Creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti will be in federal court today, accused of cheating his former client Stormy Daniels out of 300-thousand dollars. Daniels is the former porn star who said she slept with ex-President Trump years before he was elected and was paid off to keep quiet about it. She says Avenatti engaged in wire fraud and identity theft to keep money from her that she made from a book.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say Avenatti, 50, embezzled $300,000 in book contract proceeds intended for Daniels, in part by forging her signature in a letter to an agent.
Avenatti, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud and identity theft.
Avenatti was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in a $25 million extortion case in New York but was just released from prison due to COVID concerns.