He is appealing conviction and the two and a half year sentence. As a result, information about their lives is not known. The couple was married for more than a decade as they got married in 1992 and later divorced in 2005. [114], On March 25, 2019, Avenatti was arrested in New York City, and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced that they were charging Avenatti with attempting to extort up to $25 million from U.S. athletic apparel and shoe company Nike by threatening to make damaging charges against the company. According to court records, in 2018 she filed a declaration asking a family court judge to require a nanny to accompany their son on any visits with his father. (Avenatti provided a copy of the termination letter he sent Daniels late that month, citing a lack of communication and a general lack of appreciation for our work.). If he positioned his head just so, he could see New York. But these are the same people that, when he was riding high, they were pulling for him to fall. [38][39][40], Avenatti has also served as lead counsel on a number of historically large cases, including an April 2017 $454 million verdict after a jury trial in Federal Court in Los Angeles in a fraud case against Kimberly-Clark and Halyard Health,[41] later reduced to a $21.7 million verdict upon appeal,[42] an $80.5 million class-action settlement against Service Corporation International,[43] and a $41 million jury verdict against KPMG. [78] Avenatti withdrew the motion, and appeared on MSNBC that same day. But when he told me the story in Venice this fall, it was clear that their relationship did contain an element of chance. Murphy said inmates are held outside general population as necessary for safety reasons. A week after we first spoke in September, Avenatti stood waiting for me outside the second-floor apartment in Venice. Willy Sanjuan / Invision/AP. Early on, he asked if he could get a book. This is not to say that he doesnt admit to mistakes he does. They wanted to cripple me. When Manheimer took him in at the start of the pandemic, Avenatti was only supposed to stay for 90 days. [10] The accuser, Julie Swetnick, later repudiated the declaration in an interview with NBC News, claiming Avenatti had misrepresented her allegations. Avenatti also criticized Kelly's interview with Gayle King in a series of tweets. [17] [18], The second of four federal criminal trials involving Avenatti began on July 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California with Avenatti defending himself. But the crux of the case comes down to the fee agreement Daniels and Avenatti had in place for the publication of her October 2018 memoir, Full Disclosure: Avenatti says he was entitled to a portion of the proceeds because he negotiated the deal. There is a substantial probability that Avenatti's professional misconduct will result in his disbarment. 3. At one point Anderson said, Well, you know, I mean, Michael Avenatti was a real attorney with real cases, right?. My heart stopped, she told me. Ill take my chances. At one point, he brought up Epstein. [136] In December 2018, it was reported that Avenatti had agreed to pay Lisa $1,947,540 in child and spousal support, and to transfer ownership of several assets to her, including five luxury wristwatches, a Frank Gehry sculpture, other artwork, and a leased 2017 Ferrari 488 GT Spider, while his law firm would transfer to Lisa its interest in a 2015 Honda private jet. Michael Avenatti has two daughters he shares with ex-wife Christine Carlin Avenatti. This year, he asked them to watch an HBO documentary on Tiger Woods. 100 Percent Fed Up reports - Democrats made it one of their top legislative priorities to expand the legislation to include sexual orientation and NEW YORK (AP) A tearful, repentant Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity. [6], After law school, Avenatti worked at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, California, alongside Daniel M. Petrocelli, who previously represented the Ron Goldman family in its case against O. J. [64], Through his research, Avenatti discovered that the Pepsi Stuff commercial aired in Canada also displaying a supposedly redeemable Harrier jump jet included a disclaimer stating that the offer was in jest. Lisa Storie-Avenatti filed for divorce in December 2017. It propelled Avenatti, and it can be argued it also undid him. [19] On June 2, 2022, he was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Daniels. The guards gave him The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump. I really wish I had been a better father, he says. Avenatti participated in races in the United States and . There were only a few times in 10 South that Avenatti was able to use the units single rec room: Its a big, cold room, with a stationary bike, a caged TV, a remote, a lawn chair, a large green parka, and a slatted window where winter air pours through. