Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Jun. 14, 2022
Avenatti filed own plea change, didn’t tell counsel which counts
“He himself drafted it out at Terminal Island,” said H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, referring to the federal prison in San Pedro. “I pretty much filed it as it came from him. It’s kind of an unusual situation that I’m advisory counsel only. He represents himself.”
Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti drafted his own 64-page filing attempting to get a lighter sentence by pleading guilty to stealing only around $5 million, not $12 million of his clients’ money through wire fraud, his advisory counsel said Monday.
“The filing itself he drafted, and he sent it to me,” H. Dean Steward of Newport Beach, who has advised Avenatti in his self-defense against federal criminal charges, said in a phone interview...
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