New York prosecutors file for lawyer Michael Avenatti to start serving prison sentence in Nike extortion case
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/nik...michael-avenatti-to-start-serving-prison.html
- New York prosecutors urged a judge Friday to order California lawyer Michael Avenatti to begin serving a 2 1/2-year prison term, more than a year after he was convicted of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike.
- Avenatti, 50, was initially allowed to postpone reporting to prison because he faced trial just days later in California on charges he defrauded clients and others there
- Avenatti was representing a California amateur basketball league coach when prosecutors said he threatened to use his access to media exposure to muddy the sportswear giants name if it didn’t pay him millions of dollars
