Stormy Daniels is having a great week. Not only did she just do a 7 figure directing deal with Wicked Pictures, but her ex-lawyer just got convinced of stealing from her.
Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from Stormy Daniels.
Prosecutors alleged that Avenatti, who helped negotiate the $800,000 advance for Daniels’ October 2018 book “Full Disclosure” defrauded his former client by instructing her literary agent to send two of the installments of the advance totaling nearly $300,000 to an account controlled by him, rather than directly to Stormy Daniels, without her knowledge.
Speaking to cameras outside a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Friday, Avenatti said he is “very disappointed” in the verdict.
Avenatti is scheduled to be sentenced on May 24.