Michael Avenatti is being held in the same cell that housed Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, his lawyer says.
, the adult film actress who claimed she had an affair with President Donald Trump in 2006.In Monday’s letter, Srebnick said that Avenatti was jailed last week because of unspecified"financial transactions" that prompted prosecutors to"claim he was an 'economic danger.'"
He was transferred from California to New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on Friday, the federal jail where Guzmán was also heldSrebnick said that Avenatti was staying in the kingpin’s cell, though he offered no other details. "He has been having great difficulty functioning," Srebnick said."He has not been permitted to shave."
Srebnick added that he didn’t know why Avenatti’s communications had been restricted or why he had been placed under solitary confinement. Srebnick asked the judge to direct the department that oversees the jail — the federal Bureau of Prisons — to move Avenatti to the facility's general population.
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