they'd ever had "the balls of a client in [their] hands."




"Michael Avenatti may be the best lawyer in the world, according to Michael Avenatti, but there are appropriate courses of conduct to address an alleged wrongdoing, and I don't see how a demand of, 'Give me a job and pay me $12 million,' is ever going to make the client whole," Saland said.




Adam Felsenstein, a white collar defense specialist at Gallet Dreyer & Berkey LLP, called the prosecutor's narrative "very extortive," particularly on the allegation regarding Avenatti's demand to be hired directly by the company. If that element of the charges is well-founded, it would effectively leave Avenatti without a "cloak of legitimacy" that he was acting solely to resolve a dispute on behalf of his client.




The complaint "doesn't even refer to anticipated litigation. It's just, 'I'm going to reveal embarrassing information unless you pay me.' And once you start asking for money for yourself like that, you trend into extortion," Felsenstein said.




Barry Temkin of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP similarly characterized the alleged scheme as "brazen," and voiced doubt Avenatti would be able to argue that he could pressure Nike to hire him as an investigator and stay within the legal lines.




"He's going to them with a demand that they hire him even as he's threatening them with this press conference, which is screwed up on a lot of levels," he said. "It's ambulance chasing, which is unethical. It's a conflict of interest, and who would want to hire someone to do an internal investigation who is also shaking them down?"




Avenatti was arrested Monday just after he announced via Twitter an impending press conference about a "major high school/college basketball scandal" and criminal conduct "at the highest levels of Nike."




In an unrelated action, federal officials in California charged Avenatti on Monday with defrauding a client out of a $1.6 million settlement and lying to a Mississippi bank to secure loans for his firm and a coffee business.




Avenatti was released in New York later in the day after posting a $300,000 bond. He is due in court on the California case on Monday. He did not respond to multiple requests for comment Tuesday. A message seeking comment from Geragos was also not returned.




Avenatti shot to national prominence last year representing Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who took $130,000 from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to stay quiet about her affair with the future president and then sued to void the deal.




The brash lawyer seemed to relish needling Trump and others on countless cable news appearances and on Twitter. He also faced mounting legal troubles in the form of a $10 million judgment stemming from the breakup of his old firm, Eagan Avenatti LLP, and accusations from former partners that he hid millions in assets. Avenatti also split with Daniels in recent weeks.




Daniels said Monday she was "saddened but not shocked" by news of Avenatti's arrest, and that he had dealt with her "extremely dishonestly."




Despite the recent setbacks, Avenatti was back on Twitter less than 24 hours after his arrest, saying Nike had made payments to the mother of Phoenix Suns player DeAndre Ayton while he was a college player and to University of Oregon center Bol Bol.




"A lot of people at Nike will have to account for their criminal conduct, starting with Carlton DeBose & moving higher up. The diversion charade they orchestrated against me will be exposed," he tweeted. DeBose is the head of Nike's youth basketball division.




A Nike spokesperson on Tuesday referred to a company statement that it has been cooperating with a government investigation into NCAA basketball for more than a year, and would not "be extorted or hide information" relevant to that probe.




