Donald Trump.Avenatti was sentenced in July to 2 1/2 years in prison in a $25 million extortion case in New York.Federal prosecutors in Southern California have accused Avenatti of cheating five of his clients out of nearly $10 million by negotiating and collecting settlements on their behalf and funneling the payments to accounts he controlled while lying to them about what happened to the money.Avenatti, who is suspended from practicing law in California but was representing himself at trial,