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL AVENATTI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman to 48 months in prison for fraud and aggravated identity theft. Avenatti denies the charges. 11/10/2018 05:23 PM EST. So I sat there on Valentines Day, as a convicted felon in 10 South, watching AC360 with Jeffrey Toobin, who was relishing the fact that I had just been convicted on multiple felony counts, as I ate my meal out of my plastic tray.. He started arguments on Twitter with random users, with reporters, with other Democratic operatives. Michael has ALWAYS been a kind loving father to our two daughters and husband to me. Obama was gone. The fact that my life has been destroyed as a result of the Nike conviction and the government has given Geragos a complete pass while he continues to travel around the country on his private jet like a big shot, Avenatti says, is a travesty. Geragos declined to comment, citing his past representation of Avenatti in connection with his domestic violence arrest.). In that moment, I had to grow up really fast., Back in New York, Avenatti turned on CNN. Marshals by February 7. Back then, for a while at least, who didnt? [82] On September 25, the woman was publicly identified by Avenatti as Julie Swetnick, a resident of Washington, D.C. and a 1980 graduate of Gaithersburg High School in Maryland. But he had never heard about 10 South, the highest security block in the jail. In an August appearance on ABC News, he promised to release his tax returns. And when he rose again, all of a sudden he is a virtuous man now, which to me is bullshit.. Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 17, 2018 Avenatti acknowledged that his high-profile work for Daniels may have contributed to the demand for his services, which he said he is . I noticed earlier tonight, in fact, Don Jr. got in the mix by calling me a porn star lawyer. Evidently he forgot that his father was the one that had unprotected sex with my quote porn-star close-quote client while his stepbrother was four months old at home with his stepmom., Avenatti arrives at federal court in Santa Ana, Calif. on April 1, 2019. The 10 South block was known to get particularly cold. Avenatti, best known as porn star Stormy Daniels former attorney, has been locked up since mid-January for attempting to extort Nike Avenatti, 49, and Storie, 51, were married for seven years. No one wanted to hear from Hillary. The now-twice-convicted felon and one-ti As a result, Avenatti's firm was abruptly forced into bankruptcy. Avenatti was told he couldnt cover himself, even to use the bathroom, or hed be punished. [38] He appeared on 60 Minutes three times in connection with cases he has handled. When I shared the details of Avenattis case with Maureen Baird, a federal prison consultant and a senior executive warden at MCC from 2014 to 2016, she said shed never heard of a white-collar case in 10 South. Of course, Im nervous, he told one network. I dont think it would be smart. And when he failed, they jumped on him with both feet. | John Minchillo/AP Photo. (In a written response to questions, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons, Donald Murphy, said the department does not comment on anecdotal allegations or provide information about individual inmates. One day in February, he was on his way back to MCC from court, accompanied by three guards, when a senior correctional officer intervened, he says. Dec 5, 2022. 66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari 458 Italia. [57] The primary basis for the action was Avenatti's alleged embezzlement of $1,600,000 in funds from client Greg Barela. Avenatti's trial on the California charges was scheduled for the following May. Anderson Cooper and Jeffrey Toobin were discussing his conviction. Federal agents subsequently seized a Honda HA-420 twin-engine jet from Santa Barbara Airport co-owned by Avenatti and former client, Indigo Systems co-founder William J. Parrish, as the latter was about to embark on a flight. [105] The county district attorney declined to press charges, and referred the case to the city attorney for possible misdemeanor charges. But there is a more ineffable struggle going on inside the Venice apartment one to preserve a sense that he mattered, not as a cartoonish figure in our political circus, but as a player of substance who cannot be dismissed. "I started crying with joy, and he kept telling me not to cry because if there is one thing he . Avenatti takes to the camera, he says, like a duck to water. | Getty Images. