Judge: Michael Avenatti must pay $ 4.85M in the lawsuit of the former lawyer
Judge: Michael Avenatti must pay $ 4.85M in the lawsuit of the former lawyer
Lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels. Michael Avenatti must pay $ 4.85 million to a lawyer who worked at his former law firm, a judge in California ruled on Monday in an order that personally holds the potential presidential candidate in a lawsuit for late payment.
The Los Angeles judge ordered the payment on the same day a separate judgment was issued that evicts Eagan Avenatti LLC from its Southern California office after four months of unpaid rent.
In the case of late payment, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis Landin ruled that Avenatti personally secured an agreement with attorney Jason Frank, who said that Eagan Avenatti incorrectly declared his earnings and that he was owed millions of dollars.
Avenatti, best known for representing Daniels in her lawsuit against the president Donald Trump After an alleged case in 2006, he did not appear at Monday's hearing and never presented arguments in the case.
He told The Associated Press that Frank owes him and the company $ 12 million "for his fraud." He did not give details and declined to comment further. It is unclear if Avenatti has filed any litigation in the matter against Frank, whose lawyer said that Frank does not owe Avenatti a penny and that saying that is defamatory.
Avenatti, who is playing with a possible presidential candidate in 2020, can appeal the ruling, but since he never presented arguments as to why he should not pay the 4.85 million dollars, any of those efforts would be "dead in the water," he said. Frank's lawyer. , Eric George.
"He has managed to delay this for years," said George. "At the end of the day, this is the money you owe, no matter how you try to turn it, go back to the fact that you took money, it was not yours and now there is a fault that says you owe it to my client."
Frank had worked at the former Avenatti firm under an independent contractor contract and was supposed to charge 25 percent of his annual earnings, along with 20 percent of the fees paid by his clients, according to court documents.
"It will be important to watch him and know the sources of money that come in, see what his assets are and take it from there," said George.
Meanwhile, Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Moss issued an order on Monday to rescind Eagan Avenatti's lease at the Newport Beach office and order the law firm to pay $ 154,000 for four months of late rent. No one appeared in court on behalf of the firm.
Monday's developments came five months after a judge in the US bankruptcy court ordered the company to pay Frank $ 10 million. The $ 4.85 million for which Avenatti is now personally responsible is in addition to that ruling.
In July, the Justice Department accused Avenatti of making false statements in the bankruptcy case and said his former law firm owed more than $ 440,000 in unpaid federal taxes.
Avenatti's lawyer said at the time that the matter had been resolved. The Justice Department insisted that liquidation negotiations continued, but the debt was still owed.
The ruling against Avenatti comes a week after a federal judge dismissed Daniels' defamation suit against Trump, saying the president made a "hyperbolic statement" against a political adversary when he posted on Twitter a composite outline that Avenatti published.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued Trump in April after she said that a sketch composed of a man who said he threatened her in 2011 to shut up an alleged affair was a "scam job." Avenatti has appealed the sentence.
The defamation lawsuit is separate from another lawsuit that Daniels filed against Trump, which is ongoing. Daniels was paid $ 130,000 as part of a confidentiality agreement signed days before 2016. choice and is suing to dissolve that contract.
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Balsam reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Catherine Lucey contributed from Washington.
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