A US judge on Tuesday rejected Michael Avenatti’s request to delay his upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan.<br />Scheduled for January 21st, 2020, the trial concerns whether the celebrity lawyer tried to extort Nike Inc.<br />District Judge Paul Gardeph decided with federal prosecutors and Avenatti’s lawyers not to disturb the trial schedule.<br />According to Reuters, the judge said he did not believe the prosecutors had violated rules by doing a last-minute 'document dump.
