Avenatti Compares Case Against Him to Cockroach-Infested Food
Fallen celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is on trial for allegedly stealing almost $300,000 from his star client Stormy Daniels, compared federal prosecutors’ charges against him to a plate of infested food during closing arguments on Wednesday morning.
“To conclude, I will leave you with this: I’m Italian. I like Italian food,” Avenatti told jurors at the end of his summation before he was cut off by Judge Jesse Furman, who advised him, “Mr. Avenatti, please stick to the evidence in this case.”
But Avenatti was undeterred in his dining analogy, in just one of many dramatic moments of his wire fraud and aggravated identity theft trial—which heard testimony about Daniels’ new project as a paranormal investigator, poltergeists, and a haunted doll named Susan.
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