For a normal person, finding out that you’re not being charged with criminal conspiracy with a foreign government would be great enough news. But to find out that your former mistress’s attorney is facing criminal charges from two separate U.S. attorneys for two separate sets of crimes? That’s just raw, unadulterated schadenfreude for the president of the United States.
Part-time #Resistance hero and full-time Trump foe Michael Avenatti finally graduated from media grifting and refusing to pay back creditors to big boy crimes, and he now faces upwards of a century in the clinker. A U.S. attorney’s office in California has charged Avenatti with embezzlement and fraud, and the Southern District of New York alleges that the former 2020 hopeful attempted to extort Nike for tens of millions of dollars.
