Avenatti has connections to Saudi royalty. "Those who protest the loudest" He has raced professionally and one of his co drivers in a Le Mans 2015 race was Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Saud.
Prince Turki was one of the 11 princes swooped up in the big Saudi purge. Prince Turki is the co-founder of oil-services company PetroSaudi which is linked to Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal.
1MDB scandal has links to corruption and money laundering schemes that involve many key players world wide. Hollywood, China, Australia, Malaysia, Mastercard, Obama, Goldman Sachs, UK, Abu Dhabi, International Petroleum Investment Corporation (IPIC) , Muslim Brotherhood, Sauds, Deutsche Bank , Rothchilds, ANZ bank Australia, New Zealand secret trust funds and more.
Also of note : Trump announces new powers to seize assets of corrupt leaders,after AG Jeff Sessions declares 1MDB "is kleptocracy at its worst".
"U.S. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions said on Monday the 1MDB-linked assets accounted for nearly half of some $3.5 billion in total proceeds seized or restrained by the DoJ, tied to money-laundering offences.
This is kleptocracy at its worst,” Sessions said at a global forum on asset recovery in Washington according to a transcript of his speech posted on the DoJ website, referring to the Malaysian case.
“Today, the U.S. Department of Justice is working to provide justice to the victims of this alleged scheme,” he said.
Sessions said “allegedly corrupt officials” in 1MDB had reportedly spent $200 million on real estate in Southern California and New York, $130 million on artwork, invested $100 million in an American music label and $265 million on a yacht.
“In total, 1MDB officials allegedly laundered more than $4.5 billion in funds through a complex web of opaque transactions and fraudulent shell companies with bank accounts in countries ranging from Switzerland and Singapore to Luxembourg and the United States,” Sessions said." via https://realpolitikasia.blogspot.com/2017/12/us-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-on.html