MICHAEL AVENATTI SENT TO PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED EXTORTION OF NIKE.

ICHEOKU says creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti, whose rise to fame from relative obscurity was by taking on a sitting United States President Donald John Trump has been sent to prison. Recall that he used information from his infamous client, hooker Stormy Daniels, in perpetuating his attacks on the president. He later attempted to extort Nike of $25 million, using another client coach Gary Franklin's claim, for which he has now been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. He will also do additional three years of supervised release upon the completion of the two and half years sentence. HIs fall was epicurean as he went from being cable televisions and social media darling straight to being a pariah who nobody wants to be seen with or associated with in a twinkle of eye. 

He was obsessed with power of the television and in fact became infatuated with it that he couldn't have enough of the attention which came with it. It became a drug of choice for him and to get a sizable does of it, he obsessively piled on the president, cursing, huffing, puffing and sometimes even believing that he is already the next rightful occupant of the White House. It indeed got so much into his head that he lost his sense of reasoning as a lawyer by not weighing the pros and cons of his actions. He relished it so much to the point of becoming reckless and it ended him like a punctured balloon. He was completely deflated, lost everything and by the time he finishes his prison term, both the already sentenced and the three more likely to come, he would have been a completely spent man with nothing else holding him up.

There was no television opportunity which he refused or even thought twice before saying yes to and at a time, he was rumored to be actively lobbying for his own show on CNN, believing that he has become "too popular" that his show will be an instant smash hit. He was wearing thousands of dollars designer suits, apparels and expensive leather Italian shoes and adorning ultra expensive wrist watches just to look the part. As it turned out he was not rich as most of  his lifestyle were purchased on credit and with his personal debts piling up, he became more desperate on how to keep on funding his assumed lifestyle. 

The accumulating debt has to be paid off, so he got more creative on how to make quick and easy money, leading to so many frauds including the attempted  blackmail of Nike into paying him $25 million as hush money. As the judge said, his conduct was simply outrageous in hijacking his client's claims and using them to further his own financial gains agenda, making money regardless of the propriety. 

The convicted and now sentenced Stormy Daniels' lawyer has three other criminal cases which are awaiting trial, including one on July 20th, 2021 in California for stealing almost $10 million from five former clients including a paraplegic; and another for bankruptcy, bank fraud and tax fraud. Thereafter, it is back to New York where another criminal case awaits him in January 2022  for cheating his infamous client Stormy Daniels of #300,000 proceeds from her book contract. 

As one writer described him, Michael Avenatti is "a once obscure lawyer who in 2018 became a cable news and social media fixture, disparaging then President Donald John Trump." Good enough he is now receiving the rewards of his bargained notoriety, which he achieved by his desperate pursuit of fame and stardom. He deliberately violated his oath and ethically duty as lawyer, which he owed his client Stormy Daniel as well as to the legal profession, by litigating a non disclosure agreement just to get on television. Other unprofessional conducts followed and he ended up in criminalities. Now, who laughs last between him and the president as he goes to prison for two and half years; and will be likely also convicted on the other three remaining criminal charges which aggravated will surely get him a lengthy term.  

Addressing the court before his sentencing, Michael Avenatti said: "TV and Twitter means nothing. Everyone wants to ride in a limo with you but only a very few are willing to take a sit next to you on a bus. Even fewer are willing to take your calls from prison. I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships and my life. And there is no doubt I need to pay. I am truly sorry for all of the pain I caused to Mr. Franklin and others. I lost my way. I betrayed my own values, my friends, my family and myself. I betrayed my profession. I became driven by the things that don’t matter in life. Over the past two years, I have thought to myself, why did this need to happen. I’ve learned that all the fame, money notoriety in the world is meaningless. Most people want their children to be proud of their fathers, but in the case of my own three children, I want them to be ashamed of me, because that will mean that their moral compass is exactly what it should be." 

ICHEOKU says if only he had thought these thoughts earlier and before he drank the cooled of CNN may be people would empathize with him. But no, he was possessed by the demon of limelight and he saw the availability of lights, camera and action as a golden parachute to land in the White House and he grabbed it with his two hands. Now, it is time to pay the price for his notoriety and like he rightly admitted, he is entirely on his own now. He brought it upon himself and it was deliberative. Hopefully CNN will still be around when he completes his prison sentences so that he can come and share his prison experience on the network or go there to introduce a book he wrote about life in behind bars. ICHEOKU says all the best Micky.