Well this is all going splendidly for him.
There was always something shaky about Avenatti, but why try to run for President in the middle of this lawsuit? Bizarre.
Edit: When it rains, it pours. DB is reporting millions federal and state taxes owed (law firm and personal), and personal past-due rents.
This legal situation appears to be related to a firm he used to be associated with, not personal.
But the nooz has to frame it so it looks bad on Avanatti.
And I’m sick that the president is using tax payer $ for partisan politics on a daily basis. I hear the handlers would rather have him doing that than messing up somewhere else getting into other mischief.
Cool.
Anybody else getting tired of this chump?
I think if i didn’t see him on my Teevee or on the intertubes again I’ll be ok with that.
Might be the end of presidential aspirations. What goes up must come down.
The spotlight may illuminate, but it also can burn. (Fake zen Koan). He’s a ripe target for deep investigation because he’s become so full of himself. He started off fun, but he took himself and the attention a little too seriously.
Did anybody seriously think that Stormy and this guy were saintly? No. It was crazy how honorable they were in comparison to Trump. That should not be mistaken for honorable. He is exactly as he seemed to be. No one should be thinking he should be president. If he brings pain to Trump, I thank him for his service. He may be a patriot and even a good American with some admirable qualities. That does not mean he does not also have some very serious flaws. We need to stop looking at people in two ridiculous extreme categories. People can be ordinary, flawed, even disreputable and deplorable and yet still not be the horrible thing that is Donald Trump.
Well in the case of Trump, scum floats.
Never got on the Avenatti bandwagon. Something didn’t feel right.
The presence of a band, for starters.
Nothing has changed. I know it is tempting to battle a complete narcissist with another complete narcissist, but our bench is not very deep in this regard.
The firm that was a partnership of his and the other guy. This is a partnership dispute. Partnership that fell apart with a huge boom. Business divorce. Plates are flying. And all of that.
I was under the impression that the first $10 mil judgment was more of a “the court knows there is no money but pay anyway!” The case was about the payment that the partnership law-firm was to pay to the other guy upon his leaving and didn’t. It didn’t pay because there was no money. There was no money because Avenatti left. And the firm went defunct. Avenatti started a new firm and the other guy is furious about that. I’ve not looked at this court decree - it may be the same deal?
Whether this is a deliberate vengeance against the other guy or the other guy’s against Avenatti or just reality catching up with the other guy that he’s not going to get his way - that I don’t know There is a lot of stuff that we don’t know. And, possibly, we shouldn’t.
The taxes issues are likely related to the partnership dispute. I’m not going to research. I don’t care that much.
But I agree, if someone wants to call Avenatti a crook, get evidence. At present time there is not enough evidence to call him that. And if they scream anyway, it makes them look like Trump.
I warned people not to get too much into Avenatti and received everything from sideways looks to outright hostility. He never was some sort of savior.
Avenatti overreached. Plus, he’d have done better to stay out of the Kavanaugh business. He muddied the water just by being who he is. He should have advised Julie Swetnick to hire another lawyer.
His 15 minutes is overdrawn.
TPM published the complaint in this case back in May. It’s an interesting read.
The distilled version (from the plaintiff’s viewpoint) is that Avenatti’s firm fraudulently hid its finances from the plaintiff (a lawyer at the firm) to avoid paying him his proper percentage of profits and fees. As the date for depositions and trial approached, the firm went into involuntary bankruptcy in a maneuver that the arbitration judge said had “a stench of impropriety.” Finally, they settled and Avenatti personally guaranteed the settlement payments. But he didn’t pay.
Not paying what’s owed and using the courts to delay, delay, delay. Who does that remind you of?
Up, another publicity hound, but the legal skills are outpaced by the desire to see his name in print. Reminds me of someone who he is always bashing.
I am not a proponent of “going high” when they go low, but I don’t want to go quite as now as Avenatti.
He already cost us Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court with his horrible attention seeking, hopefully he goes away before he causes issues in 2020.
Lots of “outright hostility” in suggesting following Avenatti was not such a good idea. I doubted his legal competence when Trump “removed” Stormy’s case from CA State Court to a Bush, Jr. Judge in Federal Court. Rather than getting it remanded, Avanatti filed a counter-claim, which gave the Republican Judge the ability to rule on the case. I though that was a big mistake, and I was right.
Most lawyers would have simply moved to remand, but Avenatti did not have time between seeking the limelight to get it done.
Too bad, another porn star left high and dry by in this case a big Dick (vs. the last one a little handed, little dick).