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican swing vote, called the Swetnick allegation "outlandish[without] any credible supporting evidence", and ended up supporting Kavanaugh's nomination. Ive spent a lot of sleepless nights thinking about this, and there are only three., The first two are escape or suicide, neither of which he says hes considered. Normally, according to Baird, high-profile detainees are housed in the jails regular special housing unit, 9 South, while the warden reviews him for general population. Besides, Michael has two daughters from his previous relationship. [77] Avenatti had also filed a motion to join the federal investigation of Michael Cohen. by Joe Concha and Tal Axelrod - 11/10/18 4:06 PM ET. [116] Avenatti was released on a $300,000 bond that evening. These races have included the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, 2012 Petit Le Mans, and the Long Beach Grand Prix. [18], Also, on March 25, 2019, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Nicola T. Hanna, announced in Los Angeles the filing of a 197-page complaint accusing Avenatti of wire fraud and bank fraud. Simpson. Youre going to be our savior, he remembers Stewart saying. Perhaps you asked him for a selfie, or admired the skill with which he handled himself on television. [135][105], He married Lisa Storie in 2011. Such a fine guy. [73][8] He also gained a large following on Twitter; he ended his tweets about the case and other Trump-related matters with the Twitter hashtag "#basta" the Italian word for "enough. [84] In an NBC interview, Swetnick provided the names of four people she alleged were friends who had gone to the parties with her however, one is deceased and another claimed not to know her. This was the favorite detail of the writers who profiled him in 2018 a suggestion of the cage fight he promised against Donald Trump. [57] The State Bar Court is the court that decides whether a California attorney committed professional misconduct worthy of discipline, up to and including disbarment. He says he pleaded with her not to be placed in solitary confinement. I said, OK, then you tell me who you think is going to beat this guy, and if you can make a case for them, then I agree with you, Im not going to run. Later that summer, Avenatti appeared as the headliner at his first major Democratic Party event, the Wing Ding dinner, held every presidential season in an Iowa town called Clear Lake. He had multiple race cars, a private jet, an expensive divorce from his second wife, a $13.5 million house on the water in Newport Beach, an apartment in Ten Thousand, the West Hollywood apartment complex popular with celebrities. Isnt this a publicity stunt? That night on stage, he told Democrats they needed to fight fire with fire, playing off Michelle Obamas line at the Democratic convention two years earlier: When they go low, I say, we hit harder, Avenatti said. [128] In May 2022, Avenatti's attorneys submitted a letter of apology to Daniels saying he was "truly sorry", and that he failed her in many respects. At the time, federal prosecutors in California were already investigating allegations that Avenatti had stolen from clients. This was a joke, and not exactly true: The last time wed spoken was in the fall of 2018, when things were starting to go bad. NEW YORK A tearful, repentant Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyer who once represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in. (Geragos was never charged. That much is evident when you sit across from him in this small backyard, miles from the nearest green room. [137] The jet was later confiscated by federal agents at Santa Barbara Airport on April 10, 2019, during an asset seizure based on the tax, wire, and bankruptcy fraud indictment filed in the U.S. Central District Court of California.[138]. On March 6, he filed the first lawsuit on behalf of Daniels, alleging the hush-money payment constituted a campaign violation. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images and Andrew Harnik/AP Photo. [96] In September 2018, Avenatti said he would run in 2020 only against Trump or Pence. In the beginning, at least, when he agreed to represent Stormy Daniels, it went well. The last time a reporter asked him about running for president was March 24, 2019, the Sunday before his arrest. Daniels is seeking to invalidate the nondisclosure agreement. Before attending night classes at George Washington University Law School, Avenatti had spent six years working on Democratic campaigns in opposition research, and he now had an audience for his commentary on the partys failings. He has two extremely different personalities, she told the magazine. Lauren was in class before lunch when a friend texted her, Hey, Im sorry. She didnt know what he was talking about. "Michael has ALWAYS been a kind loving. Avenatti is a "loyal, loving, supportive and fun father" of his two teenage daughters and 8-year-old son, Steward wrote. Epstein had been held in 9 South, one floor below, a special housing unit for alleged criminals who could be targets in general population. [68], In March 2018, Avenatti filed a lawsuit on behalf of adult film actress Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 non-disclosure agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006, claiming that Daniels had been paid off by Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen