Federal prosecutors oppose Michael Avenatti’s bail bid citing coronavirus threat

SANTA ANA — Federal prosecutors in Orange County have filed court papers objecting to a request that bail be set for convicted attorney Michael Avenatti, arguing there is nothing special about his situation in New York City, where a fellow jail inmate has been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Avenatti “offers no evidence that being inside of a Bureau of Prison facility is more dangerous — to him — than being outside one,” the prosecutors wrote. “But the danger to t