Thread by @meghanncuniff

Just filed: Michael Avenatti's sentencing memorandum in his California criminal case. He's asking for six years (72 months).
"...defendant has already been made an example of on a national stage, repeatedly."
Prosecutors' not yet in but should be soon.

The full memo is 75 pages. There's also 175 pages of exhibits that include this photo of Avenatti as a child.

Here's the full memo. "Defendant’s cataclysmic fall and the resulting humiliation has played out in a very public way, across three years, nationwide and, due to the way he was charged (across three cases and two coasts), repeatedly." bit.ly/3COZ5Mn

Included as an exhibit is this letter Avenatti wrote @StateBarCA in August "to voluntarily relinquish my license to practice law in California and my membership in the State Bar of California effective immediately..."

Prosecutors, meanwhile, are calling for Avenatti to serve 17.5 years in prison, on top of his sentences out of New York. The 210-month sentence is a break from what they say the guidelines range is.

Here's the full memo. Much more TK. Story soon @lawcrimenews. drive.google.com/file/d/1DwM19f…

My @lawcrimenews article will be up soon, and wow there is a lot to look at in these memos. This is new from @USAO_LosAngeles, Avenatti lying to Michael Eagan, the other name partner for the now bankrupt law firm Eagan Avenatti LLP, in a post-indictment call recorded by the IRS

One big thing about prosecutors' recommendation: They're asking (and so is probation) for extra prison time for obstruction of justice, pointing to a tweet Avenatti sent after a @finneganLAT article and to a subpoena he served the wife of a client turned victim during 2021 trial

I admit to giving myself a little cheer when I read this part about the Philip Layfield sentencing, because I absolutely called out that case for its similarities to Avenatti back in February.

Prosecutors are also pointing to that seemingly phantom tweet from Avenatti back in June when calling for 17.5 years in prison.

Then there's this tweet, where Avenatti says he'll release his tax returns if elected president of the United States. Prosecutors point out that he hadn't actually filed his taxes in years.

Another USA exhibit: A threatening email Avenatti sent one of the few journalists who reported on his fraudulence, @lewiskamb at @seattletimes. "I have a spotless record with the State Bar."

Avenatti to his paralegal: "Call this guy and confirm he received the below email."

Here's a very interesting exhibit: Fresh theft allegations against Avenatti from back in August. By a former client who's currently represented by ex-Avenatti partner Filippo Marchino, who's accused in bankruptcy court of conspiring with Avenatti to hide his assets.

Here is my full @lawcrimenews article on the dueling sentencing recommendations for Michael Avenatti. 17.5 years on top of his current five? Or six years concurrent with the five? It'll be up to Judge Selna to decide: bit.ly/3CRzXEI

Here's a 114-page filing accompanying the prosecution memo that is basically a collection of @USAO_LosAngeles' receipts documenting Avenatti's elaborate ripping off of his own clients. bit.ly/3Mwt7b5

And here's a 137-page filing that was filed with the memo, with exhibits that include transcripts of Avenatti's perjurious testimony in judgment debtor exams etc. A lot in here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

One of Avenatti's exhibits is a letter he got while at George Washington University Law School inviting him to join the Moot Court Board because of "your outstanding performance in the 1997 First-Year Moot Court Competition."

Avenatti also includes this page from the @gwlaw website, though prosecutors point out in their memo that Avenatti's donation to the law school came from money he stole from his co-counsel.

Here is the @courtlistener (the best!) link to Avenatti's 175 pages of exhibits, which include supportive letters from friends and family. There's also a @gwlaw letter from 1998 inviting him to join the law review. bit.ly/3epR8E0

One of the letters is from Texas lawyer @ricardo_de_anda, who Avenatti work with in 2018 to help children separated from their parents at the border. "...the real and true Michael Avenatti is a caring and respectful man who empathizes with the downtrodden."

There's also a letter about Avenatti's role in reuniting children separated from their parents at the border. "She refused to believe it when we told her that Mr. Avenatti had been arrested. In her mind, he is probably
the kindest man in the world."
Also: "I recently learned..."

There's also this letter from a woman who said Avenatti reunited her with her six-year-old son in Guatemala after he was taken from her at the U.S.-Mexico border. "He treated us well and he gave us faith. I know that with the help of God, he will get through this."

Here's a letter from Rick Kraemer, who is pretty well known in the SoCal legal community.

"People who know I am friends with Michael ask me why I still communicate with him. I tell them the same thing my grandfather used to say ‐ there is good in everyone."

There's also a nice letter from a client who recalls Avenatti winning a $42 million jury verdict. The judge threw it out and they ended up with nothing. "I get it, things like that happen."

Avenatti also included articles about his cases and a transcript from his @60Minutes interview w/ @andersoncooper about faulty medical gown lawsuit. (Anderson is good friends with book agent Luke Janklow and introduced Avenatti to him, that's how the Stormy book deal came about.)

Anyway, there's a ton of stuff in here and I probably shouldn't just stay up all night tweeting about it, but I think a major wow is the transcript of Avenatti's call with Michael Eagan in which he admits forging Eagan's signature on a settlement presented in bankruptcy court.

Eagan has always been a mystery. He's never spoken publicly about Avenatti and had little to do with the firm when Avenatti was criminalizing it, besides his last name being all over it, everywhere, all the time. Full transcript starts on page 62 of 137. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I'll close the thread for tonight with a link to my @lawcrimenews article, which really does cover all this pretty comprehensively. You can just read it and skip all the actual documents if you want. bit.ly/3CRzXEI

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