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February 15, 2019

Michael Avenatti Gives Up Financial Control of His Law Firm After Being Accused of Hiding Millions of Dollars

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Michael Avenatti agreed Wednesday to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.
The celebrity lawyer and his firm, Eagan Avenatti, consented to the appointment of a receiver to take possession of its bank accounts, case files, computers and other assets.

Avenatti also promised to cooperate with efforts by Jason Frank, a former lawyer at Eagan Avenatti, to collect on his $10-million judgment against the firm...

The agreement came after Frank asked a federal court Tuesday night to appoint a receiver to seize Eagan Avenatti and stop the firm from draining its assets...

Frank's court papers alleged that Avenatti used nefarious bank maneuvers when his firm was under federal bankruptcy protection to hide millions of dollars from its creditors.

"This includes brazen acts of bankruptcy fraud," Frank's lawyer, Scott H. Sims, wrote in the court documents.

Avenatti denied wrongdoing.

And yet, he agreed to turn over financial control of the firm to a receiver.

People tend to have reasons for doing stuff like that.

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