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Lawyer Must Pay For Giving Funds To Lil Wayne Concert Scam

Atlanta attorney Venkatesh “Vinny” Kumar lost his defense of a lawsuit filed by an investor who accused him of handing over $200,000 of her money to con men the lawyer thought represented rapper Lil Wayne. Besides rejecting Kumar's defense on the merits, a Fulton County judge has declared the lawyer in default for failing to answer the complaint on time. According to the judge, that means the only issue left for the court is how much Kumar and his firm, Keniley Kumar, will have to pay in damages. Blackwell v. Kumar, 2013CV234805.

Kumar had asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney to set aside the default judgment, claiming that he had “a reasonable excuse under the law” for failing to answer the complaint within the allotted time. Kumar's attorney, Karl Braun of Nashville's Hall Booth Smith office, had argued in legal briefs that he had been under the impression that the investor, Kimberly Blackwell, and her lawyer were willing to “cooperate” in moving the case forward so that discovery could continue and the perpetrators of the “elaborate fraud” could be identified.

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