Wondering how much Barr might have inserted himself into Avenatti's prosecution.

[triron]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/politics/william-barr-roger-stone-prosecutors-outrage/index.html

[Hoyt]

1. I'm OK with Barr, or anyone else, helping convict that grifter.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No. Avenatti has supplied more than enough rope to hang himself

without any interference from anybody. He's also being prosecuted in California where he was indicted by a grand jury on 36 charges of tax dodging, perjury, and theft from clients, and he was arrested in January - during his disbarment hearing before a state court - for violating his bail terms. The guy's a crook.

[The Wizard]

3. Barr has unclean hands

[jimfields33]

6. Probably but avenatti went after Nike.

Barr just say back and watched the drama unfold.

[RockRaven]

4. From the legal analysis of an anti-Trump, anti-Barr pundit whose judgment I've come to trust

over the past few years... I suspect Barr didn't bother interfering because there was nothing to be gained from it and only loss to be had.

A hugely influential global company told the DOJ they were being shaken-down.
The DOJ looked into it.
The facts were damning, and the relevant criminal statute clear.

Barr getting involved could only fuck it up by creating grounds for appeals and whatnot. He could clearly get what he wanted by sitting on his hands and doing nothing.

I guess it depends on how poorly Barr thinks of his line prosecutors and how arrogant he is. While the magnitudes of both are larger than they should be for a US AG, I don't know that they are large enough to predict that he'd completely shoot himself in the foot in this case.

In light of all this Roger Stone and Mike Flynn BS, you can bet that Avenatti will pursue this angle. Whether there is any there there is another question.

[Progressive dog]

5. Avenatti was accused by the company that he tried to extort

The man is a rightfully convicted felon. Another example of what kind of grifter Avenatti is--

Federal prosecutors in New York City say Avenatti used a doctored document to divert about $300,000 that Daniels was supposed to get as an advance from a book deal, then used the money for personal and business expenses. Only half of that money was paid back, prosecutors said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/22/michael-avenatti-charged-stealing-from-stormy-daniels

[Sewa]

7. He placed the case in Geoffrey Berman's Hands

A member of Tump’s transition team. Barr can cross out one name on Trump’s revenge list.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Avenatti is a grifter who's getting what he deserves, regardless of who's the prosecutor.

He's getting it in CA, too. 36 felony counts.

[Sewa]

10. That's a separate issue from Barr's involvements

Some people can’t separate the two issues.

[pnwmom]

9. Did you hear that Berman has just resigned?