Making Sense of the Michael Avenatti Sentencing

You can't really, but here's my best effort.

Michael Avenatti was sentenced last week in connection with his efforts to extort $15 million from Nike, using a threat to reveal embarrassing information about Nike that Avenatti knew from representing a client that had a contract with Nike connected to NCAA Men’s College Basketball.

Avenatti went to trial. He denied he had committed any crimes right t…