Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 17, 2021
Federal prosecutors accuse Michael Avenatti’s lawyer of plagiarism
Avenatti’s lawyer was accused of ripping off Michael Flynn’s defense motion filed in 2019 but attorney H. Dean Steward called the government’s plagiarism claims “ridiculous and petty.”
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles accused Michael J. Avenatti's lawyer of lifting word for word from a government misconduct motion filed in the District of Columbia in 2019 by a lawyer for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Sagel, who is prosecuting Avenatti, said the defense motion accusing the government of withholding evidence "is particularly representative of defendant's bad faith....
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