Michael Avenatti sentenced to four years for cheating Stormy Daniels

Lawyer must serve further two and a half years after completing two-and-a-half-year sentence in another fraud case

The lawyer Michael Avenatti was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for cheating his client Stormy Daniels, the adult film-maker and actor who catapulted him to fame, of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds.

The California lawyer, currently incarcerated, learned his fate in Manhattan federal court, where Judge Jesse M Furman said the sentence will mean Avenatti will spend another two and a half years in prison on top of the two and a half years he is already serving after another fraud conviction.