Posted on 10/21/2018 7:27:17 PM PDT by george76
As Michael Avenatti floats a 2020 presidential run, court records reveal the lawyer and his companies owed millions in unpaid taxes and judgments.
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questions over his finances remain—and could become a sore spot on the campaign trail, as creditors pursue him and his former companies. Both the Eagan Avenatti law firm and a shuttered Seattle coffee chain, which Avenatti says he no longer owns, owe millions in unpaid taxes and judgments..
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Tax liens filed in Orange County also show that Avenatti has personally owed at least $1.2 million in federal taxes on top of the corporate debts.
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Civil court filings paint a picture of Avenatti as a hard-charging attorney who enjoyed the luxe life—jetting around the world to race cars with a Saudi prince and treating his wife and their friends to luxury villas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Yet he and his companies owed hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes and in compensation to one former colleague, who claims Avenatti stiffed him out of millions in law-firm profits.
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A Newport Beach landlord began eviction proceedings last month against Eagan Avenatti in Orange County Superior Court. The real-estate entity claims Eagan Avenatti failed to make rent for three storage spaces and a 8,371-square-foot suite, totaling more than $107,415 for the months of July and August.
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On Oct. 18, the landlord filed court papers indicating Eagan Avenatti owes $213,253 in rent as of this month.
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a U.S. bankruptcy court judge entered a $10-million judgment against Eagan Avenatti.
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Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, said Global Baristas owes judgments and penalties and interest totaling $470,259 covering a period from April 2015 to June 2018.
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I got a bill from the IRS telling me I owed one cent. It was on two pieces of paper inside an envelope. So the government spent around a buck to let me know I owed them a penny. I would have blown it off except for the wife applying for citizenship. You can’t owe any back taxes. So I pay it online. I think it’s $3 to use anyones online payment services? So between us we spend four bucks because I miscalculated a penny.
The ‘Rats are eating their own
Creepy Porn Lawyer really screwed up haha
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