Jury Told Avenatti Is 'Brash' But Didn't Extort Nike

By Stewart Bishop (January 29, 2020, 9:59 PM EST) -- An attorney for Michael Avenatti told a New York federal jury Wednesday that while the celebrity attorney is a "brash, aggressive" advocate, he didn't commit extortion by asking Nike for millions of dollars to settle claims stemming from alleged corruption in youth basketball and to pay him to investigate the company....

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