Stormy Daniel's currently incarcerated former attorney, Michael Avenatti, has lost his bid to avoid further prison time for attempting to extort the sportswear company Nike.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled to leave Avenatti's extortion and fraud convictions in place. Avenatti was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for the Nike extortion plot.
He apologized at his sentencing, saying he was "deeply humbled."
In 2019 the disgraced lawyer was representing a youth basketball coach in Los Angeles who alleged that Nike made unlawful payments to high school athletes.
During this time, Avenatti was also facing millions of dollars in judgments, and his law firm had been evicted from its office, according to NBC.
Amid talks with Nike lawyers, Avenatti prodded the company not just to pay his client but also to hire him along with another lawyer to carry out an internal company investigation into the matter.
He reportedly threatened to go public with the allegations should they not agree.
A jury found him guilty of all three charges-two extortion-related counts and one charge of fraud under a federal law that targets illegal kickbacks by requiring people to provide "honest services."
This is only the latest of Avenatti's growing legal troubles. He was also sentenced to 14 years in prison for cheating clients out of millions of dollars and to four years in prison for stealing money from Stormy Daniels, whom he represented in order to void a nondisclosure agreement she previously signed over her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump.
Avenatti is currently incarcerated at a federal prison in California.
