The new date is Dec 5, 2020.
A federal judge sentenced Michael Avenatti to 14 years in prison on Monday for swindling clients' money and violating tax laws, a steep fall from grace for an attorney who became famous.
The United States District Court Southern District of New York has an attorney in attendance.
After Avenatti was convicted of trying to extort Nike and after he was found guilty of stealing Daniels' money, he was sentenced to prison.
Avenatti was ordered to pay $7 million to victims.
Avenatti pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud and tax offenses earlier this year, after prosecutors said he stole millions of dollars in settlement money from several of his clients.
Avenatti represented Daniels, who said she was paid to keep quiet about her affair with Trump. The nondisclosure agreement was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Daniels. The scandal made Avenatti a cable news regular and an outspoken Trump opponent, leading to speculation that Avenatti may run for president. After federal prosecutors in New York and Los Angeles hit him with three damning charges, Avenatti's public image crumbled. In the California case that led up to Monday's sentence, the Department of Justice said Avenatti used clients' money for his own expenses, lied to those clients about the status of their settlement payments and misled the IRS.
After years of legal wrangling, Avenatti was sentenced to 14 years in prison. When the judge asked Avenatti if he had any criminal law experience, he cited his experience in the Nike extortion trial as his reason for representing himself at the trial. Avenatti tried to get the case thrown out entirely after the judge declared a mistrial due to a dispute about evidence. The remaining 31 charges against Avenatti were dropped by the prosecutors.
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