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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by PassingShot(m): 1:51pm On Sep 11, 2016
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Doghari:


It is better than giving the money to an iiterate Almajiris who will end up spending it on his presidential jets and buy Air tickets worth millions of naira for his children to london. Zahra and her siblings spend 10 million naira on each trip to london.

No matter the trillions repratriated it will never trickle down to a single poor nigerian, we all know this. The man deserves his wages. It was signed in black and white, and it is LEGAL. Go to hell with your patriotism to a murderous feudal and nepotist regime.
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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Doghari: 1:55pm On Sep 11, 2016
PassingShot:
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@passingshit, E pain you? I thought Abacha never stole according your allah on earth called Doghari?
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by PassingShot(m): 1:59pm On Sep 11, 2016
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Doghari:


@passingshit, E pain you? I thought Abacha never stole according your allah on earth called Doghari?
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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by NameCheckers: 2:06pm On Sep 11, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:
This guy is a bastard. did he say 40% or 4%? It is better for the money to idle away than to give in to the legal thief.


Money wey Abacha "suffer" thief Na this man wan take 40%. Ole
unintelligent comment.... Typical Barca
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by jumobi1(m): 2:07pm On Sep 11, 2016
40% is much to recover looted funds. It's too substantial. He is definitely sharing the money. The contract may say 40% but hopefully the judge finds it unconscionable.
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by adconline(m): 2:14pm On Sep 11, 2016
Where is the outrage against Abacha who died over 17 yrs ago and our stolen commonwealth is found in his possession $550m?
Where is the outrage that govt officials signed a 40:60% split contract with him?
Where is the outrage that the current president absolved Abacha of stealing?
But Nigerians are allergic to logical questions.. So FG didn't do its due diligence and we're here blaming the man.

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Boyooosa(m): 2:15pm On Sep 11, 2016
pyxon:


Typical Yoruba. Can't even be straight forward. Nobody deserves to be a Yoruba coward. its a curse
How do u mean my brother smiley
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by CHYMZZY(m): 2:15pm On Sep 11, 2016
ISpiksDaTroof:
Look at how the chest beating-40% seeking-sexual deviant described himself:

"...an international super-figure who has gained the admiration of friendly countries."

grin grin grin grin

Na novel you dey write? grin grin grin
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by CarroltonFarms: 2:18pm On Sep 11, 2016
https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/21202-md-godson-nnaka-643062.html

According to this site, dude's currently disbarred. FGN is to Incompetence as Incompetence is to Ineptitude!

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Doghari: 2:26pm On Sep 11, 2016
Victorvexz:
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I can feel how happy u are about this news, and my question to u is, what will u benefit from supporting every news as far as it is against Nigeria? U say u want ur country, but u refuse to leave other cities in Nigeria to ur landlocked south east to prove to us that u people are not playing anymore, that u re serious, until u that, we can take u serious and consider giving u freedom. U will never have ur country and still remain in Nigeria and still enjoying every right as other Nigerians. U will never eat ur cake and have. It does not happen. Leave Nigerian territory in ur millions to the south east, the we grant u freedom, until then, stop spitting all over this threa[/s]

Trash from a muslim pro-illiterate abookina.
You are against anything Igbo but you want Igbo to embrace your smelly rotten self.
When Igbos left in 1967 did your oil-thieving gworo-teethed fathers not coming down to kill them for one oilgeria. This time even if the East take their country, they will still be your landlord in their your backyard, you nylon-sh1t throwing buffoonudeens.
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Badgers14: 2:27pm On Sep 11, 2016
ISpiksDaTroof:


Send yourself to law school first. That was my profession for years.

You didn't sound like a lawyer.... Can't even make a logical argument.... angry did you attend your law school in Mozambique I am a lawyer myself(Uchicago)

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by KDCityForum(f): 2:31pm On Sep 11, 2016
I smell conspiracy theory btw the lawyer and the loot host to delay fund return 40% too much nah!
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by aurenflani: 2:33pm On Sep 11, 2016
Abeymills:
Nwane biko collect ya money biko

Penny he is not going to get. Sai Baba no go gree
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by kayo80(m): 2:36pm On Sep 11, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:
This guy is a bastard. did he say 40% or 4%? It is better for the money to idle away than to give in to the legal thief.


Money wey Abacha "suffer" thief Na this man wan take 40%. Ole

lol! I swear, this man is a bigger thief than Abacha.

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by adconline(m): 2:36pm On Sep 11, 2016
Badgers14:


I understand your frustration about this development but let me clear things up for you a little bit....

