Profiles in client defense
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“Don’t worry, Mike, I’m behind you all the way” Scott Srebnick for the defense; sort of. To a degree. Until he says otherwise. Kachoo!
Fraudster Michael Avenatti’s attorney is scared to visit him at the dirty and dangerous Metropolitan Correctional Center — because he fears the lockup could be a coronavirus hotbed.
In a letter, Avenatti lawyer Scott Srebnick asked a Manhattan judge to delay by 30 days a pre-sentencing interview he was scheduled to attend between Avenatti and probation officials at the MCC.
Srebnick highlighted unsanitary conditions at the MCC … as a potential breeding ground for coronavirus.
“Mr. Avenatti’s cell was infested with rats. The jail reeks or urine. As of yesterday, Mr. Avenatti had not shaved in weeks. Meanwhile, across the country, public officials are declaring states of emergency as a result of the spread of the coronavirus,” Srebnick wrote.
“Health officials are uncertain of the actual risks. And, by all accounts, a prison facility poses among the highest risks of spread of infection,” he added.
“Given the uncertainty regarding the coronavirus, the ease with which it spreads, and the documented unsanitary conditions at the MCC-New York, I am requesting that the … background interview be adjourned,” he wrote.
So Attorney Srebnick knows of the intolerable conditions his client is enduring at the MCC but wants to put off a hearing that might shorten his time there because Srebnick might get sick? Avenatti’s not going to be freed for a long time, but the faster he’s out of our government’s torture jail and into a prison the better for him.; hell, Harvey Weinstein’s already up in Fishkill, just a couple of days after his conviction.
You’re gonna need a bigger retainer, Mike, and a bigger lawyer.
