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FILE - In this July 23, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti walks from a courthouse in New York, after facing charges. A Los Angeles amateur basketball league's founder told jurors Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, that Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Avenatti seeks to limit questioning in Nike extortion trial

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 23, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti walks from a courthouse in New York, after facing charges. A Los Angeles amateur basketball league's founder told jurors Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, that Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Michael Avenatti considering testifying at extortion trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 12, 2019 photo, marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, white vest, wearing Nike AlphaFly prototype running shoe, and his pacemaking team, wearing pink Nike Vaporfly shoes, run during the INEOS 1:59 Challenge attempt to run a sub two-hour marathon in Vienna, Austria. Nike has a new racing shoe; The Air Zoom Alphafly Next%, which was unveiled at a flashy fashion show in New York on Wednesday night, Feb. 5, 2020. Kipchoge wore a prototype of the shoe when he ran the world's first sub-2-hour marathon in an unofficial race in October. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

A step ahead? Nike’s Vaporfly shoe changing marathon game

By PAT GRAHAM and ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

Amateur basketball league founder says Avenatti betrayed him

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Witness testifies Avenatti had no authority for Nike demands

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

This courtroom sketch shows Scott R. Wilson, former Boies Schiller attorney whose client is Nike, testifying during trial for Michael Avenatti in New York, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2020. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Avenatti trial on slow track as first witness testifies

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at federal court to enter a plea to an indictment charging him with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike, in New York. A lawyer for Nike testified Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, that he felt like a stickup victim when well-known attorney Avenatti demanded up to $25 million to stop him from igniting a media scandal by publicizing claims that Nike employees paid the families of elite high school basketball players. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Nike lawyer: Avenatti threatened Nike with ‘media scandal’

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 29, 2020, file photo shows screens warning about a new coronavirus in a subway train in Seoul, South Korea. The dangerous virus spreading through China threatens a wide range of industries with global ties to the world’s second largest economy. Chinese authorities have cut off access to Wuhan, where the virus originated, and 16 other cities to prevent further spread of the virus, affecting more than 50 million people. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Companies with China ties start to feel virus impact

By DAMIAN J. TROISE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, European Commissioner designate for Europe fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager answers questions during her hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Thursday Jan. 30, 2020, slapped NBCUniversal and other companies owned by parent Comcast Corp. with a 14.3 million euro ($15.8 million) penalty for “anti-competitive licensing and distribution practices” that are illegal under the bloc's rules. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

EU fines NBCUniversal for restricting film merchandise sales

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FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at federal court to enter a plea to an indictment charging him with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike in New York. Avenatti stood to greet 120 prospective jurors who came to a New York courtroom Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 too fill out questionnaires for his trial on charges he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike. As they entered, jurors seemed largely unaware of Avenatti as his lawyers and others stood around him. But U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe told the potential jurors that they were being considered to decide a criminal case involving charges of extortion and honest services wire fraud against Avenatti. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Prosecutor: Michael Avenatti saw dollar signs in Nike fraud

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Miami downs E. Michigan 73-68 behind Coleman-Lands

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Attorney Michael Avenatti leaves Manhattan Federal court, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Federal judge rejects Michael Avenatti’s bid to dismiss criminal charges in Nike case

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sibande’s double-double helps Miami (Ohio) hold off Kent St.

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Judge denies Michael Avenatti’s request to toss out charges

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Illustration on U.S. prosperity by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Democrats peddle doom, but the middle class never had it so good

By Stephen Moore

In this May 28, 2019, file photo, attorney Michael Avenatti leaves a courthouse in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Michael Avenatti was $15M in debt when he tried to extort $25M from Nike, prosecutors say

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this May 28, 2019, file photo, attorney Michael Avenatti leaves a courthouse in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Prosecutors: Deeply-in-debt Michael Avenatti sought payday

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

California attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at federal court to enter a plea to an indictment charging him with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Michael Avenatti sought payday with Nike extortion, prosecutors say

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Nike's "Air Force 1 '07 x Colin Kaepernick" shoes sold out in less than 24 hours after launching on Dec. 23, 2019. (Image: Twitter, Colin Kaepernick, Nike shoe promotional screenshot)

Colin Kaepernick’s ‘True to 7’ Nike shoes sell out in hours: ‘His voice and perspective inspire’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Michael Avenatti: Fellow lawyer at the ‘heart’ of defense

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press