The reason Michael Avenatti extortion didn’t work was that NIKE has already been under investigation from the FEDS for over a year, so it didn’t make any sense for them to pay Avenatti because it wouldn’t have stopped that investigation.
The real question is what did NIKE do and how bad is it?
I guess we will find out soon now that the cat is out of the big.
Read NIKE’s full statement and the court docs explaining how Avenatti tried to extort.