Michael Avenatti, a former attorney for Stormy Daniels and convicted felon, charged the movie star with using forged business records, wire fraud, and false transfers to mislead former president Donald Trump of money she reportedly received from a documentary on Tuesday.
Avenatti’s startling declaration, which was made public as his former client testified against Trump in his business information trial on Tuesday, when he is accused of a total of 34 business documents falsification charges, which Avenatti also accuses Daniels of.
Regarding Stormy Daniels ‘ evidence, below is my speech. Does DA Bragg do charges against her for misrepresentation of business records, scam, etc. photograph. twitter.com/ELPNzfMsIC
— Michael Avenatti ( @MichaelAvenatti ) May 7, 2024
He claimed that Sarah Gibson, a developer, approached him about making a video about Daniels in June 2023. IMBD lists , the chairman of the 2024 video Stormy on Peacock as Sarah Gibson.
” I was especially interested in knowing whether the project would be genuine and good, or whether it would be just another breath item that would portray Daniels favorably while disregarding the details and defaming Donald Trump. If the job was the latter, he said near the top of his speech,” I wanted nothing to do with it.”
Attorney Michael Avenatti, who is representing an reported R. Kelly target, speaks to reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago after the R&, B vocalist entered a not guilty plea to all 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Monday night, Feb. 25, 2019. ( Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun- Times via AP )
Avenatti said Gibson should be questioned initially if Daniels was being paid, adding that if she was, he did not want to join because he believed that may lead to a “one-sided” outcome.
The imprisoned prosecutor, who was sentenced to 14 years in 2022 after being found guilty of stealing millions from his clients, claimed Gibson had made up a scheme in which Daniels would receive a covert salary for her part in the video because she owed Trump a sizable sum from a judgment he had been attempting to acquire:
Ms. Gibson informed me that Daniels was being paid for the documentary, but that Daniels, Gibson, and others had come up with a strategy that would allow Daniels to be secretly paid while keeping the money ( s ) from Trump and his attorneys because she owed Trump hundreds of thousands of dollars from a judgment that Trump was trying to collect from Daniels.
Avenatti added that Gibson” told me that they had fictionally optioned the rights to Daniels ‘ book and then routed the money Daniels demanded through a fabricated” trust” set-up in the name of Daniels ‘ daughter- all to hide the money from Trump and avoid paying the judgment.”
Avenatti said Gibson was “admitting” engagement in “multiple overt criminal acts” during the alleged conversation:
A woman I’ve never met or spoken to before admitted to me that Daniels, she, and others had committed numerous overt criminal acts (state and federal ), including wire fraud, fraudulent transfers, and falsification of business records in an effort to defraud Trump and avoid paying him what he was legally due. Due to the fraud, I declined to participate in the documentary.
The disgraced former attorney wondered how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could “possibly rely on Daniels ‘ testimony,” alleging she is “frauding of fraud and recently falsifying business records, which is a crime.” There is every reason to believe” what Gibson allegedly told him on the afternoon of June 25, 2023.
Will Daniels or others connected to this scheme be charged immediately, according to DA Bragg or others? He wrote.