not to disclose information covered by the NDA. Michael Avenatti 10 Fast Facts, Biography, Wiki. "[108], Later in November, actress Mareli Miniutti's name was released as the woman alleging domestic violence. for investigation", "Grassley refers Avenatti and Swetnick to Justice for a criminal probe", "CNN has seen tape Avenatti says shows R. Kelly having sex with underage girl", "Why Is Michael Avenatti Involved in the R. Kelly Case? The saddest part, whatever you think of him, whatever he thinks, is that Michael Avenatti did this to himself, though he wouldnt put it that way. Tobin's claim forced Avenatti to cancel a deposition in an unrelated lawsuit days later, raising the question of collusion between Avenatti and Tobin. Journalists wrote about his failed venture as the owner of Tullys Coffee, the Seattle-based company he purchased in 2013, working alongside the actor Patrick Dempsey. Avenatti is convinced there is a more nefarious explanation. I just couldnt even wrap my head around the fact that my dad was going to prison, she said. Yes, people were sending her messages about all the attention he was getting they think that Michael has abandoned me, or Im not important to him anymore, she told Lemon but they still spoke every day, she said. The first time he went there was Valentines Day 2020. He was convicted of cheating her out of proceeds from her book. The last time he had a Grey Goose martini (up, two olives) and a New York strip at Craigs, his preferred hangout in West Hollywood, was 709 days ago. Attorney Michael Avenatti is flanked by Jerhonda Pace and Angelo Clary after R&B superstar R. Kelly pleaded not guilty at Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Feb. 25, 2019. Michael Avenatti arrives to Federal court in Manhattan, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. The former attorney has however kept details about his daughter private, hence, information about their lives is not known. Avenatti also has two teenage daughters from a previous marriage. Of course I made mistakes you dont end up in this situation without making mistakes. Marshals were prepared to take Avenatti to Manhattan as early as January 17, 2020, for his trial on the New York charges. [60] At the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, Avenatti teamed up with Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Saud and Polish driver Jakub "Kuba" Giermaziak in the No. In addition, he is also a professional car race driver. At the top 100 media event that spring, he remembers standing at the bar with MSNBC host Ari Melber, another new friend. The video was leaked by a former employee whom Avenatti represented. In the spring of 2019, he hastily took on the case of Gary Franklin, a coach who alleged he had evidence of a big problem at Nike: the company, in partnership with Franklin, was paying parents of recruits. [27], In college and later in law school, Avenatti worked at The Research Group, a political opposition research and media firm run by Rahm Emanuel (later White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, and Mayor of Chicago). One of Woodss old friends is talking: A lot of people would spin it like he was a different man now hes the conquering hero. Furthermore, Michael was born in Sacramento, California, and moved with his family to Chesterfield, Missouri, in 1982. [14][15] He has been ineligible to practice law in California since May 4, 2020. But the reckoning for Avenatti, as with so much from Trumps four years in office, is not finished. [49][50], In 2017, Gerald Tobin alleged Avenatti failed to pay him $28,700 for private investigatory work. [102][103] An LAPD spokesperson said that the unidentified victim, at the time, later described as his girlfriend,[104] had "visible injuries" and that the case would be referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney for prosecution. Michael Avenatti's two ex-wives have publicly defended him following the Los Angeles lawyer's arrest Wednesday afternoon for alleged domestic violence. As he headlined political events in the summer of 2018 he talked to at least one friend, that person told me, about how he needed money. (Avenatti says he doesnt remember the incident, because it never happened.), Christine Carlin, Avenattis first wife and the mother of his two daughters, said her ex-husband could be loose with particulars. [109] The filing stated that Miniutti and Avenatti had been residing together, and alleged that they had gotten into an argument over money before Avenatti hit her in the face with pillows and dragged her across their apartment floor. Whats next? The request was initially denied. As soon as we sit down, he shifts easily back into the mode of a trial attorney, every audience a jury with a checkbook. Avenatti was accused of withholding client funds and applying most of the settlement money of $1.75 million, along with his included $1 million fees, to invest $2.5 million in a share