Here’s What Michael Avenatti Faces in the Jail I Once Shared With Jeffrey Epstein

>You didn't think we highlighted 'Epstein' for no reason did you?

Those who were once protected are no longer.

Timing is EVERYTHING.

Hunters become PREY.

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Thanks to my 10-month stay for tax fraud at the facility where Avenatti’s lawyer says that he’s huddled under three blankets in El Chapo’s old cell while he awaits his trial at MCC for allegedly trying to extort $20 million from Nike, a charge he’s vehemently denied, I have a pretty good idea about what Mr. Avenatti is going through. He was flown to the Manhattan prison last Friday from California, where he awaits trial on other charges, that he also vehemently denies. This all sounds par for the course. And I’m sure my ex-bunky, Paul Manafort, who blazed an eerily similar path at MCC, would concur.

High-profile prisoners—be they rich white-collar criminals, or infamous sex offenders—are generally placed in protective custody for their safety. Jeffrey Epstein was somehow first admitted to general population, where inmates immediately set to shaking him down. “Put money on my books and I won’t kick your ass,” was the general theme.

So he requested protective custody quickly and ended up in the special housing unit. The catch is that protective custody is intrusive, unpleasant and filled with the worst of the worst—the 10 percent of prisoners who simply will not follow the rules and have to get high, or use cellphones, or fight.

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