TAKING PART IN COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
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♪ ♪ ♪ LELAND: MICHAEL AVENATTI IS
NOT DONE FIGHTING AFTER JURY
FINDING HIM GUILTY EXTORTING
NIKE.
NIKE. >> HE’S CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT TO FACING UP TO 42
YEARS IN PRISON, ON FRIDAY
FEDERAL JURY CONVICTED AVENATTI
ON 3 ACCOUNTS INCLUDING
EXTORTION, THREATENING TO EXPOSE
CORRUPTION AT THE COMPANY
INVOLVING ALLEGED PAYMENTS TO
ELITE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
PLAYERS.
PLAYERS. AFTER VERDICT WHILE DEFENDANT
MAY TRY TO HIDE LEGAL TERMS, THE
JURY SAW THE DEFENDANT’S SCHEME
ON WHAT IT WAS, AN OLD-FASHION
SHAKEDOWN.
SHAKEDOWN. HERE IS HOW HIS TEAM REACTED.
>> WE ARE OBVIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED
IN THE VERDICT IN THIS CASE,
SURPRISED BY IT BUT WE HAVE
ISSUES ON APPEAL AND WE WILL BE
PURSUING THAT AND WE STANDBY OUR
CLIENT AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE
NEXT PHASE.
NEXT PHASE. HE IS A FIGHTER A YOU ALL KNOW
-- AS YOU ALL KNOW.
>> IN APRIL HE WILL FACE CHARGES
IN NEW YORK FOR ALLEGEDLY
STEALING FROM THE BOOK PROCEEDS
OF FORMER CLIENT ADULT STAR
STORMY DANIELS.
STORMY DANIELS. >> WHAT AVENATTI DID TO ME WAS
TIP OF ICEBERG OF DECEIT.
HIS BEHAVIOR BECAME PERVASIVE
THAT THE JURY FOUND HIS TRUE
CHARACTER.
CHARACTER. NEBRASKA SENATOR BEN SASSE
WEIGHING IN, SCUM BAG AND
DESCRIBING HIM SCUM BAG AND
ORCHESTRATED ATTACKS ON BET CALF
KAVANAUGH.
KAVANAUGH. LELAND: YOU SAY THAT AS PUNCH
LINE BUT IN A WAY IT’S AMAZING
THAT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO
PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT
MICHAEL AVENATTI BEING POSSIBLE
CONTENDER FOR DNC NOMINATION AND
DIDN’T TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY.
A LOT OF TELEVISION SEGMENTS
ABOUT IT.
ABOUT IT. NOTEWORTHY WHAT HE WAS CONVICTED
OF TRYING TO DO WITH NIKE, HE
WASN’T ASKING FOR THE MONEY FOR
HIS CLIENTS WHO WERE ALLEGEDLY
VICTIMS IN THIS BASKETBALL
THING, BUT HE WANTED THE MONEY
PERSONALLY FOR HIMSELF AND
BASICALLY SAID NIKE, IF YOU
DON’T GIVE ME $25 MILLION
PERSONALLY TO RUN AN
INVESTIGATION INTO YOUR COMPANY
AND INTERNAL INVESTIGATION, I’M
GOING TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE
AND RUIN YOU ALL.
>> BEING THIS BOMBASTIC, THAT’S
NOT ILLEGAL, LOUD MOUTH, BUT
VERY OFTEN PROSECUTORS WILL TAKE
SOMEONE’S TONE AND GO AFTER THEM
AND SAY, LOOK, THIS SPEAKS TO
INTENT, SO WHEN YOU’RE SO BOLDLY
PROCESSING THAT YOU’RE CAUGHT ON
TAPE AND ALL SORTS OF -- LELAND:
HE WENT TO SEE NIKE’S LAWYERS
AND HE SAID ALL OF THE THINGS,
I’M GOING TO DO ALL THIS OR PAY
ME $25 MILLION, THAT’S
WONDERFUL, LET’S MEET IN A
COUPLE OF DAYS TO DISCUSS IT,
WALKED ACROSS THE STREET TO THE
FBI, NOW YOU HAVE EVIDENCE, BUT
AS YOU SWING OUT, HE ACTUALLY
FACES ANOTHER COUPLE OF TRIALS
AND RIGHT NOW IS STILL IN JAIL
AWAITING ALL THAT.
>> MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TOTAL
EXTORTED FROM CLIENTS ALLEGEDLY
AND IT’LL BE A ROUGH SUMMER FOR
HIM, FOR SURE.
>> B LIST CELEBRITY THERE FOR A
WHILE, WARMLY RECEIVED.
>> A BIT GENEROUS.