Posted on 10/26/2018 7:17:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced Friday that he is issuing a second criminal referral regarding lawyer Michael Avenatti.
Grassley announced the move a day after referring Avenatti and his client, Julie Swetnick, to the Justice Department for a potential criminal investigation into whether they made false statements to Congress about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The GOP chairman indicated that the second referral was precipitated by an NBC News report on Thursday, which contended that Swetnick denied making key allegations, saying that Avenatti “twisted [her] words.”
Avenatti responded in a statement to The Hill, calling Grassley's referral "complete garbage."
"We want the investigation started this weekend so we can show how full of crap Grassley is ASAP. He knows nothing about the law, which is not surprising seeing as he never attended law school," he added.
Avenatti also tweeted about Grassley's move Friday night, asserting that "he has placed Kavanaugh at risk of being removed from the SCOTUS."
Grassley's original referral questioned whether Swetnick and Avenatti made false statements to Congress about Kavanaugh during his confirmation process.
"The law prohibits such false statements to Congress and obstruction of congressional committee investigations," Grassley said in a statement on Thursday.
"For the law to work, we can’t just brush aside potential violations. I don’t take lightly making a referral of this nature, but ignoring this behavior will just invite more of it in the future."
Swetnick alleged in a sworn declaration released by Avenatti during Kavanaugh's confirmation process last month that Kavanaugh was at a party where she was gang raped in the 1980s.
Kavanaugh vehemently denied the claim, along with allegations of sexual misconduct from two other women stemming from his days in high school and college.
He was confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 6.
On Grassley: Never attended law school and thus “full of crap.”
This Avenatti is so above it all except that he is a vulgar porn lawyer with his eye on money wherever he can grab it. If that is what law school gets us, close them down.
Might lose some advertising money on local TV (”Have you been injured? We’ll sue for more money than any other law firm. Call us right now!” Otherwise not much loss.
We’ll save money on products as companies no longer have to pay off $275 million for someone who claims they can never work again due to PTSD from thinking about a rash they got from suntan lotion for twelve hours once before it went away except for the scars on their memories.
CPL!CPL!CPL!
Go Grassley...
This CPL has got himself into a position where almost nobody wants anything to do with him.
What a fall...but it’s one he chose..from the heights of the prestigeous O’Melveny and Meier etc. (http://avenatti.com/bio/) to having a 5 mil judgement from a former partner, being kicked out of your office by your landlord, and now part of a criminal investigation.
He didn’t have to be in this position and yet here he is.
And it’s Trump’s fault. /s
speaking of CPL, has he or his stripper clients ever met the StripperBomber?
In Jesus’s day the Lawyers & hypocritical Religious leaders were at the top of the list that got the sharp end of Jesus’s wrath. This CPL fits the bill for that description as well.
“In Jesus’s day the Lawyers & hypocritical Religious leaders were at the top of the list that got the sharp end of Jesus’s wrath. This CPL fits the bill for that description as well.”
They were one and the same.
Avenatti is still on tv day and night. They still love him.
The female in question needs to say she never saw Kavanaugh at any party, so it would be impossible seeing him do anything. She also kept calling him Brett. Is she a friend of his. He denies he was ever at a party like the one CPL alleges.
AG Sessions will jump right on this /S
Yep, Grassley can refer until the cows come home and the DOJ will do nothing.
If only Avenatti had smoked a joint, then Jeff would have jumped on it.
Good I want anyone who tries the next slimy trick to discredit a Trump nomination appointment to know there are consequences for both witness and handler.
“Good I want anyone who tries the next slimy trick to discredit a Trump nomination appointment to know there are consequences for both witness and handler.”
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