Attorney Michael Avenatti said he’s “nervous” and “scared” about the prospect of going to prison for the rest of his life, but is “confident” he will be exonerated
In an interview that aired Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” the celebrity attorney who rose to prominence as an antagonist of President Donald Trump maintained his innocence, asserting that his name will eventually be cleared because “the facts are on my side.
New York prosecutors allege that Avenatti threatened to reveal allegations that the company illegally bribed high school basketball players and their families — claims at the center of a wide-ranging federal investigation — unless Nike hired Avenatti and an unnamed co-conspirator to conduct an “internal investigation” of the company for somewhere between $15 million and $25 million.Sign Up
Avenatti threatened to go public with the information on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings call and at the start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament to maximize “the potential financial and reputational damage his press conference could cause to Nike,” prosecutors said. The attorney on Monday morning tweeted out plans for a press conference the following day.
“But what I will say is the way this has been framed is not accurate,” he said. “It's just not accurate. And in fact, from the very first moment that we had any meeting with Nike, we made it clear that under no circumstances would we participate in anything that did not require full disclosure to investigators and the federal government.”
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