Avenatti Found Guilty in Theft of Daniels’s Book Advance (3)

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels in an explosive lawsuit against Donald Trump when he was president, was found guilty of ripping off his former client.

A federal jury in Manhattan on Friday found Avenatti, 50, guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for intercepting about $300,000 in advance payments to Daniels from a publisher as part of a deal for her memoir.

He was ordered to surrender to U.S. Marshals by Monday at 5 p.m. in Los Angeles and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 24. Avenatti faces a maximum prison term ...