of a private jet. [132], On June 5, 2019, the State Bar of California filed with the California State Bar Court a 573-page application under the California Business and Professions Code section 6007(c)(2), to involuntarily enroll Avenatti as an inactive member of the bar. On at least two separate occasions, they recalled, he promised them he had nothing to hide. Trump.Avenatti represents Stormy . All right? Just before the 2016 presidential election, Daniels had taken a $130,000 payment from Michael Cohen, Trumps lawyer, to stay quiet about sleeping with Trump in 2006. In September 2018, as the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was being evaluated in the Senate, two women accused him of inappropriate sexual conduct while in high school or college. She also expressed that she had only given her sworn declaration a cursory look. One guard eventually brought him a set of used long johns. Anderson actually pushed back at one point. Cooper, the 60 Minutes host, had interviewed Avenatti all three times he appeared on the program. Period, Avenatti says now.). [30] He assisted Petrocelli on multiple legal matters, including the representation of singer Christina Aguilera[31] and litigation surrounding the movie K-19: The Widowmaker,[32][33] and worked extensively for Don Henley and Glenn Frey of the musical group the Eagles, including in a suit brought by former bandmate Don Felder against the group and Irving Azoff. Avenatti arrives for his scheduled sentencing in the Nike extortion case at Manhattan federal court on July 8, 2021. Not a goddamn thing, two people remember him saying at dinner in 2018, though he disputes any suggestion that I led anyone to believe that I led a pristine life., Avenatti arrives for his scheduled sentencing in the Nike extortion case at Manhattan federal court on July 8, 2021. That's genuinely too bad. In a cocoon almost, he says, like a self-created protective cocoon.. Now, it may be the one thing he cant do. [133], Avenatti has been on "Interim suspension after conviction 20-C-30155" since May 4, 2020. A 79-year-old retired physicist with long blond hair, she wore a blue T-shirt that said AVENATTI IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL. Im not. Subsequently, NBC News reported that the unnamed declarant told them on September 30 (before Michael Avenatti released her sworn statement on October 3 with her name redacted) that she never thought it was Kavanaugh spiking the punch and that she never witnessed him act inappropriately towards girls. In a text to NBC News on October 4, the unnamed accuser reiterated, "It is incorrect that I saw Brett spike the punch. Avenattis lawyers dont believe the Federal Bureau of Prisons ever placed Avenatti on special administrative measures, making his placement in 10 South highly unusual. [130][131] Avenatti, registration number 86743-054, is currently incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, where he was scheduled for release in 2026. He is appealing conviction and the two and a half year sentence. Off topic, he wrote on Twitter that June, the candidate in 2020 better be a take no prisoners street fighter who is prepared to go 15 rounds in a VERY brutal campaign. The tweet spun into stories about Avenatti 2020. If reporters believed they were in on the joke, Avenatti wasnt. The team placed seventh in its class. Furthermore, the ex-couple has two daughters, but all we know for the time being is that they are both teenagers. His Twitter account, where he once held the attention of nearly 900,000 followers (now 680,000), sits frozen in September 2018: In the video that plays on loop in his last pinned tweet, he is on MSNBC, attacking the president and his party: They want to make me the issue. Hes staring into the camera, eyes level, talking fast. [81] The leaked video was part of the response to the Trump administration family separation policy. At this point, Avenatti says, the only question is: Have I hit bottom?, Avenatti doesn't leave his home except for court appearances, meetings with his lawyers, or medical appointments. It was so f---ing great seeing the look on all of these reporters faces. Afterward, Avenatti says he finished off a bottle of Fireball with Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman, at a house party in Clear Lake. [48] He later pursued a class-action suit on behalf of fans who showed up for Super Bowl XLV with tickets that didn't correspond to actual seats, but the courts in Texas declined to certify the class. He was combative in public, and people liked that. But it was enough to revoke Avenattis bail hours before he was set to fly to New York, preparing to meet with his lawyers seven days before the Nike trial. T he woman approached Michael Avenatti with obvious purpose. Avenatti, the once high-profile California attorney who regularly taunted then-President Donald Trump . Next month in New York, he is set to begin trial in the final case to go to