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Nike Extortion Trial Avenatti Proffers
Debose As Showing SDNY Has Been Misled
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 8 – When after three
days of jury selection the
trial of Michael Avenatti for
allegedly extorting Nike began
on January 29, Assistant US
Attorney Robert Sobelman told
the selected jurors that
Avenatti was supposed to look
out for the interests of his
client, but he did not - he
had a weapon, social
media. More on 1st day
on Patreon here.
On
February 8, Avenatti's lawyer
Scott Srebnick wrote to Judge
Paul G. Gardephe with proffers
concerning Avenatti's proposed
witnesses. Here's as to
Carlton Debose: "1. Debose
arranged for Nike to pay
handlers and family members of
amateur basketball players,
including players on
California Supreme. 2. Debose
directed Coach Franklin to
create and submit to Nike
false invoices that concealed
those payments. 3. When
debriefed by attorneys for
Nike during its internal
investigation, Debose advanced
a false narrative regard to
those payments. 4. Debose
advanced the narrative as part
of Nike so-called cooperation
with the government
investigation. 5. Debose knew
that Nike might proffer his
narrative to federal
prosecutors and agents who
were investigating Nike, in an
effort to persuade the
government to take no action
against Nike. 6. As a result,
in part, of Debose’s false
narrative, Nike has not
satisfied its commitment to
the government to provide full
and truthful cooperation." But
why not Jamal James? Also
proffered are Casey Kaplan,
Tina Glandian as a proxy for
Mark Geragos, and the elusive
John Slusher - More on Patreon
here.
On February
6, ostensible victim in chief
Coach Gary Franklin began to
be cross examined by
Avenatti's lawyer Scott
Srebnick. Franklin repeatedly
said, I don't remember, and
Can you repeat the question?
This even to whether he had
seen a Jeffrey Auerback memo
to file which Franklin's own
lawyer produced in discovery.
Day's live-tweeted thread here.
Meanwhile
also on February 6, as
jugglingly covered
by Inner City Press, the SDNY
prosecutors' cooperator in
their Adidas prosecutions,
Marty Blazer, got a "time
served" sentence urged by AUSA
Boone. He did a fine job, soon
to be seen on HBO, he said.
But where are the prosecutions
of Nike? More on Patreon here.
On February
5 the Nike lawyer who attended
the meeting in New York with
Avenatti and Mark Geragos was
on the stand. Under cross
examination by E. Danya Perry
he admitted knowing that
invoices were bogus, to Shaun
Manning to move players to
Peach Jam. Day's live tweeted
thread here.
Judge
Gardephe said, You are
objecting to a document you
the prosecutors put into the
record. Again the payments to
Deandre Ayton, mother and
handler Melvin McDonalnd, to
Bol Bol and to Shaun Manning
Brandon McCoy came up. People
wanted to know more but there
are limits. More on Patreon here.
On January
31 Inner City Press published
the March 25, 2019 draft
settlement agreements, with
dollar figure left blank, here
on Scribed
and on Patreon for
download here,
as well as the more than one
hour video of Avenatti's and
Mark Geragos' meeting with
Nike's outside counsel, Scott
Wilson of Boies Schiller, here.
Inner City
Press has also published three
audio records of Wilson's
conversations on March 20,
2019 with Geragos, and
Avenatti, saying "I'm not
f*cking around." Audio I,
II
and III.
More including transcripts on
Patreon here.
We will
have more on this, here and on
Patreon.
Inner City Press live-tweeted
the start of the proceedings,
here,
and since and will have more.
More
on Patreon here. The
case is US v. Avenatti,
19-cr-373 (Gardephe).
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