Mr.Nnaka fighting for a $220m paycheck is no where a selfish act, if he has a contract with the government for 40% ...oh well as bad as it might sound the contract is binding.. But mind you, he didn't just walk into the ministry and get that job grin whomever signed that contract on behalf of the government is also expecting some kick backs.... This is just like typical Nigerian contract, folks hear on the radio the governor signed N2.4bn road project... The contractor most times don't get all the money.. They might even pocket N1bn and give the contractor N1.4bn.

This scenario is like either Malami or Mr. Nnaka is back tracking on the quota they previously agreed to ..."aye' someone is getting greedy.. Mind you though that Mr.Nnaka is not a big shot lawyer in Maryland ( confirm this from anyone that lives there). He is just an attorney willing to play there a game... Moreover the case is an easy win because no one is dragging the money with Nigerian government..

Also, I don't know where you reside, U.S, Nigeria, UK...e.t.c

But in U.S personal injury lawyers are not charge and bail lawyers.. Actually almost every big law firms have that department because there is money to be made there..(they don't accept every case though and they are very selective). Also there are a whole lots of big shot law firms in the personal injury arena that handles only thoses cases.

Also in the U.S, a lawyer could charge 40% ( usually standard) or 35% whatever both parties agree on or they could charge you a flat fee say $5k or $10k for case... They could also charge you per hour. Some big law firms could charge you between $1,500 - $2,000 per hour.

I might have to send you an invoice for this long lecture grin grin cool
Good luck making sense in this age of Trumpism or Buharism!!

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by logicab: 2:42pm On Sep 11, 2016
CarroltonFarms:
https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/21202-md-godson-nnaka-643062.html

According to this site, dude's currently disbarred. FGN is to Incompetence as Incompetence is to Ineptitude!
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by InvertedHammer: 2:43pm On Sep 11, 2016
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Nigeria is notorious for not paying her bills. From attorneys' fees to black out in Nigeria Embassy, the story is the same.

This is a repeat of the Emeka Ugwuonye's saga. Emeka jacked $1.5m of IRS tax return due to Nigeria Embassy for nonpayment of fees to represent Nigeria/Abubakar in US courts. Late Amb. Adefuye fired Emeka and replaced him with Barr.Aluko(a fresh graduate/ inexperienced attorney son of Bolaji Aluko) a close family friend. The case lingered on and EFCC detained Emeka in Nigeria. The case resulted in dismissal of Waziri as the EFCC chairlady. Amb. Adefuye died thereafter while US court ruled that Emeka must refund the money.

Now we have Dr. Nnaka's case brewing. All these follow the same pattern--debt, litigation and Attorney General asking for percentage cut from attorney fees, refusal, more litigations and delays. Did they sign 40% lien fees with Dr.Nnaka? This will form the center point of the case. There must be a merit to his claims and that's why the US courts are entertaining the case all these years. Anyone that brings patriotism into this should have his/her head examined. The same fund will be looted as soon as it is wired into Nigeria anyway. Nigeria cannot wish her debt obligations away the same way she treats her salaried workers in Nigeria. FGN had paid foreign law firms more in percentage than what Dr. Nnaka's firm is demanding.

Nigeria is a basket case.

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Doghari: 2:44pm On Sep 11, 2016
What thr cantankerous pro-doghari bufoons here are saying is that, the man should forget the 40% agreement and the money he spent on the case, eat patriotism while dullard Abookina and his fellow feudals from the north marry more wives, buy privates presidential jets, send their children abroad, and jolly well with the Abacha's Oil loot which was even accrued from the man's region-Old Eastern region/Niger delta.

Many of these turban-tying surajudeen zombies are only angry that it is an Igbo lawyer that is getting paid, they would have no issue if it were one 'Nurudeen' or 'Lateef'.

See how they conveniently remained silent on the bribe Malami was asking for? Thank God it's happening in the US not the feudal justice system that dances to the tyrant dullards emotion.

These are the animals the good people of SESS are bedevilled with.
Godfosaken Morafuvktards! grin grin

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by brojoshua: 2:46pm On Sep 11, 2016
If post is true then I say, surely that is an expert and end time lawyer and looter who also wants to loot his own from the loot. And also mind Nigerians for many of us are looters both at home and abroad. Thank u
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by logicab: 2:48pm On Sep 11, 2016
CarroltonFarms:
https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/21202-md-godson-nnaka-643062.html

According to this site, dude's currently disbarred. FGN is to Incompetence as Incompetence is to Ineptitude!
I wonder if it matters whether or not he was disbarred before or after the agreement was signed. I mean, if a lawyer is disbarred, does it render all previous commitments useless? Lawyers should throw light on that.
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by InvertedHammer: 3:02pm On Sep 11, 2016
TonyeBarcanista:
This guy is a bastard. did he say 40% or 4%? It is better for the money to idle away than to give in to the legal thief.


