Avenatti gets 30 months for extorting Nike. Developing.
"'TV and Twitter, Your Honor, Mean Nothing': Tearful Fallen Trump Foe Michael Avenatti Receives Two-and-Half-Year Sentence for Extorting Nike" lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t… via @lawcrimenews
The government did not recommend a particular sentence, but prosecutors previously intimated that they concurred with the probation department's call for an eight year sentence.
So as many of you are surmising, the judge's sentence is much lighter than that.
Judge Gardephe noted multiple reasons for that, including avoiding sentencing disparities with a man who was never charged: Mark Geragos, Avenatti's co-cousel in the case.
He also cited Avenatti's brutal pretrial lockup in MCC, when it was in lockdown years ago.
Michael Avenatti's sentencing for extorting Nike is about to begin.
Read more about his sentencing judge recently rejecting his bid for a new trial on a number of grounds—including the fears of an ex-employee turned state's witness.
This is the backstory of one of the files Duggar is accused of receiving and possessing, made by convicted child rapist and human trafficker Peter Scully.
In this episode, I interviewed a correspondent who covered Scully's crime scene in the Philippines.
It's less the story of Duggar's case than the human trafficking operation behind what one federal investigator described as one of the "Top Five worst of the worst" files allegedly found on his computer.
—and the financiers, alleged accomplices and networks that enabled it.
Tucker would have his viewers believe that this PERSON ONE is an FBI operative rather than someone whose identity is discernible via a Google or Wikipedia search.
As has been widely reported, that person's name is Stewart Rhodes, and more information has been publicly released about other Oath Keepers in the case since it began. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
A pretrial hearing is about to begin in the case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who currently wants detailed info about the jury pool's media diet.
AG Merrick Garland delivers his remarks on domestic terrorism in a speech dedicated to the Jan. 6th siege of the Capitol. justice.gov/live
"The number of open FBI domestic terrorism investigations this year has increased significantly," Garland notes.
Garland also cites an unclassified IC finding racially motivated and militia extremists are most lethal domestic violent extremist threats. lawandcrime.com/high-profile/d…
"The national strategy recognizes that we cannot prevent every attack. The only way to find sustainable solutions is not only to disrupt and deter, but also to address the root causes of violence."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Lyle Dohrmann is now up, saying that the government has provided a "large, first volume" of formal discovery.
There's a second volume in the works, "somewhat soon."
Followed by a third volume.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper wants to know why there is such a large volume for Barnett's case.
Dohrmann says it's not all footage, and some of the size is due to "the defendant's prominence being displayed" in news outlets and interviews, she said.