Criminal
Jul. 27, 2022
Avenatti owes former co-counsel $21.4M for not paying $5.3M
About the possibility of actually collecting the amount, “I don’t think so,” said Robert J. Stoll of Stoll Nussbaum & Polakov. “It is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. We are told he has money offshore, or stashed away, but there’s no evidence or proof of it.”
Suspended attorney Michael J. Avenatti owes his former co-counsel Robert J. Stoll $21.4 million in interest and punitive damages for not paying him his $5.3 million after an 11-year litigation, Orange County judge decided Tuesday.
About the possibility of actually collecting the amount granted by Superior Court Judge Walter P. Schwarrm, “I don’t think so,” Stoll said in a phone call Tuesday.
“It is not dischargea...
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