Disgraced celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti‘s 14-year criminal sentence for embezzling settlements funds from his clients must be recalculated, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
The Los Angeles trial court that handed down the sentence in 2022 made a number of legal errors in reaching that conclusion, including applying an unwarranted obstruction of justice enhancement, a three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said.
The lower court also failed to account for the value of the legal services and money he did pay his clients when calculating the amount the victims lost, the opinion said. ...
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