Already imprisoned lawyer and CNN fave Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four more years in prison for cheating adult film “star” Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties. He was also ordered to pay $148,750 in restitution and forfeit about $297,000.

The California lawyer, who was already serving two-and-a-half years for trying to extort $22.5 million from Nike, learned his fate in Manhattan federal court, where the judge called his behavior “craven and egregious” and accused him of giving in to “blind ambition.”

Prior to the sentence being announced, Avenatti, wearing his prison uniform after a judge denied his request to wear a suit, choked up several times as he said he had “disappointed scores of people and failed in a cataclysmic way.” Yes. Yes, you did, Michael.

Remember when CNN was pitching him as a presidential candidate?https://t.co/jdz7kBwAgV

— Bongino Report (@BonginoReport) June 2, 2022

Avenatti earned his widely-used moniker “creepy porn lawyer” because he was foolish enough to go head to head with Tucker Carlson in 2018, at the height of Avenatti’s fame. The two tangled, with Avenatti attempting to scorch Carlson with this one: ”How do you have a show and you’re this ignorant?“ Tucker meanwhile pretty much sliced and diced him, and amusingly called him a creepy porn lawyer, a label that has stuck.

In February, Avenatti was convicted of stealing $300,000 of the $800,000 advance that Daniels was paid for her tell-all book, “Full Disclosure,” in which she makes claims about her supposed affair with Donald Trump before he became president. (The fact that anyone would be willing to advance $800,000 to a pornography performer for talking about her sex life shows how deranged the anti-Trump media complex had become in those days.)

He represented himself in the trial, even surreally questioning his former client Stormy Daniels about her belief in the supernatural in an effort to discredit her. The facts weren’t on his side though. The New York Times reports how he spent her advance:

He spent them (the payments) on his law firm’s payroll, plane tickets, restaurants and a monthly lease of about $3,900 for a Ferrari, prosecutors said. Although Mr. Avenatti eventually sent Ms. Daniels about half the money he received, prosecutors said, she never got the rest.

$3,900 a month? Now I know why I don’t have a Ferrari.

Avenatti’s rise to fame began when he agreed to represent the aforementioned Stormy Daniels in her suit against Trump. However, he quickly capitalized on the notoriety and began appearing regularly on liberal cable news networks to taunt Trump and even toy with his own possible presidential run. It was a gross display by an obvious huckster, but the usual suspects in the media ate it up. He appeared over 108 times on CNN alone, where Brian Stelter will never get his reputation back (and doesn’t deserve to) for airing fawning moments like this one:

CNN's Brian Stelter last year on Michael Avenatti running for president: "And looking ahead to 2020, one reason I’m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.” pic.twitter.com/2Wn2bX17kx

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 22, 2019

He even tried and spectacularly failed to dunk on RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar:

For everyone blocked by @MichaelAvenatti, here's what I tweeted earlier. Apparently he forgot to block me before he went to jail. pic.twitter.com/vzRP8e3lm8

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) July 8, 2021

The story brings satisfaction in some ways: we get a rare chance to see an obvious liar get his comeuppance. We still haven’t gotten that satisfaction in so many other Trump-era scandals though—corrupt FBI agent Peter Strzock is still enjoying freedom and mouthing off, the 51 intelligence officers who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop faced no consequences, and lyin’ James Comey is probably negotiating another inflated book deal.

What the whole sordid episode shows is just how corrupt our media has become, and how far they and the Deep State were willing to go to bring down a president they didn’t like. Anyone with eyeballs knew right away that Avenatti was a charlatan, but our “journalists” tried to sell him as a hero.

They should be ashamed of themselves.