him in prison for dozens and dozens of years. shimon prokupecz thank you very much, joining us to talk about this, jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor and now a lecturer at columbia university law school. he s facing real jail time here? he is, he is, the two cases in new york, also a third case in los angeles. if you look at the statutory maximums, you re talking 30, 40 years, but i think realistically, he may face about ten years here in prison. so i think, you know, everyone is going to pay attention to the new york cases, the stormy daniels one, et cetera, but on the bank fraud charges in california, one example, he won a $4 million settlement for a paraplegic man, and according to the u.s. attorney there, here s what he did with the money. again, from a paraplegic man, quote, within months of receiving the settlement in 2015, mr. avenatti drained the entire $4 million payment from his trust account using significant portions of those funds to finance his coffee busi
playmate said they made reference to his wife in passing, yeah, yeah, don t worry about that. we have separate rooms is how he he depicted his marriage. but what i want to ask you about, all of this stuff politically speak, in terms of the damage, this isn t as bad as the access hollywood tape. these are consensual affairs. so politically speaking, what s the fallout? it depends. so the access hollywood tape shocked people before the election. it didn t cost him the presidency. these stories are kind of hanging on for much longer. there are questions about whether there are violations regarding the stormy daniels one. the more these stories hang around, the more they are kind of pittsburghed apart. the details seem to be coming out, drip, drip, drip. the more they stay on the headlines and on the front of
to talk about what s going on. she s suing him for the comments he made, accusing her basically of being a liar. yeah, so the genie is a bit out of the bottle when it comes to these various ndas. the president as a private citizen entered into them. the stormy daniels one is probably enforceable with some limitations, like i mentioned. but it looks like, you know, this stuff is coming out because he s president and it should come out because he s president. we re just going to see this more and more. you know, the president sued buzzfeed for libel. there could be access to this information in other ways, by serving a subpoena for these kinds of documents or deposition, or it could be gotten through friends of these women who contemporaneously heard about this information. at the end of the day, if there s no damages to the president s reputation, these women are probably legally going to be allowed to speak freely without a whole lot of problem. stormy daniels received $130,000 in