Turns out Michael Avenatti is a MAJOR conman.
WHOOOOO WUDDA THOUGHT?
This guy isn’t just a hack, he’s a total scumbag that owes a lotta people a lotta money.
You’ve been parading around on CNN every 40 minutes, Quacklord. You really didn’t think the truth would come out?
Well… it just did.
According to the Daily Caller:
Much of the developments surrounding Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump have focused on the business dealings of attorney Michael Cohen, but an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveals that Daniels’ counsel, Michael Avenatti, has his own questionable history.
Avenatti’s past is littered with lawsuits, jilted business partners and bankruptcy filings. People who have worked with the lawyer described him to TheDCNF as ruthless, greedy and unbothered by ethical questions.
This dude is a bona fide HACK.
EXACTLY what you’d think of when faced with the idea of a smarmy attention-seeking and money-grubbing lawyer.
Dillanos Coffee CEO David Morris claimed last Tuesday that Avenatti never paid him for over $160,000 worth of coffee that Dillanos supplied to Avenatti’s company. “So @StormyDaniels hot shot lawyer Michael owes my small company @Dillanos $160,179 for coffee,” Morris wrote on Twitter. “He talks a big talk about integrity. We trusted him.”
Daily Caller has a lot more on that here.
It seems that some kind of agreement has now been reached, but Avenatti is denying he’s ever done anything wrong.
The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday interviewed Avenatti over the phone on several topics including Morris’s accusations, which Avenatti denied. “I don’t owe Dillanos coffee anything. I personally don’t owe them anything,” he said. “So that’s nonsense.”
“I PERSONALLY don’t owe them anything.”
That’s (not so great) lawyer talk for “but my business does. I refuse to take personal responsibility for this.”
We see right through your crap, Creepy Porn Lawyer.
A spokesperson for Dillanos told TheDCNF that Dillanos’ new agreement was with Avenatti personally but declined to disclose any details of the arrangement. Avenatti declined to comment on the reported agreement.
So he’s shushing people up.
Isn’t that what he’s soooo upset Trump did? Pay Stomy money not to talk?
HAHAHAHAHA.
Patrick Dempsey hates his guts too. It’s all so weird.
Avenatti first purchased Tully’s in 2013 after going into business with actor Patrick Dempsey. The pair purchased the coffee chain through a parent company, Global Baristas LLC, closing the deal on June 30, 2013. Dempsey sued Avenatti just 10 weeks later.
10 weeks, guys. JUST 10 WEEKS LATER.
Is that a record for “shortest amount of time it ever took to realize a business partner was a complete POS?”
It might be.
“My decision to become a member and manager of Global Baristas was based, in part, on Michael Avenatti’s representation that he would provide both the capital to fund the entire Tully’s acquisition and sufficient working capital to allow Global Baristas to operate the Tully’s Coffee stores once the acquisition was completed,” Dempsey said in an August 20, 2013, affidavit.
“Michael Avenatti never notified me that he intended to have or caused Global Baristas to borrow $2,000,000 for working capital, nor did he notify me that he planned to have or caused the company to pledge substantially all, if not all, of its assets to secure any loan,” Dempsey charged. Avenatti denied the accusations but agreed to a settlement just three days later.
Avenatti is a lying, cheating, scumbag.
But who’s surprised?
David Nold, a Seattle attorney representing several Tully’s vendors, filed a complaint against Avenatti with the California State Bar on March 26, accusing him of fraud.
FRAUD?! I thought this d-nozzle was all about “integrity”!?
“In essence, he bought a company out of bankruptcy and then used it for a ‘pump and dump’ scheme to deprive federal and state taxing authorities of millions of dollars,” Nold claimed.
Niiiiiice.
Those who have worked with Avenatti describe an individual obsessed with fame and willing to use unethical methods to win a case.
Again… not surprised. Remember when he thought photobombing Sarah and Kellyanne was a good idea?
What a SCHMUCK
“He honestly believes he can get up and say or do anything he wants and there’s no repercussions — largely there’s not,” said one individual who has worked with Avenatti in the past.
“I know this guy; he doesn’t care about anybody but himself. He loves the attention. It’s his whole lifestyle.”
He’s in it for the fame.
And CNN is spoonfeeding him exactly what he wants.
An individual who worked with Avenatti pointed to his work in a number of high-profile cases like going up against Jim Carrey and Paris Hilton as examples of his strategy of garnering as much attention as possible.
In the case of Carrey, Avenatti represented a family claiming the actor was responsible for his girlfriend’s drug overdose and subsequent death. That suit was eventually dropped without Avenatti’s client collecting any damages.
He doesn’t CARE if it’s a valid case or not.
He just wants air time, and he’ll do anything for it.
Yet Avenatti hasn’t limited his career to law. Outside of experimenting in artisanal coffee, he’s also dabbled in professional car racing.
This strategy, according to those who know him, helps Avenatti project an image of success, even if his ventures like Eagan O’Malley & Avenatti, LLP — which eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017 — aren’t successful.
Two other lawyers associated with that firm have cut off business dealings with Avenatti, who now appears to be a solo practitioner.
Could he be any more of a scumbag?
Maybe.
And surely THAT will come out soon enough, too.