Michael Avenatti’s fall from grace continued Thursday, as the man who rose to prominence as Stormy Daniels’s lawyer, and was even touted as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a jury found him guilty of extorting Nike.

“While the defendant may have tried to hide behind legal terms and a suit and tie, the jury clearly saw the defendant’s scheme for what it was — an old fashioned shakedown,” Geoffrey Berman, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said after his February 2020 guilty verdict.