Trump Just Got IMMENSE Revenge On Stormy’s Crooked Attorney Was Hiding It All Along!
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Stormy Daniels attorney, 47-year-old Michael Avenatti is now facing significant legal troubles of his own and may find himself in need of counsel. Avenatti faced allegations of dubious business dealings as the owner of a flailing coffee chain. Since his investment firm bought bankrupt Tully’s Coffee for $9.15 million at auction five years ago, Avenatti’s company has been named in more than 50 different state and federal legal complaints, including commercial lawsuits, breach of lease actions, as well as warrants for unpaid taxes, according to court records.
Tully’s has shuttered the doors of multiple stores leaving employees jobless, landlords unpaid, and customers left holding worthless loyalty cards. And the list of grievances against Avenatti continues to grow ever longer. Now a complaint has been submitted to the California State Bar Association — with a copy sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle. Attorney David Nold of Bellvue, Washington alleges Avenatti carried out an illegal “pump and dump” scheme through his Washington state-registered Tully’s ownership firm, Global Baristas US, LLC.
The complaint accuses Avenatti of fleecing nearly $6 million in federal and state tax withholdings while he ran the company. The money was intended to be held in trust for payment of quarterly taxes from the paychecks of Tully employees. The complaint also claims Avenatti fraudulently transferred $100,000 from Tully’s operation last year in an effort to retain counsel for his California law firm’s unrelated bankruptcy.
Nold is representing Bellevue Square, Ellenos yogurt and multiple other clients that have recently sued the Tully’s firm, states – “Michael Avenatti’s actions in connection with Global Baristas US, LLC have caused significant damage to the State of Washington, the federal government and numerous private entities and they implicate his fitness to practice law.”
The complaint, first reported by The Seattle Times, said Avenatti and Global Baristas faced a lien for unpaid federal taxes worth roughly $5 million, claiming taxes were withheld from workers’ paychecks but not paid to the government. The complaint called into question Avenatti’s “fitness to practice law.”
Fox News confirms that the California State Bar is indeed investigating Avenatti. ‘According to the state bar’s website, an investigation is launched based on a complaint only if the state bar attorney ‘sees evidence of a serious violation.’ But Avenatti told Fox News on Wednesday that the complaint is ‘completely baseless’ and called Nold an ‘unethical hack of a lawyer.’
Nold, who filed the initial complaint, represents Bellevue Square, which has been in a landlord-tenant dispute with Tully’s Coffee. The Superior Court for the State of Washington found Nold to be in ‘contempt of court’ following an ‘intentional disobedience of a court order.’ Nold disclosed Avenatti’s deposition transcript to The Seattle Times, according to a court filing obtained by Fox News.
‘The court ruled that I should not have given the full Avenatti deposition transcript to the news media,’ Nold told Fox News last week. ‘The court found nothing wrong with sending the bar complaint.’
Since the coffee chain purchase, Tully’s has shuttered its stores (though the closures were described as temporary) as Global Baristas has dealt with numerous lawsuits.”
Not only is Avenatti being investigated by the California State Bar, he is also being sued by a former law partner over an alleged breach of contract. Former law partner Jason Frank filed a complaint this week in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming that Avenatti owes him $2 million for failing to make good on a settlement agreement for a previous dispute.