By: Cynthia Shinerberg
Let it be known that sleazeball attorney Michael Avenatti is not happy with his current accommodations.
As if anyone cares.
Avenatti was found guilty back on February 14th on all charges of trying to extort 23.5 million dollars from Nike. According to Legal analysts, he faces a maximum of 42 years behind bars.
Now comes word that porn actress Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer has been shipped out of the downtown Manhattan jail that he had been complaining about. Weeks ago, Avenatti was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, which his attorney Scott Srebnick called “sheer dehumanization.”
The lawyer’s lawyer even put the complaints in writing, noting that the temperature was too cold for Avenatti, who had to use three blankets. He also had not been permitted to shave. Avenatti was later moved to a cell in 5 South, after another one of his lawyers complain that Avenatti had reached a Breaking Point.
“[Avenatti] was in a cell where everything he does is watched. He showered in view of cameras. He couldn’t control the lights (which reportedly never turn off),” Srebnick noted. “There was no privacy.”
“One hour per day, Monday through Friday, Avenatti was escorted to a room characterized as a “solitary cage” — a cramped, dark space with a stationary bike and a TV. No time was spent outdoors. The exercise room, said Srebnick, “has a slat through which the wind blows,” reported The New York Post. “At Avenatti’s new home in 5 South, general population privileges include 92 hours out of the cell per week, during which prisoners have unlimited (but monitored) email access, cell phone privileges, television privileges and library access.”
Truth be told, there is not a lot of sympathy out there for Avenatti, whom the pathetic Democratic Party once viewed as presidential timber. “Avenatti has referred to himself as Icarus, but that’s a rather romantic self-appraisal,” noted lowellsun.com. “There’s a difference between flying too close to the sun and being a common crook. Last week, after a two-week trial that made hardly a ripple in the press, a jury of his peers found Avenatti guilty of attempted extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, and honest services wire fraud.”
The news site called it “a little ironic that the trial of Michael Avenatti, who not long ago commanded prime time hits on CNN and MSNBC, was nudged aside by Trump’s own impeachment trial. Adding insult to injury, the once-dapper Avenatti spent much of the past year awaiting trial in solitary confinement, reportedly in the same New York prison cell once occupied by Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo.”
