A jury convicted high-profile lawyer Michael Avenatti on all counts in his Nike extortion trial on Friday. Prosecutors maintained Avenatti threatened to use his fame to stage a news conference and deliver claims that Nike executives were corrupting college basketball by funding payments to elite young players and their families — unless he was paid millions of dollars to conduct…

The high-profile lawyer was convicted of trying to get more than $25 million from Nike in what prosecutors called “an old fashioned shake down.” NBC New York’s Michael Avenatti reports.

Michael Avenatti’s lawyers told jurors in a closing argument that the combative California attorney was following a client’s wishes when he threatened to expose Nike’s role in a college basketball scandal

A Los Angeles amateur basketball league’s founder has told jurors that Michael Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.

A lawyer for Nike testified Thursday that he felt like a stickup victim when well-known attorney Michael Avenatti demanded up to $25 million to stop him from igniting a media scandal by publicizing claims that Nike employees paid the families of elite high school basketball players. The lawyer, Scott Wilson, is the first witness in the criminal trial of the…

Jury selection will continue Wednesday in the attempted extortion trial of an attorney whose representation of porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal fight with President Donald Trump catapulted him to fame

Some potential jurors claimed to know nothing of the lawyer, but one acknowledged being influenced by “Mr. Trump” and called Avenatti “opportunistic”

A judge says he can’t leave jurors at Michael Avenatti’s extortion trial to think that an immaculate conception made the California lawyer famous

Michael Avenatti, the one-time attorney to Stormy Daniels, is being held in a federal jail cell once occupied by the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Avenatti’s lawyer said in a court filing Monday. In a letter to a federal judge in New York requesting that his client be moved to Metropolitan Correctional Center’s general population, lawyer Scott...

California attorney Michael Avenatti has been rearrested for alleged bail violations, prosecutors in New York told a judge late Tuesday.

With a trial approaching, a judge denied a request Monday from attorney Michael Avenatti to toss out charges alleging he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to muddy its name. U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe said in a written ruling that the indictment adequately alleges that “Avenatti used threats of economic and reputational harm…

California attorney Michael Avenatti remains on track for his first criminal trial next month after entering a not guilty plea Tuesday to the latest charges stemming from his negotiations with the sportswear giant Nike. Avenatti is accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the company. Prosecutors had dropped conspiracy charges in a rewritten indictment. He also faces trial…

Lawyer Michael Avenatti wants a judge to dismiss criminal charges that he extorted Nike, and he is blaming his arrest on what he calls vindictive prosecutors as he releases material his attorneys say support his claims the sportswear company was paying amateur athletes.

Michael Avenatti told reporters President Donald Trump is the real criminal after the California attorney appeared at a New York hearing on criminal charges he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels of book proceeds.

The pugilistic and embattled attorney Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty Tuesday to defrauding his most famous client, porn star Stormy Daniels, and seized the spotlight to toss a barb at President Donald Trump. Avenatti barely spoke during his three appearances before federal judges in New York, except to answer a few procedural questions.

Celebrity lawyer turned defendant Michael Avenatti has two court appearances Tuesday. Rana Novini reports.

Michael Avenatti, the attorney who rocketed to fame through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels in her battles with President Donald Trump, was charged Wednesday with ripping her off. Federal prosecutors in New York City say Avenatti used a doctored document to divert about $300,000 that Daniels was supposed to get from a book deal, then used the money...

Attorney Michael Avenatti is expected to be arraigned Monday on charges that he stole millions of dollars from clients, cheated on his taxes and lied to investigators.

In a story published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times, Avenatti is accused of hiding a check for $2.5 million from Alexis Gardner – who he represented in a settlement case with Whiteside.

An heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune was arrested Tuesday in connection with her work with an upstate New York self-improvement organization accused of branding some of its female followers and forcing them into unwanted sex. Michael George reports.