side, michael avenatti is now trying the age-old tactic of trying to discredit the key witness. stormy daniels. you can see the sketch of her on the stand. essentially getting her to admit to the jury she believes in, quote, paranormal activity, she has been talking to a haunted doll named susan. all things she admits. but doing that because the facts are so damning. basically, they say he forged her signature on a letter to her literary agent to make it seemed she had signed over rights to her book advance to a personal account. a series of text messages she is saying, hey, what happened to my money? where is it? he said, yeah, i ll get on it. he had it in his own bank account and had spent it on a ferrari. he is defending himself at trial, which is always risky.
10:00 a.m. saying that one juror had refused to deliberate and acting on a motion. avenatti moved for a mistrial. the judge denied it. he asked the judge to go back and continue deliberations and came back with this verdict just before 3:00 p.m. we re waiting to see he s expected to be leaving the courthouse soon for any comments that he ll make. he was charged and now convicted of stealing nearly $300,000 from stormy daniels as part of her book advance. he told the jury he had good faith reason to think he was entitled to money. he didn t put on a case. he represented himself. the jury had been deliberating for quite some time. they asked for instruction from the judge on what good faith meant. they came back with this verdict of guilty. he was previously found guilty of attempting to extort more than $20 million from nike. in that case he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. he s facing additional fraud
u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy, a pleasure to speak to you, thank you. good to see you, john, as always. take care. minutes from now, a jury is set to resume deliberations in the trial of michael avenatti. prosecutors allege that avenatti, who helped negotiate an $800,000 book advance for former client stormy daniels defrauded her by telling her lit airy agent to send nearly $300,000 of that advance to an account he controlled and then he used it to buy things for himself. that book was full disclosure, a 2018 tell all that discusses in part daniels account of an affair with former president donald trump. now, yesterday after about four hours of deliberation, the jury said they were unable to come to an agreement on a wire fraud charge. the judge sent the jury back to try again. joining us now is stormy daniels. i want to thank you so much for being with us this morning, and i know you are anxiously awaiting the outcome here. i wonder if you have any idea why you think the ju
it s an entire trading experience. that pushes you to be even better. and just might change how you trade forever. because once you experience thinkorswim® by td ameritrade there s no going back. breaking news. a jury finds michael avamoty guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft against his former client, stormy daniels. kara scannell joining us from new york with details. what is avenatti now facing? that s right. it was just 16 hours of deliberation before the jury returned that verdict. and he faces a maximum of 22 years in prison. now, that aggravated identity theft charge comes with a mandatory minimum of two year sentence so he s definitely looking at jail time here. he was convicted of stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client, stormy daniels. that was part of a book advance. prosecutors shows the jury