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DOJ says Michael Avenatti was arrested - again - because of a "series of alleged financial transactions" that violated the terms of his pretrial release in California.
Federal prosecutors in New York say they didn't know that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles thought Avenatti had violated the terms of his release, or that they had secured a warrant for his arrest. (Avenatti is facing separate indictments in both places.)
Oof. DOJ says it has probable cause to believe that Avenatti - who has already been indicted in three separate criminal cases - "has committed federal offenses while on pretrial release."
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Brad Heath
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Yowsa this decision from the 7th Cir., just hammering the Board of Immigration Appeals. Its "members should count themselves lucky that [plaintiff] has not asked us to hold them in contempt, with all the consequences that possibly entails."

media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExe…
I mean, wow ....
You rarely see the U.S. government lose a case this badly. Or this quickly - the panel issued its decision eight days after oral arguments.
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DOJ told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in December that it now thinks "there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause" to substantiate two of its four applications to wiretap ex-Trump aide Carter Page.
Judge Boasberg says in a newly-declassified order that DOJ has "concluded, in view of the material misstatements and omissions, that the Court's authorizations in [two Page FISAs] were not valid." DOJ didn't take a position on whether the other two were lawful.
The FISC ordered the government to produce a bunch of additional information, including how it will wall off whatever info it gained from the Page wiretaps, and to explain what "related investigations" that might be going on about those FISA applications.
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Another federal court has ruled that it was not outrageous misconduct for the FBI to operate one of the dark web's largest child-porn sites for two weeks. (The FBI did it to plant malware on users' computers.)

The government, it says, has gotten away with much more.
Decision: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memo…
(These decisions almost always come down to the fact that the government has previously done something worse.)
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I shouldn’t laugh....
Quickly goes to check CDCA Case - but here’s the SDNY notice to the Court

ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/127126198…
Public Drive
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Oh SHIT in a SDNY filing there were multiple references to his “assistant” their iPhone & CDCA transcripts
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lmao remember when Avenatti was the media darling?
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