Michael Avenatti releases expenses list for legal work

[brooklynite]

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[Sneederbunk]

1. That's a lot of tricks.

[brooklynite]

2. Stormy Daniels is an actress, unless you have evidence to the contrary

[Sneederbunk]

4. A thespian indeed.

[PJMcK]

10. Perhaps she offends your sensibilities

Nonetheless, her career is legal and lucrative. Ms. Daniels has done very well in a volatile and somewhat dangerous business. Her claims against Trump are clearly with merit as courts have not thrown out her cases.

However, it's interesting that Trump keeps such company, isn't it? I'm hard-pressed to recall similar companions for Presidents Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter or Ford.

[nolabear]

11. A woman who can do what she damn well pleases.

[Bluesaph]

5. The lead paralegal makes $191 per hour?

GMAFB!

[Bayard]

6. I thought all the legal fees were pro bono

Same as the work he was supposed to be doing for families separated at the border. Haven' heard another peep about that.

[Roland99]

7. $100k in travel costs?? Who the f*** is he? Zinke?

[Jarqui]

8. In the last four years, I dealt with a lot of legal firms

At last count it was 53? firms in four countries.
A number of them I did significant tire kicking with to find the fight firm.
They included criminal, tax, real estate, probate/estate, insurance, personal injury, defamation, etc - mostly for others as an executor
It is really easy to rack up big legal bills in a short period of time.

One eye-opener is the security costs of $352,000 but I'm sure they had threats so I'm not shocked.

Overall, the numbers for a few concurrent cases don't completely shock me. They strike me as high - about double what I would have guessed. But there is not enough detail to conclude much firmly one way or the other.

[Perrenial Voter]

9. More than half is for security...

That says a lot about the effectiveness of rightwing violence.