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Federal investigators told ABC News that Avenatti was taken into custody approximately 15 minutes later.

He was ordered released on $300,000 bond Monday evening and was required to surrender his American and Italian passports. He did not enter a plea in court Monday.

Upon his release from custody, Avenatti said he was confident at when the evidence is known \"I will be fully exonerated and justice will be done.\"

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“I will be fully exonerated and justice will be done.” Attorney Michael Avenatti, who was arrested in New York City on Monday, stands accused of attempting to extort Nike for $20 million and faces additional charges of bank- and tax-fraud. Stormy Daniels’ former personal attorney was ordered released on $300,000 bond and required to surrender his American and Italian passports. He did not enter a plea.

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Avenatti will next appear in court on the New York charges on April 25 and in California on April 1. His travel will be restricted to the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Central District of California

In addition to the extortion charges in New York, prosecutors in California filed an affidavit over the weekend accusing Avenatti of stealing funds from a client to pay off his own expenses and \"defrauded a bank in Mississippi by submitting to the lender false tax returns in order to obtain three loans totaling $4.1 million.\"

\"[Avenatti] violated the principals of honesty and fairness,\" Hanna said Monday.

Avenatti, 48, gained prominence for representing Daniels in a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump. In December, a federal judge in California ordered Daniels to pay Trump just under $300,000 in legal fees after throwing out her defamation suit in October.

Earlier this year, Daniels announced that Avenatti no longer represented her. In a statement from Daniels and her current attorney, Clark Brewster, on Monday, the adult film star said she was \"saddened but not shocked by news reports that he has been criminally charged today.\"

\"I made the decision more than a month ago to terminate Michael's services after discovering that he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly and there will be more announcements to come,\" Daniels said. \"I ask that the media respect my decision to withhold further public comment regarding Mr. Avenatti at this time.\"

ABC News' Joshua Hoyos and Lauren Pearle contributed to this report.

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