In just ten weeks, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who is representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Trump, has racked up an impressive 147 interviews on broadcast and cable news programs, according to Newsbusters. But the tide may be beginning to turn against the "creepy porn lawyer," as Fox News' Tucker Carlson calls him, as lawsuits and complaints stack up against him.
According to Fox News, the State Bar of California is investigating Avenatti after a complaint was filed against him regarding unpaid taxes.
Fox News on Wednesday obtained an April 18-dated letter verifying the existence of the investigation—unrelated to his representation of Daniels.
“The complaint against attorney Michael J. Avenatti has been reviewed and forwarded to the Enforcement Unit for further investigation and prosecution, if warranted,” said the letter from the state bar, written by Supervising Attorney Anand Kumar and reviewed by Fox News.
Also, according to TMZ, Avenatti is being sued by his ex-law partner for $2 million.
According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Avenatti's being sued by Jason Frank, a former partner at Egan Avenatti ... Michael's law firm, because he claims Avenatti stiffed him out of a couple mil.
This comes after The Daily Caller over the weekend posted a blistering expose on Avenatti's past business dealings, which are reportedly "littered with lawsuits, jilted business partners and bankruptcy filings." According to the Caller, people who have worked with Avenatti describe him as "ruthless, greedy and unbothered by ethical questions."
Avenatti allegedly cheated a coffee vendor out of $160,000 and was sued for misrepresentation by actor Patrick Dempsey. The shady lawyer was also sued for engaging in some kind of “pump and dump scheme to deprive federal and state taxing authorities of millions of dollars.”
Like someone with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), Avenatti has an abnormally developed capacity to "dish it out," but is completely unable to take it. The DCNF's unflattering report prompted the attorney to lash out at the writers, threatening them with a lawsuit.
- Let me be clear. If you and your colleagues do not stop with the hit pieces that are full of lies and defamatory statements, I will have no choice but to sue each of you and your publication for defamation. During that process, we will expose your publication for what it truly is. We will also recover significant damages against each of you that participated personally. So if I were you, I would tell Mr. Trump to find someone else to fabricate things about me.
“If you think I’m kidding, you really don’t know anything about me. This is the last warning.”
Avenatti's inflamed, over-the-top reaction provoked journalists from across the ideological spectrum to come to The Daily Caller's defense.
Avenatti has appeared dozens of times on CNN and MSNBC, but has spurned Fox News, likely out of fear that he would be facing something a little more challenging than the puffball interviews he's grown accustomed to on MSNBC and CNN.
According to Newsbusters, 74 of Avenatti's 147 appearances have been on CNN, making him perhaps the most frequent guest in the network's history.
No guest — not Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders in 2016, nor Adam Schiff in 2017 — received anything close to the outpouring of free media coverage that CNN has bequeathed to Avenatti.
The saddest part of the whole sordid affair is that polls show the public really. doesn't. care.
They can see what's going on here, but they don't want to see it.
So I guess we can forgive the MSM for not jumping on this bombshell allegation from Tasha Reign, the star of an adult film directed by Stormy Daniels late last year:
Reign claims that in November of last year she was assaulted by one of Daniels’ crewman and that he admitted to what he did in front of Daniels, who was the film’s director. Reign says that after the crewman’s admission, Daniels did nothing to him but shamed her for making the alleged abuser cry. Worse, according to Reign, Daniels then lied to the production company, Wicked Pictures, with the claim that nothing had happened.
Apparently in the hope of making the matter go away, Avenatti released a statement this week claiming Wicked had done a full investigation and Daniels was cleared of all wrongdoing.
Wicked, however, contradicted Avenatti and says the investigation is ongoing.
Then there's this:
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STORMY DANIELS WILL PERFORM NAKED WITH TRUMP STATUE IN OREGON.
