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    Character Is Destiny. And Michael Avenatti Is a Bloviator.

    The accusations against him are hardly surprising.
    by Ken White Mar 27, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

    Nobody would ever describe Michael Avenatti as circumspect. But this month the outspoken lawyer, Trump adversary, and media enthusiast achieved historic levels of recklessness, culminating in the FBI arresting him Monday morning in the lavish Manhattan offices of the power firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. In a dramatic reversal of fortune, the man who made the president of the United States and his fixer abandon enforcement of a sordid hush-money agreement found himself charged with serious federal crimes in both New York and Los Angeles. True to form, he talked his way there, and is trying to talk his way out again.

    Avenatti——has only been charged with the accusations are.

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