Michael Avenatti: Biography
Michael John Avenatti was born on February 16, 1971, in Sacramento, California. Avenatti spent his early childhood in Colorado and Utah. He moved with his family to Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, in 1982, where he attended Parkway Central High School. After graduating in 1989, Avenatti attended Saint Louis University for a year before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with a B.A. in political science in 1996. He attended George Washington University Law School, where he graduated Order of the Coif and first in his class with a J.D. in 2000. While at GW, he worked with Professor Jonathan Turley on constitutional issues relating to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In 2003, George Washington University Law School established the Michael J. Avenatti Award for Excellence in Pre-Trial and Trial Advocacy, an annual award given to the member of the graduating Juris Doctor class who demonstrates excellence in pre-trial and trial advocacy. Avenatti also received George Washington University's prestigious Alumni Recognition Award in 2010.
Stormy Daniels−Donald Trump scandal:
In March 2018, Avenatti filed a lawsuit on behalf of adult film actress Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 non-disclosure agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006. The non-disclosure agreement had been negotiated in the final days of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. Avenatti has been a frequent guest on talk shows and cable news programs to discuss the case, logging 108 CNN and MSNBC appearances between March 7 and May 10 of 2018. He also gained a large following on Twitter; he is known for ending his tweets about the case and other Trump-related matters with the Twitter hashtag "#basta"–the Italian word for "enough."
The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal is a political scandal involving a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) signed by U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 United States presidential election.
In May 2018, Avenatti released records showing multiple large payments, some from major corporations, into the bank account Cohen had used to pay Daniels. Cohen's lawyers subsequently argued that some of the transactions released by Avenatti involved a different Michael Cohen, but they did not dispute the larger deposits. The US Treasury Department opened an investigation into how Avenatti gained information from Cohen's private bank records. Avenatti had also filed a motion to join the federal investigation of Michael Cohen. The federal judge issued Avenatti "a choice" that if he wanted to join he would have to end what the judge called his "publicity tour" of TV appearances and tweets about the case. Avenatti withdrew the motion and appeared on MSNBC that same day.
In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including one related to the scandal, and he stated under oath that he paid Daniels "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," meaning Trump.
September 7, 2018: Cohen offers to rescind and invalidate the non-disclosure agreement with Daniels, in return for Daniels refunding the $130,000 Cohen had paid to her.
September 8, 2018: Lawyers for Trump have declared that Trump will neither enforce the non-disclosure agreement nor contest Daniels' claim that it is invalid.
September 10, 2018: Michael Avenatti argues lawsuit over 2016 nondisclosure agreement must be allowed to proceed in federal court because neither President Trump nor his former personal attorney has faced “any true consequences or a meaningful inquiry into the truth” in the case.
September 12, 2018: Stormy Daniels announces a book titled Full Disclosure about her life which she says will include details of her tryst with Donald Trump.
Stormy Daniels−Donald Trump scandal:
In March 2018, Avenatti filed a lawsuit on behalf of adult film actress Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 non-disclosure agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006. The non-disclosure agreement had been negotiated in the final days of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. Avenatti has been a frequent guest on talk shows and cable news programs to discuss the case, logging 108 CNN and MSNBC appearances between March 7 and May 10 of 2018. He also gained a large following on Twitter; he is known for ending his tweets about the case and other Trump-related matters with the Twitter hashtag "#basta"–the Italian word for "enough."
The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal is a political scandal involving a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) signed by U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 United States presidential election.
In May 2018, Avenatti released records showing multiple large payments, some from major corporations, into the bank account Cohen had used to pay Daniels. Cohen's lawyers subsequently argued that some of the transactions released by Avenatti involved a different Michael Cohen, but they did not dispute the larger deposits. The US Treasury Department opened an investigation into how Avenatti gained information from Cohen's private bank records. Avenatti had also filed a motion to join the federal investigation of Michael Cohen. The federal judge issued Avenatti "a choice" that if he wanted to join he would have to end what the judge called his "publicity tour" of TV appearances and tweets about the case. Avenatti withdrew the motion and appeared on MSNBC that same day.
In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including one related to the scandal, and he stated under oath that he paid Daniels "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," meaning Trump.
September 7, 2018: Cohen offers to rescind and invalidate the non-disclosure agreement with Daniels, in return for Daniels refunding the $130,000 Cohen had paid to her.
September 8, 2018: Lawyers for Trump have declared that Trump will neither enforce the non-disclosure agreement nor contest Daniels' claim that it is invalid.
September 10, 2018: Michael Avenatti argues lawsuit over 2016 nondisclosure agreement must be allowed to proceed in federal court because neither President Trump nor his former personal attorney has faced “any true consequences or a meaningful inquiry into the truth” in the case.
September 12, 2018: Stormy Daniels announces a book titled Full Disclosure about her life which she says will include details of her tryst with Donald Trump.
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