We call that being a brown hat around these parts.
How do you get a brown hat, you ask?
Run out of brown pants ;)
Avenatti's starting to understand that [they] are in waaaaay over [their] heads, and is now signalling.
He may have been made to know some things during his trial discoveries.
Because defendants end up learning about evidence against them, whether it be under seal or not.
It being under seal means [they] can't talk about it either; In most cases [they] wouldn't want to anyway.