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Prosecutor: Michael Avenatti saw dollar signs in Nike fraud

By LARRY NEUMEISTER | January 29, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — A deep-in-debt Michael Avenatti threatened to deploy his big social media and television presence like a “modern weapon” to try to extort up to $25 million from Nike, a prosecutor claimed Wednesday while a lawyer for the California...