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Atlanta Attorney'Sued over Funding'of Phony Lil'Wayne Concerts
An Atlanta attorney is facing allegations that he missed red flags that should have prevented him from disbursing $275,000 from his escrow account to phony representatives of the rap star Lil Wayne and an apparently nonexistent lawyer. A single-count complaint for breach of fiduciary duty filed in August 2013 in Fulton County Superior Court said the payments by Venkatesh “Vinny” Kumar of the entertainment boutique Keniley Kumar Law Firm left an Ohio woman waiting nearly three years for the remainder of the $400,000 she intended to invest in two Lil Wayne concerts in late 2011. Blackwell v. Kumar, 2013 CV 234805.
Plaintiff's lawyer, Charlotte Perrell, said she and her client, Kimberly Blackwell, don't think Kumar was acting in bad faith when he allegedly mishandled the funds. They believe he and his clients ' the rap collective he represents and once served as general manager, The Black Mob Group, and its president, Ernest Foxx ' were themselves victims of fraudsters claiming to represent Lil Wayne, the New Orleans-born rapper whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
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