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Mar 21 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
There is a very good chance that most people watching have no idea who Avenatti is. Remember this @Jeopardy moment?
Speaking of Avenatti, the 9th Circuit on Friday upheld Judge Otero's order that @StormyDaniels owes Donald Trump $292,052.33 in attorney fees for the failed defamation lawsuit.
Here's a PDF of the ruling: bit.ly/3ueKZi2 Trump also owes Stormy $44k, as a California appellate court said in December. bit.ly/3E60J9X
Here’s a statement from Stormy’s lawyer Clark Brewster (@cbrew1) reminding us that this attorney fee order for Trump “is due to her former attorney Michael Avenatti not perfecting a timely appeal in January of 2019.”
Donald Trump's lawyer Harmeet Dhillon (@pnjaban) on the 9th Circuit affirming Stormy Daniels owes Trump $292k in attorney fees. She says the lawsuit was "pushed so aggressively by Avenatti for purposes that certainly did not benefit his client."

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Mar 22
I’m back at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles for what should be final day of prosecution testimony in U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s trial. Federal agents are final two witnesses, after jurors heard Monday from his ex-friends Toufic Baaklini and Elias Ayoub. ⚖️🧵⚖️ Image
Regarding scheduling, after the jury left yesterday, Fortenberry’s lawyer Glen Summers told Judge Blumenfeld the defense is “trying to make really efficient decisions, even to the point of cutting witnesses” and asked if “the government can do the same.”
Summers said prosecutors have been asking witnesses to narrate what’s on screen. (This gets back into the lack of objections. There is a lot going on that would have garnered full-throttled objections in other trials I’ve covered. Most prominent are narrative answers.)
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Mar 21
I’m in Los Angeles today for Nebraska U.S. Rep. @JeffFortenberry’s criminal trial, and jurors heard this morning from professional Republican political fundraiser Alexandra Kendrick about the illicit $30,000 at the heart of the case. I’ll share updates on this thread. ⚖️🧵⚖️ Image
Kendrick is of High Cotton Consulting, which was acquired by largest GOP consulting firm in U.S. back in 2017, according to this article: themissouritimes.com/axiom-strategi…
Kendrick worked with Fortenberry 2015-18, including the 2016 fundraiser in LA. Image
That 2016 LA fundraiser is where, according to testimony, the $30,000 from foreign billionaire Gilbert Chaguery was funneled to Fortenberry, who was on the Foreign Affairs Committee, through Toufic Baaklini, the founder of In Defense of Christians.
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Mar 20
Amid the #J6 Chapman subpoena fight with Judge Carter, John Eastman just took the mic as the dinner speaker at the California Republican Assembly’s convention here at the Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel in Buena Park, California. The crowd is small but very receptive.
An InfoWars banner was the first thing I saw when I walked up the stairs to the dinner room.
Here’s the scene. Eastman started by talking about authoritarianism and COVID restrictions and has since moved into the 2020 election and the Arizona audit.
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Mar 19
Michael Avenatti's lawyers in the Stormy Daniels case want his May 24 sentencing delayed by 60 days, so they can "prepare and obtain mitigation related to loss-amount arguments" which is crucial to wire fraud prison sentences. Filed tonight. Image
As I said back in February, New York prosecutors have said the total dollar amount loss here is $148,750, the amount of @StormyDaniels' third book payment that to this day she's never received.
Avenatti also took Stormy's second $148,750 payment, but he ended up giving her the money a few weeks later, the same day he got a $250,000 loan from @markgeragos, as lawyer Sean Macias' testimony revealed in the Stormy trial in Manhattan last month. bit.ly/3rEwy6P Image
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Mar 19
Chapman's lawyer filed his opposition to John Eastman's request for discovery from the university, including depositions, about his previous election work. "This will take considerable time and impose significant burden and expense on Chapman." bit.ly/3wptezn
Here's the request from Eastman that @ChapmanU is opposing, filed last night. He's worried the judge is going to say he can't claim privilege over any of the emails subpoenaed by @January6thCmte because they're Chapman's property. bit.ly/3ua87Oz
ICYMI, here's my last @lawdotcom story about Judge Carter's decision to privately review John Eastman's Chapman Jan. 4-7, 2021, emails and decide which can be released to the #J6 committee. bit.ly/3pT9GPE
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Mar 18
“What if he was distracted? What if he just wasn’t paying attention?” Here’s my @lawdotcom article on the opening day of @JeffFortenberry’s federal criminal trial. bit.ly/3tilugu
I didn't make the trip up for Fortenberry trial today but will be back next week. They are only going until 1 today, and I expect Glen Summers' cross of @FBI agent will take up day. Summers was running into issues yesterday, with Judge Blumenfeld telling him to tone it down.
Summers ran into the same kind of problems in the last 15 minutes or so of his 40-minute opening, with Judge Blumenfeld repeatedly warning him not to argue the evidence. (It was all a shining example of why opening statements should NOT be called opening arguments.)
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