Prosecutor: Michael Avenatti saw dollar signs in Nike fraud
NEW YORK (AP) — A deep-in-debt Michael Avenatti threatened to deploy his big social media and television presence like a “modern weapon” to try to extort up to $25 million from Nike, a prosecutor claimed Wednesday while a lawyer for the California attorney told jurors at a trial's opening not to criminalize his client's “aggressive, tenacious, demanding behavior.”
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