mr. avenatti allegedly took nearly all that money and used it to pay for his portion of a private jet. a jet, incidentally, that we seized yesterday. reporter: there it is being towed away from a southern california airport. it is lawyer 101. you do not steal your client s money. reporter: one of alleged victims, geoffrey johnson, is a paraplegic. prosecutors say avenatti drained almost all of the $4 million he got in a settlement from l.a. county, giving johnson only money for rent at an assisted living facility. tonight, the man s lawyer saying avenatti s actions have left mr. johnson destitute. avenatti, who is already facing extortion charges in new york, has been characteristically defiant, denying all of the allegations. i will be fully exonerated and justice will be done. thank you. matt gutman with us live tonight outside federal court. and matt, michael avenatti is now facing this second wave of charges tonight. if convicted, what kind of
border patrol, prison guards. the list goes on and on. and now this cnn exclusive. an e-mail written by a high-ranking official at the tsa, raising concerns about airport security being compromised. rene marsh has more. christine and dave, excessive callouts by tsa officers have hurt security operations at a southern california airport. that is the assessment of a high-ranking tsa official. it s all laid out in an internal e-mail dated monday. the tsa official in charge of security operations at palm springs international airport wrote, and i m quoting, due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at this airport, psp, palm springs international, that has adversely impacted security operations. if you have an unscheduled absence, you will not be placed in an intermittent furlough status. plainly speaking, concerns about the number of callouts at the airport have reached the point
operations. that s key. a big deal and a scary us that. this e-mail warns of disciplinary action for employees who are calling out a lot and missing their shirts. rene marsh broke this news. she s live from reagan this morning. this is a big deal coming from someone very high up within tsa. his assessment is that these excessive callouts is impacting the security operations at this southern california airport specifically palm springs international airport this official is in charge of security operations there and things got so bad he sent out this e-mail dated monday and i m quoting from it now, it says, quote, due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at palm springs international, it has adversely
raising new concerns about airport security becoming compromises, rene marsh has the details. christine and dave, excessive callouts by security officers have hurt security operations at a southern california airport. that is the see. of a high-ranking tsa official. it s all laid out in an internal e-mail dated monday. the tsa official in charge of security operations at palm springs national airport wrote, and i m quoting, due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at this airport, psp, palm springs international, that has adversely impacted security operations. if you have an unscheduled absence, will you not be placed in intermittent furlough status. plainly speaking, concerns about the number of callouts at the airport have reached the point that tsa management is now warning in this e-mail that there may be disciplinary action if employees call out. now, the e-mail was directed to all tsa personnel at the
we are boning everything back to the bare necessities to try and make it through. i am a single mom. my son just graduated his first two years of college. he s going back. i m not getting paid. i just bought a house. i m not going to be able to pay my mortgage. you have the stress of i m not getting paid. i m not getting a paycheck. and you have inmates who just want to tease so they can make it a more dangerous place. so, for safety and security, i mean, that puts that at risk. a very good point. and now this cnn exclusive, an e-mail written by a high-ranking official at tsa, raising new concerns about airport security becoming compromised. rene marsh has the details. christine and dave, excessive callouts by security officers have hurt security operations at a southern california airport. that is the assessment of a