Michael Avenatti, the onetime lawyer for Stormy Daniels, was once seen as a hero of the anti-Trump resistance. His on-camera braggadocio and his insistence that his client’s hush money arrangement could spell danger for Donald Trump’s public perception — if not his freedom — made him into a celebrity of sorts on the left. But then a federal indictment in 2019 changed everything for Avenatti. He ultimately was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison over a wild scheme that involved his... Read this story
