By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The youth basketball coach who employed Mic
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The youth basketball coach who
employed Michael Avenatti to signify him in negotiations with
Nike Inc mentioned on the celeb lawyer’s extortion trial
on Thursday he turned “very, very upset” upon studying that
Avenatti deliberate to publicize his corruption accusations towards
the sports activities attire firm.
Testifying for the prosecution in Manhattan federal courtroom,
Gary Franklin additionally mentioned he didn’t notice Avenatti had been
angling to run an inner probe at Nike, in the midst of
representing him. The coach mentioned his hope was Nike itself would
expose its corrupt staff.
Franklin, the coach of California Supreme, which had been in
the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League, mentioned he “by no means needed to
go public or have any press convention in any respect” earlier than studying
that Avenatti had tweeted a plan to take action final March 25, shortly
earlier than Avenatti was arrested.
Federal prosecutors hope to point out jurors that Avenatti was
eager about lining his pockets, whereas wiping away a few of his
money owed, by threatening to show Nike and knock billions of
{dollars} off its market worth.
Prosecutors mentioned Avenatti shook down Nike by demanding it
pay him as much as $25 million for the interior probe plus $1.5
million to Franklin.
Avenatti threatened to…