Here's an interesting movie pitch.
Premise: Advertising in the Washington Post and New York Times by certain companies is a way of covering extortion scheme (ala Michael Avenatti) payoffs. Here's how it works. Avenatti comes up with a blackmail scheme against Nike. Does the frame job leg work. He pitches it to the Post and the Times. The Times bites. Vague un-sourced stories show up in the Times. Nike is still reluctant to pay up. Time subcontracts to a local New York television station to have 15 second passing mention of rumors about Nike on a late night news broadcast. Nike gets the message. Can't just send Avenatti 15 million dollars... the scheme is to have Nike hire an advertising company to start a "new" ad campaign (using an advertising firm Nike is instructed to use) and of course the Times is carrying full page ads as part of the finished campaign, and commercials get made (using a production company Nike is instructed to hire)...

Its a con type film... 'Rainman' Avenatti is getting his fee by "representing" the advertising company, The New York Times, the production company, et. al. Nike is forced to use these "made" companies. They all are getting a cut not only of the 15 million dollars that is the base payoff, but squeezing Nike by Nike being forced to use certain companies. And other than the initial frame smear... its all legal on the surface and on the books.

Here is the awesome twist part... all those big companies that own all the MSM... they are all competing with each other in all these shakedown schemes. And there are brokers who sell stock in the scheme, this is how the initial financing for more involved extortion schemes get raised (kinda aka David Mamet's 'The Spanish Prisoner').

He can now be sleepy joe’s running mate??

He's gonna run. Wouldn't surprise me at all. He don't care about that money if he can skip prison.

Who did he steal the bond $ from?

Is he on house arrest? Is he wearing an ankle monitor?