The case is U.S. v. Avenatti, case number 19-mj-2927, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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From: paul krassner
Sent: 3/29/2019 11:28:13 PM
To: Steven Gaydos
Subject: IMPORTANT ____________________________
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Importance: High
Sarah Silverman on Al
Franken, Louis C.K., Losing
Her Hulu Show and More
In the premiere episode of 'The Last Laugh' podcast, Sarah Silverman speaks out for the first
time about her Hulu show's cancelation and goes to bat for her friend Al Franken.
Matt Wilstein
03.26.19 4:12 AM ET
Katt.
Subscribe to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts
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Wearing a rainbow-striped hoodie and a "Beer Nuts" baseball cap, Sarah Silverman strode into our
Burbank recording studio ready to talk.
It had been just a few weeks since Hulu had unceremoniously canceled her weekly show I Love You,
America and the comedian's emotions were still a bit raw. But her unflappable sense of humor was
fully intact as she recounted to me how she found out the bad news and ended up revealing more than
ever before about how the streaming service treated her over the past year.
During our long conversation for the first-ever episode of my new podcast The Last Laugh, Silverman
also spoke frankly about what it has been like to see her friend Al Franken accused of alleged sexual
misconduct and attempted to clarify the controversial comments she made to Howard Stern about
Louis C.K. She reflected on some of her most iconic roles and looked ahead to what comes next.
Highlights from the interview are below and you can listen to the whole thing right now by subscribing
to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts, the Himalaya app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
On the 'heartbreaking' cancelation of! Love You, America
"It came as a surprise. We were so sure we were getting picked up. We're all super bummed about it. I
know that they did love the show, but I think what it cost compared to its popularity or the eyes that
they had on it didn't___you know, the people that make the decisions there don't have any connection to
the show. And it is just so heartbreaking because I kind of feel cut off at the knees."
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Sarah Silverman on 'The Last Laugh'
Cassandra Church/Starburns Audio
On the 'bullshit' allegations against Al Franken
"I can only just be honest and say, if I didn't know Al Franken, I'd probably be like yeah, go girl, me
too, fuck that shit. Because I do know him, I don't feel that way. So maybe I'm too close to it and just
seeing the dots not the big picture. But I just can't believe it. The U.S.O. thing is bullshit and if you
watch the sketch they did, give me a fucking break. He may be guilty of doing pedestrian comedy, I
guess, but he apologized and she accepted his apology. But it does seem that the Republican Party
and I don't think this is something to emulate at all___doesn't apologize, denies everything, admits
nothing and everyone keeps their job. And I hate that that's what we teach our children. But if you
apologize and say, 'I want there to be an ethics investigation on me and I want to do everything by the
book, this is my truth but I'm open to [the fact] that these women felt this way, I want to make this
right,' I don't know why that person then loses their job."
•
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BURN IT DOWN
Sarah Silverman Throws Hulu Under the Bus: Pck It'
Matt Wilstein
•
GIVING THANKS
Why Sarah Silverman Is 'Thankful' for Trump
Matt Wilstein
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On looking like an 'asshole' after commenting on Louis C.K.
"My experience with Louis as a teenager perhaps informs his pathology a bit. But in no way is it
analogous to crimes, to assaults, he subsequently committed that mirror it, that come from it. I was just
speaking about my own experience. And the headline was, 'He jerked off in front of me and I didn't
care.' And that's so cold and insulting and awful to the women who were hurt by his actions. So if you
clicked on it, they quoted me. But if you didn't, and nobody does, it just makes me look like an asshole.
And me looking like an asshole is the least of it. It hurt people and there was stuff that I said that I
don't think I was articulating the spirit of what I meant."
'The Last Laugh' host Matt Wilstein and Sarah Silverman
Cassandra Church/Starburns Audio
On performing stand-up about being single without sounding
'hacky'
RELATED IN ENTERTAINMENT
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Sarah Silverman Throws Hulu Under the Bus: `F*ck It'
Comedians Reveal Their Realest Selves on 'The Last Laugh'
Seth Meyers Proves Trump Is the Real 'Husband From Hell'
"It's such an '80s comedienne premise, but then it was also my truth so I was trying to reconcile with
it. It's hard to not be meta about it, because just to say 'I'm single' on stage. There's something that
feels so inherently hacky about it that I feel like I have these guilt pangs and then it just becomes a
whole other bit. It's always weird to navigate. I've always been in relationships for big chunks of time
and every time I come out I'm like a generation older and I don't know what my station is."
Next week on The Last Laugh podcast: Arrested Development and Veep star Tony Hale.
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From: Richard Kahn________________________________
Sent: 5/28/2019 3:18:36 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book claims
Importance: High
http s ://www.the guardian. com/us-news/2019/may/28/mueller-trump-ob struction-charge-michael-wo lff-b o ok-
siege-under-fire-news
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
tel
fax
cell
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From:
Sent:
To:
Nicholas Ribis
5/29/2019 2:14:44 PM
Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Importance: High
Mueller statement at 11am will be interesting - 1 think it's because of Michael wolff's new book and the
reference to a draft indictment- it probably will be helpful to arr - talk after
sent from my iPhone
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From: Richard Kahn_______________________________
Sent: 6/15/2018 1:06:12 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Trump advisors reportedly seeking a pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Importance: High
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/trump-a ... bond-king-
milken.html
Trump advisors reportedly seeking a
pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Tae Kim
'74-14130r.
Several of President Donald Trump's advisors are pushing him to pardon Michael Milken,
Bloomberg News reported Friday.
Michael Milken, 71, was known as the "junk bond king" in the 1980s and was convicted for
securities fraud.
Bloomberg said former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci,
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, senior advisor Jared Kushner and attorney Rudy
Giuliani support the pardon for Milken.
Milken has a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes. The financier, who pioneered
the market for high-yield bonds while at Drexel Burnham Lambert, was sentenced to 10
years in prison and permanently banned from the securities industry by the Securities and
Exchange Commission. His prison term was reduced to two years.
The White House and a spokesperson for the Milken Institute did not immediately respond
to requests for comment.
See the full Bloomberg News report here.
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone
Fax
Cel
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From: Richard Kahn
Sent: 6/15/2018 1:47:13 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Re: Trump advisors reportedly seeking a pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Importance: High
i requested last week not yet received
i will call again now..
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
tel
fax_________________
cell
On Jun 15, 2018, at 9:26 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
Did we get bank appraisal ayh
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:06 AM Richard Kahn
wrote:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/trump-a ... bond-king-
milken.html
Trump advisors reportedly seeking a
pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Tae Kim
%taws.
Several of President Donald Trump's advisors are pushing him to pardon Michael Milken,
Bloomberg News reported Friday.
Michael Milken, 71, was known as the "junk bond king" in the 1980s and was convicted for
securities fraud.
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Bloomberg said former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci,
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, senior advisor Jared Kushner and attorney Rudy
Giuliani support the pardon for Milken.
Milken has a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes. The financier, who pioneered
the market for high-yield bonds while at Drexel Burnham Lambert, was sentenced to 10
years in prison and permanently banned from the securities industry by the Securities and
Exchange Commission. His prison term was reduced to two years.
The White House and a spokesperson for the Milken Institute did not immediately respond
to requests for comment.
See the full Bloomberg News report here.
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone
Fax
Cell
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confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
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From:
Sent: 8/5/2009 4:25:51 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
CC: Robert D. Critton Jr.
Subject: FW: Jane Doe
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:29 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Maxwell was not served. Wexner's counsel accepted for him. Trump's staff accepted for him
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:22 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
I will let you know when bob confirms back with me.
Also, can u let me know if Wexner and Maxwell were actually personally served or if it was just someone at the location
eligible to accept.
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From:____________________________________________
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:04 AM
To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
We have a Motion to Stay re Ints and a Motion to Stay regarding Orders of May 22 and June 30.
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:59 AM
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To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
A hearing for what??
We have a depositon set that morning so I need to know what it is for??
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:54 AM
To:
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Sorry — I was unaware of this. I will try and get this information as soon as possible. Also, please advise whether
you are available for a hearing on 8/20 UMC.
From:
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:58 AM
To:
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.; Bradley J. Edwards
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
Thank you for the email, however, in briefly reviewing LM's responses, she mentions a Dr. Rishard. I have previously
asked your office to provide Dr. Rishard's contact information. I have looked for an "Office of Palm Beach Doctors" and
and a "Dr. Rishard" and have been unable to locate either. Please provide me with contact information so that I may
obtain records. Thank you.
Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
From:
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:11 PM
To:
Cc: Robert D. Critton Jr.
Subject: RE: Jane Doe
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Certified Paralegal
Florida Registered Paralegal
BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
515 N. Flagler Drive
Suite #400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
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Jeffrey Epstein, P-DG
de Financial Trust Ce
mehardaire amercain, grand
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1.1 implicated by a porn actress
Jeffrey Epstein, CEO
of Financial Trust. This
American businessman, a great
anti-Bill Clinton and the Duke
of York, was sentenced in
2008 to 18 months in prison and
had to pay millions of dollars. He was lucky that the
American justice system didn't discredit his
puma! Even after his
production. With great detail, he
confirmed having abused about twenty minors on
his estate in Florida.
HE'S IN PRISON FOR ABUSED
MINOR GIRLS
••• (A. 6." ) ...

