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Michael Avenatti adds another felony conviction to his resume

Con man Michael Avenatti is now a convicted felon.  It is not a surprise to anyone paying attention but it is a surprise to the folks at CNN and MSNBC who pushed Mr. Avenatti down America' throats and treated him as a hero and a potential U.S. president.  

Hs is a convicted felon.  He is a twice convicted felon having been convicted in February of last year for attempting to extort Nike.  His latest conviction?  CNN reports:

 

Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from Stormy Daniels.

Prosecutors alleged that Avenatti -- who helped negotiate the $800,000 advance for Daniels' October 2018 book "Full Disclosure" -- defrauded his former client by instructing her literary agent to send two of the installments of the advance totaling nearly $300,000 to an account controlled by him, rather than directly to Daniels, without her knowledge.

Speaking to cameras outside a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Friday, Avenatti said he is "very disappointed" in the verdict.

 

 CNN and MSNBC loved him:

The Media Research Center has determined that Avenatti made a whopping 254 television appearances over the course of a year. This, after he entered the news cycle in early 2018 as the outspoken lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, who locked horns with President Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen over an affair she claims to have had years ago with Trump.

Avenatti appeared most frequently on CNN, which welcomed him an astonishing 121 times. MSNBC also had a high tally, having him on 108 times. He made 24 appearances on broadcast news; 12 on ABC, seven on CBS and five on NBC.

Avenatti appeared on Fox News twice.

 

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