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Prosecutors Urge ‘Very Substantial’ Prison Term for Disgraced Lawyer Michael Avenatti

‘REAL AND SERIOUS PUNISHMENT’

They said his effort “to extort a publicly-traded company out of tens of millions of dollars” deserves “real and serious punishment.”

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