Avenatti Defends Conduct with NIKE: ‘People Make Threats All the Time’

‘People make threats all the time in connection with trying to settle a case’

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REPORTER: “You say you were working on behalf of your client, but you were also telling Nike, according to this complaint, you either hire me or I’m going to say something.”
AVENATTI: “If what they’ve alleged constitutes extortion, you’re going to have to go around the country and arrest tens of thousands of lawyers in this country for extortion.”
REPORTER: “But there are legal experts who say you crossed a line."
AVENATTI: “Well, and there’s legal experts that say that I was well within the line as an aggressive attorney. There’s many that say that. The fact of the matter is this was not extortion. People make threats all the time —“
REPORTER: “ What was it?”
AVENATTI: “People make threats all the time in connection with trying to settle a case.” 

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