Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump, is charged with embezzlement for stealing nearly $10 million of settlement money from his clients. He is accused of negotiating and collecting settlements on their behalf, keeping the money for himself and not telling his clients what happened to the money. Avenatti was granted a mistrial on technical grounds that federal prosecutors failed to turn over relevant financial evidence to him. This follows another separate trial in July in which Avenatti was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for a $25 million extortion case in New York.