| Nike Law Firm Boies Schiller Worried
Deandre Ayton White Wash Exposed Avenatti
Jury Hears
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 30 – 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.
In cross
examination on January 30,
Avenatti's lawyer Howard
Srebnick asked Scott Wilson
who was a lawyer representing
Nike with Boies Schiller in
March 2019 if his jaw dropping
wasn't more about his firm's
"white-wash" investigation of
Nike, in which no one was
fired, more than Avenatti's
multiple F-bomb
uses.
Day 2 thread here;
more on Patreon here.
In
fairness, Day showed Avenatti
now only swearing and bragging
about holding a client's balls
in his hands - there was also
the $950 an hour blended rate
and the twice quoted
statements, "I don't give a
f*ck about the kids."
At day's
end Judge Paul G. Gardephe
indicated he will allow some
such questioning on continues
cross examination on January
31. The US Attorney's Office
is not to speak with Wilson
overnight. Can he, unlike the
jury, read the Internet? The
questions will involve whether
the in-house investigation
including any interviews of
Franklin or Auerbach, and
perhaps the specifics of the
$10,000 to Deandre Ayton's
mother in Phoenix.
Why were the Adidas
official and coaches
prosecuted and jailed, and
nothing from the US Attorney
on Ayton and Bol Bol? Watch
this site.
After some back and forth on
January 29 about meeting at
Hudson Yards or Geragos'
office on Fifth Avenue, the
meeting was held. Wilson said
Avenatti began by saying he
had evidence of Nike paying
the number one draft pick in
the last NBA
draft.
Wilson quoted
himself asking Avenatti, Are
who was that?
Assistant US Attorney Matthew
Podolsky asked Wilson why he
asked.
To throw
Avenatti off, Wilson said. But
apparently it didn't. Avenatti
said Deandre Ayton and got
back to the demands. Ulimately
the FBI was called in to
secretly record Avenatti. And
the US Attorney's office never
went after Nike, after jailing
Adidas' Jim Gatto.
There's been
discussion of subpoenas from
the SEC, but as captioned "In
Re Athletic Apparel"
companies. Inner City Press
live-tweeted the proceedings,
here,
and will have more. More
on Patreon here. The
case is US v. Avenatti,
19-cr-373 (Gardephe).
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