The U.S. Department of Justice provided Michael Avenatti on Monday with nearly 2,000 electronic files he says should have been given to him long ago, as an unusual discovery fight in the midst of trial that’s now in its sixth week.

According to Avenatti, the files contain billing records for clients from the Tabs3 software that weren’t included in his wire fraud indictment and weren’t considered by investigators or the financial expert hired by prosecutors to analyze what they say was a felonious yearslong scheme that misappropriated millions of dollars involving four settlements.

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