...But a New York jury found Avenatti, 48, guilty Friday of extortion, wire fraud and transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort up to $25 million from Nike.
..."His crookedness aside, it would have been weird at that time, sort of during the Michael Avenatti boomlet, not to take him seriously at least in the form of someone who was getting in the president's head," Suebsaeng said.
...Avenatti became a hero of the media elite and even spent his time away from cable news greenrooms partying with CNN hosts.
...CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter published a piece in The Bulwark headlined, "Trump is why you got Michael Avenatti," which declared the Avenatti story isn't about media malfeasance.
..."There are plenty of problems with The Media - for instance, the gifting of $2 billion worth of free air time to Donald Trump in 2016 because it was good for ratings. But the rise and fall of Michael Avenatti wasn't The Media's fault. They didn't make him," Carpenter wrote.
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