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Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:
Former celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her litigation against former President Donald Trump, was sentenced in Orange County today to 14 years in federal prison for tax and wire fraud.
U.S. District Judge James Selna said Avenatti’s sentence will run consecutively — or on top of — the five years he is already serving for convictions in New York for an extortion scheme against Nike, and for stealing from Daniels.
Avenatti was sentenced Monday for “for defrauding his clients and for obstructing IRS efforts to collect payroll taxes from his coffee business,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said on Twitter.
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BREAKING: Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for defrauding his clients and for obstructing IRS efforts to collect payroll taxes from his coffee business. https://t.co/Dbb5yVOkYh
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