Michael Avenatti Calls On the Media to Investigate Rudy Giuliani’s Finances

The great feud-within-a-feud between Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti and President Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani continued Saturday when Avenatti asked the media to investigate Giuliani’s personal and business finances.

On Monday, Avenatti shot back at those who were digging into his own finances, saying that his “personal life, businesses, past clients, etc. have nothing to do with the current cases and the facts of those cases:”

Never before has an ATTY in a lawsuit been personally attacked to this degree on issues that have nothing to do with the lawsuit or who he reps. My personal life, businesses, past clients, etc. have nothing to do with the current cases and the facts of those cases. #Desperate

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 21, 2018

Seemingly as a follow-up, Avenatti posted a poll on Twitter Thursday asking whether all the lawyers involved in the cases involving Daniels, Trump, and Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen ought to be investigated themselves:

Please vote below as to whether the personal financial, business and family details of the various ATTORNEYS who are representing parties in the three cases (as opposed to Mr. Cohen, who is a party) should be fully investigated and disclosed to the public.

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 25, 2018

In response to the poll, someone asked specifically about Giuliani, which Avenatti called “an excellent question” Saturday morning:

Now this is an excellent question. Hopefully some members of the media will chime in this weekend and tell us what current steps are being taken to investigate and publish on the other 13+ lawyers in the cases – Giuliani, Ryan, Harder, Blakely, etc. Why just me? #Waiting. https://t.co/tUMRnd4kZ6

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 26, 2018

“Hopefully some members of the media will chime in this weekend and tell us what current steps are being taken to investigate and publish on the other 13+ lawyers in the cases,” he added.

Avenatti also commented Saturday on what he saw as “covering-up” by Columbus Nova, a company with known ties to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselburg and which is confirmed as one of the companies to have paid Cohen for access to the Trump administration:

There’s a reason why Columbus Nova’s story keeps changing by the day and there’s a reason why they are covering-up. The truth is not pretty…but it is necessary. Mr. Trump will not serve out his term. #Basta

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 26, 2018

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