Michael Avenatti re-sentenced in OC to slightly shorter stint in federal prison

Michael Avenatti, the convicted former high-profile civil attorney who gained fame for his fiery cable-news denunciations of President Donald Trump, was re-sentenced on Thursday, June 12, to 11 years and three months in prison — a slightly shorter sentenced than the 14 years he was previously ordered to spend behind bars for stealing millions from his former clients.

Avenatti, during a hearing at the federal courthouse in downtown Santa Ana, was given credit for the approximately three years, four months he has already served in prison, and will now have to serve just under eight more years in federal lockup.

U.S. District Judge James V. Selna, in late 2022, sentenced Avenatti to the 14 years in prison for his Orange County case, which came on top of a combined five-year sentence Avenatti received in New York for attempting to extort about $25 million from Nike and stealing nearly $300,000 from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who he had represented in a legal dispute with President Trump.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year overturned the 14-year sentence, finding that Judge Selna had erred by not taking several sentencing factors into account.

The appellate judge sent it back to Judge Selna, setting up Thursday’s re-sentencing.

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