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1/ wow - this is devastating and I don’t see how @MichaelAvenatti weasels out of resposbility for these alleged these crimes, including stealing from four clients: justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/a…
/2 The rules governing client trust accounts are very strict. They must be in balance; you have to account for every penny including credit card or wire transfer fees. Trust accounts are not a piggy bank an attorney may use to borrow from for any purpose ... /
/3 @MichaelAvenatti has not only allegedly stolen from his clients, including a severely disabled client, but this case and these alleged acts have the potential to degrade confidence in the legal profession overall, particularly attorneys who help consumers, employees... /
/4 injured people, seek justice and recover monetary compensation for their injuries. I hope the public understands that most plaintiff attorneys do NOT do this with their trust accounts and live a lifestyle funded by money that doesn’t belong to them...
/6 crickets from the breathless anchors who madly crushed on the bald egomaniac last year when he fed into their TDS-fueled narratives. Privately, lawyers across the political spectrum were cringing, knowing some kind of reckoning was coming. This behavior is NOT NORMAL even for/
/7 Master-of-the-universe-$3000 suited-preening-LA-celebrity-lawyer-types. I hope there are enough assets to satisfy his client victims and any other victims after that — partners, shareholders, taxpayers ... and I hope that public trust in lawyers doesn’t suffer too much .../
/8 as a result of this fiasco. It’s just one of many plaguing our profession.
