you should expect an appeal. >> reporter: but prosecutors calling avenatti's scheme a, quote, old-fashioned shakedown where he threatened to hurt nike's reputation and stock price unless the company paid him up to $25 million. avenatti told nike he had a client, a coach who had damaging information about alleged nike payments to the families of young athletes. at trial prosecutors playing wiretapped phone calls. after nationalny threatening in one call, i'll take $10 billion off your company's value. i'm not, expletive, around. but nike already went to the fbi and avenatti through it all proclaiming his innocence. >> i will be fully exonerated. and justice will be done. >> reporter: avenatti still facing two trials for allegedly defrauding other clients out of millions of dollars including the one who made him famous, adult film star stormy daniels. avenatti allegedly pocketing $300,000 from her book advance.