An attorney for Michael Avenatti this week told a Manhattan federal judge that a criminal case accusing the embattled lawyer of stealing $300,000 from his former client, adult film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, belonged in a California federal court, where prosecutors said they were prepared to try the charges as a part of a sprawling wire fraud case.
In a motion filed Thursday and docketed Friday, H. Dean Steward argued that the case against his client was “virtually identical” to a case in the Central District of California, where Avenatti was indicted in April on 36 counts of misappropriating funds from five clients.
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