court, where federal prosecutors will argue that Avenatti stole $149,000 from Danielss $800,000 book deal, which Avenatti helped negotiate. Avenatti called the referral "completely baseless. [21], On May 22, 2019, Avenatti was charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as a result of allegations that he stole money from former client Stormy Daniels while helping negotiate her 2018 book deal. He wants to manage the story. Later, in a Vanity Fair piece in May 2019, cable news bookers would complain he was aggressive and rude. He was the kind of subject who can be extremely aggressive in pushing back, Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Finnegan said on a podcast after Avenattis arrest. He still talks close to your face. If the State Bar Court finds sufficient evidence to place Avenatti on involuntary inactive enrollment, the State Bar must initiate disciplinary proceedings within 45 days of the effective date of the order. [123][124] Avenatti is accused of stealing money from clients to purchase a $5 million private jet he co-owned, as well as fraud related to tax documents and banking information. I havent been nave in a long, long time, but I was nave about this., With the spotlights on him, Avenatti exits a New York court after being arrested for allegedly trying to extort Nike in New York City on March 25, 2019. He was charged with fraudulently obtaining $4 million in bank loans and pocketing $1.6 million that belonged to a client. Even in the beginning, when he was a little-known plaintiffs attorney in California, before his license was suspended, he had cases appear on 60 Minutes three times in five years. Prosecutors also alleged that Avenatti had not filed personal tax returns for the years in question. He was an unlikely resistance hero, maybe the first. It was all downhill from here.. A friend reached out to another friend, and within minutes, he called me from his Jitterbug. In November, his relationship with Stormy Daniels was starting to unravel in public view: She claimed that the defamation case Avenatti had filed that summer against Donald Trump had been brought without her approval. Allowing my kids to be exposed to what theyve been exposed to as a result of the failings of their father no child should have to go through what my kids have had to go through because of me. At his sentencing hearing in the Nike case, his daughters wrote a letter to the judge pleading for leniency. While in college, he worked as an opposition researcher for Rahm Emanuel's political consulting firm. When I suggest to Avenatti that he could do his own live hits, launch his own podcast, reconnect with his friends at MSNBC and CNN his old dinner partners in New York he stops me. That was really when I thought to myself, Im pretty decent at this. As of March 2023, Michael Avenatti has an estimated net worth of more than $80 million. On Wednesday afternoon, Senate Democrats took up legislation to 'expand' the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act in Michigan. Now she wanted out of the NDA, upset that Cohen was talking about the agreement in an effort to deny the affair. He didnt have six months, as it turned out. Federal agents took him to the jail in Santa Ana, Calif., and placed him in solitary confinement, according to Avenatti and his lawyers. Suburban housewives in middle America arent going to identify with the Make America Horny Again girl., Ideally, you need to go on 60 Minutes., Stormy Daniels and Avenatti speak to the media as they exit the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York after a hearing related to Michael Cohen on April 16, 2018 in New York City. The last time he saw his parents was Thanksgiving 2019. From March to December 2018, Michael Avenatti was a central figure in the most important political story in America: the fate of Donald Trumps presidency. For 13 years, Michael Avenatti was married to his ex-wife Christine Avenatti Carlin. | Elizabeth Williams via AP. Have you not read the news? he wrote. His credentials were pure hot celebrity and a willingness to get in the mud and fight, filling a vacuum in the Democratic Party at a time when people were still afraid to use the words liar and lies. He was, by some unspoken consensus, serious enough to merit the platform. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced celebrity lawyer turned criminal defendant Michael Avenatti to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike. [72], Avenatti was a frequent guest on talk shows and cable news programs to discuss the cases, logging 108 CNN and MSNBC appearances between March 7 and May 10, 2018. The second-floor apartment is filled with boxes of files labeled things like CONTEMPT MOTION, though they could very well say BULLSHIT boxes and boxes of Its Bullshit and I Dont Traffic In Bullshit and The Whole Premise Is Complete Bullshit which is generally where he lands on the case against him, both legally and in the public eye.