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Jose Garcia

(2,598 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 03:31 PM Apr 2019

Avenatti accused of embezzling nearly $2 million that NBA player paid ex-girlfriend

Source: LA Times

When Hassan Whiteside of the Miami Heat wired $2.75 million to Michael Avenatti in January 2017, the pro basketball player intended most of the money to go to his former girlfriend, Alexis Gardner.

Avenatti was Gardner’s attorney. An actress and barista, she’d hired him just a few weeks before to negotiate a settlement of a potential lawsuit against Whiteside. It’s unclear what she would have alleged. Avenatti quickly struck a $3 million deal, and the $2.75 million was Whiteside’s first payment.

Avenatti, prosecutors say, was entitled to take just over $1 million in legal fees, leaving the rest for Gardner.

Instead, they allege, Avenatti hid Whiteside’s payment from her and immediately took $2.5 million to buy a share of a private jet.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-avenatti-hassan-whiteside-embezzlement-20190421-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Avenatti accused of embezzling nearly $2 million that NBA player paid ex-girlfriend (Original Post) Jose Garcia Apr 2019 OP
Disappointing, but not surprising. liberalmuse Apr 2019 #1
Maybe As a Repuke! DoctorJoJo Apr 2019 #2
Seems Like Only Yesterday He Was Being Serenaded with Avenatti2020 by Some Dems. Indykatie Apr 2019 #3
This seems SO FLAGRANTLY fucked up, while also SO easy to catch ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #4
His jet was confiscated a few days ago in Santa Barbara. I wonder if he has a drug problem among Glimmer of Hope Apr 2019 #10
Well, I must say, thinking you'd get away w/something THIS clumsy and obvious ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #11
Bi-polar needs to be ruled out dixiegrrrrl Apr 2019 #19
He is scum. vsrazdem Apr 2019 #5
Trump operates in the same way.......... Bengus81 Apr 2019 #6
LOL Skittles Apr 2019 #7
Hi there! Good to see you. yardwork Apr 2019 #17
HOWDY YARDWORK Skittles Apr 2019 #18
Shortly after the Stormy D story broke, the LA Times did a fairly thorough bio of Avenatti... Hekate Apr 2019 #22
I've said it before - I think Avenatti and Stormy were motivated by the same thing Skittles Apr 2019 #23
I'd love to see an apology from all those who slammed me LONG ago when i said this guy was dirty. oldsoftie Apr 2019 #8
If true, he's scum. truthisfreedom Apr 2019 #9
Who benefits from this accusation? Who would want to destroy him? Who's a psychopath? n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2019 #12
Oh good grief. Codeine Apr 2019 #13
It is possible that he's a critic of Trump AND a scumbag, you know. They're not mutually exclusive. Jedi Guy Apr 2019 #14
My thoughts exactly. Nt Crabby Appleton Apr 2019 #15
Yes not fooled Apr 2019 #20
He's been indicted w/36 counts. Then the IRS is coming after him. Honeycombe8 Apr 2019 #16
Wow not fooled Apr 2019 #21
The people he stole money from? Jose Garcia May 2019 #24

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
1. Disappointing, but not surprising.
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 03:57 PM
Apr 2019

The one good thing he's done was put some of Trump's corruption on the front page for awhile, but truthfully, people have been saying all along Avantti was himself corrupt. I didn't want to believe it. Guess he won't be running for President anytime soon.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. This seems SO FLAGRANTLY fucked up, while also SO easy to catch ...
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 04:30 PM
Apr 2019

I have to wonder whether, you know, this might not be bullshit.

A Private Jet? Really?

Glimmer of Hope

(5,823 posts)
10. His jet was confiscated a few days ago in Santa Barbara. I wonder if he has a drug problem among
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:22 PM
Apr 2019

other issues.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
11. Well, I must say, thinking you'd get away w/something THIS clumsy and obvious ...
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 08:41 PM
Apr 2019

Sure sounds the work of someone on drugs ... if it indeed happened like this.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
19. Bi-polar needs to be ruled out
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 12:35 AM
Apr 2019

assuming a drug history.
Tho, actually, people with a coke/speed history are often mis-diagnosed as bi-polar when evaluated, if drug use is not considered.

I caught a strong whiff of Scaramucci like behavior when he started acting very aggressive about the Stormy case, then suddenly we are hearing presidential ambitions, it all came on pretty fast, which made me go hmmmm.

then again, he could be a hot shot lawyer who fell in love with his own bullshit. That and L.A. happens a lot.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
6. Trump operates in the same way..........
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 04:51 PM
Apr 2019

Paying construction workers 75% of what's due or just not paying them. He knows they'll settle instead of paying a lawyer ten times what the remaining 25% would be.

Avenatti is a crook,but no less of one than a setting President.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
22. Shortly after the Stormy D story broke, the LA Times did a fairly thorough bio of Avenatti...
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:05 AM
Apr 2019

Hubby pointed it out to me, and I read it too. Bottom line for us: he was always really smart, also a smart-ass, and so sharp he was bound to cut himself some day. Looks like that day has come.

I'm sorry for his clients, like Stormy Daniels and the one in this case. They were abused -- and he then abused them as well.

Skittles

(153,164 posts)
23. I've said it before - I think Avenatti and Stormy were motivated by the same thing
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:48 PM
Apr 2019

and that's the last I will say about those two

oldsoftie

(12,553 posts)
8. I'd love to see an apology from all those who slammed me LONG ago when i said this guy was dirty.
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 06:35 PM
Apr 2019

But that'll never happen.

Jedi Guy

(3,193 posts)
14. It is possible that he's a critic of Trump AND a scumbag, you know. They're not mutually exclusive.
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 09:38 PM
Apr 2019

Opposition to Trump doesn't automatically make someone a good person. Furthermore, not everything is part of some grand conspiracy theory. Odds are he's being accused of this because he's a scumbag and a grifter who steals from his clients. This is merely one of many similar accusations.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
20. Yes
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 01:14 AM
Apr 2019

One thing that can be said for him--he wasn't president or president-elect when he (apparently) stole money.

e.g. where'd all of the inaugural funds go, red don?


Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
16. He's been indicted w/36 counts. Then the IRS is coming after him.
Sun Apr 21, 2019, 10:44 PM
Apr 2019

This stuff is in bank records. His former firm is suing him, too, I think.

My guess is that he's going to prison. He's done some serious embezzling from his clients, and maybe others. I feel for the ones he stole from. They may never get their settlement money.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
21. Wow
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 01:16 AM
Apr 2019

sounds like drugs or a mental disorder, or both. To think that he could get away with something like that.

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