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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 2/17/2017 6:45:14 PM
To: Thomas Jr., Landon
Subject: Re: 11111
Fun
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:42 PM Thomas Jr., Landon < wrote:
Here we go again....
http://www.politico.com/story/2o17/o2/a ... lea-235o96
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference ... e/t/landon jr thomas/index.
html
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From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Sent: 6/15/2018 1:26:04 PM
To: Richard Kahn_________________________________
Subject: Re: Trump advisors reportedly seeking a pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Importance: High
Did we get bank appraisal ayh
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:06 AM Richard Kahn <
> wrote:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/trump-a ... bond-king-
milken.html
Trump advisors reportedly seeking a
pardon for 'junk bond king' Milken
Tae Kim
Several of President Donald Trump's advisors are pushing him to pardon Michael Milken,
Bloomberg News reported Friday.
Michael Milken, 71, was known as the "junk bond king" in the 1980s and was convicted for
securities fraud.
Bloomberg said former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci,
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, senior advisor Jared Kushner and attorney Rudy
Giuliani support the pardon for Milken.
Milken has a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes. The financier, who pioneered
the market for high-yield bonds while at Drexel Burnham Lambert, was sentenced to 10
years in prison and permanently banned from the securities industry by the Securities and
Exchange Commission. His prison term was reduced to two years.
The White House and a spokesperson for the Milken Institute did not immediately respond
to requests for comment.
See the full Bloomberg News report here.
Richard Kahn
HBRK Associates Inc.
575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone
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Fax
Cell
please note
The information contained in this communication is
confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may
constitute inside information, and is intended only for
the use of the addressee. It is the property of
JEE
Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this
communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this
communication in error, please notify us immediately by
return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and
destroy this communication and all copies thereof,
including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved
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