Michael Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients

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24. "We can't even seem to convict a former president who stole secret documents"

Avenati was originally indicted in 2019 and eventually plead guilty 3 years later to get to this point now -

Justice Department to drop 31 remaining fraud charges against Michael Avenatti following guilty plea


By Kara Scannell
Published 3:06 PM EDT, Tue June 21, 2022

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The decision brings Avenatti one step closer to resolving his legal troubles that started in 2019, when he was hit with three federal indictments in a six-week period. The federal charges upended Avenatti’s ascent as the pugnacious attorney who represented Stormy Daniels as she went public about a hush-money scheme to silence her alleged affair with Donald Trump. (Trump has denied the affair.)

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/avenatti-fraud-charges-dropped/index.html

Meanwhile the 45 documents issue was not even confirmed (at least by NARA) until 2021 (not long after their expressing concern to 45's lawyers about returning stuff just before the transition and continuing to do so for over a year after the inauguration) and from that point forward, this case has been jammed up in the courts, with the latest action last Thursday that finally saw a panel of judges from the 11th Circuit ditch the "Special Master" (although that decision was expected to most likely be appealed regardless of whether it makes sense or not ).