EX CONVICT - WRITING: PURE COMIC GENIUS – over 3,000 lawsuits filed Jonathan Lee Riches, while serving a 10 year sentence in Federal prison for fraud and conspiracy, achieved the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records. I will tell you that his lawsuits are extremely creative and very funny, however, the courts and judges didn’t think so…ONLY IN AMERICA!! I will include one of his law suits next, as a comment. By the time Jonathan Lee Riches finished serving sentence last year, at age 35, he had gained a reputation as the most prolific jailhouse lawyer of all time. During his incarceration, Riches had filed some 3,000 briefs in virtually every district in the country. Among the more famous defendants of his lawsuits are: New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, President George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, Steve Jobs, Perez Hilton, Somali pirates, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Other defendants included: Bernard Madof, Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, various Buddhist Monks, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, Nordic gods, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:00:58 +0000