A 36-count indictment against celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti in the Central District of California includes allegations he swiped $2.5 million in settlement money that NBA star Hassan Whiteside paid to ex-girlfriend Alexis Gardner.

Avenatti was entitled to a 33 percent cut of the $3 million settlement he helped negotiate between Gardner and the Miami Heat star. But federal prosecutors claim he secretly took almost all of the initial $2.75 million paid in January 2017, allegedly putting it toward a private jet from Honda Aircraft Co. LLC.