Money wey Abacha "suffer" thief Na this man wan take 40%. Ole
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You have no idea.

If FGN signed a lien with his law firm for 40%, you should hold the officials of Nigeria responsible for ineptitude, incompetence and ignorance.
If there is a signed document, Nnaka will get the fund. Guess what? US court will gladly pay him because the IRS will get a big chunk as well from his $220m.
To avoid cases like this, hold your elected officials accountable because once the looted fund is wired out of Nigeria, it is up for grabs. Do you know how many Nigeria officials that died with untraceable looted funds stuck in foreign banks? Foreign banks love your criminal leaders.

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by johnsonpolice: 3:05pm On Sep 11, 2016
Osama10:
And somebody said Abacha never stole.
hmmm the lawyer and the looter they are the same thing now.looting is in nigerian blood its only god that will bring us out of this problem.
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by gamargu(m): 3:06pm On Sep 11, 2016
ugandans very greedy set of people. Never trust a ugandan with money heck even inside Nigeria they are always the most greedy set of people.
Very Very Useless all they know is money without any honor,shame or loyalty
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by bigtt76(f): 3:15pm On Sep 11, 2016
See person wen want 40% grin issssorite!


ISpiksDaTroof:
More on this weird man:



Candidate's bid knows no borders

City lawyer faces hurdles in Nigeria presidential run

August 21, 2006|By JULIE BYKOWICZ | JULIE BYKOWICZ,SUN REPORTER

With one exception, Nnaka's cases over the years have not attracted general public attention. He made a brief cameo in the public eye in 1999, when he represented G. Samson Ugorji, the first appraiser charged in the city's property flipping scandal.

Ugorji was convicted of fraudulently inflating appraisals for properties that were bought cheaply, renovated lightly and resold quickly for huge profits.

Over the years, Nnaka's legal skills have been questioned by some judges and attorneys. The Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission has no record of sanctions against Nnaka.




A federal district judge warned Nnaka of the "necessity of advanced and thorough case preparation" in a January 1999 written opinion in one of his cases.

In March 2005, a panel of Maryland appeals judges called Nnaka's legal arguments in one case "hopelessly intertwined and lacking in clarity."

Nnaka's legal experience extends beyond his role as a lawyer. He has been a defendant a dozen times and a plaintiff a dozen more in contract disputes and other civil cases - including three with his own employees.

In 2000, Clothilda Harvey alleged that she'd quit because Nnaka had asked her to falsify billable hours. Nnaka shot back in a counterclaim that Harvey was the one swindling clients.

When confronted with the dueling lawsuits, Baltimore Circuit Judge Clifton J. Gordy scribbled in his notes: "The whole mess should be dismissed."

The judge ruled in Harvey's favor, awarding her court costs.


Now Nnaka is accused of a far more serious matter. Court documents state that he propositioned a 16-year-old girl for sex inside his downtown law firm.

According to Baltimore police charging documents, Nnaka met the teenager on a Friday while dining at Uncle Lee's Szechuan Restaurant, near the law office. He gave her his business card.

The next evening, July 15, the documents state, the woman and two friends, also teenage girls, went to Nnaka's Redwood Street office to discuss hiring him.

Nnaka told the alleged victim he would discount his fee if she allowed him to touch her, the documents state. She consulted with her friends and agreed.

Then he took off his pants and offered her $50 for sex. She "began to freak out" and refused, but he kept pursuing her, the documents state.

Police said one of the friends managed to snap a few photos with a disposable camera before using a pair of scissors to fend off Nnaka. The girls left the office and flagged down a police officer.

They gave the camera to the police,
said Officer Troy Harris, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department.

Nnaka's attorney, Timothy M. Dixon, says his client was the victim.

Dixon says the teens tried to charge Nnaka for sex. When he refused, Dixon says, they snapped photos to extort money from him and then became violent - chasing him with a pair of scissors.

If Aluko of Nigerian Democratic Movement is any gauge, the charges won't help Nnaka's political career. "If you have judgments against you," he says, "that creates a moral burden."

julie.bykowicz@baltsun.com


http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-08-21/news/0608210070_1_nigeria-nnaka-sexual-solicitation/2

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by bigtt76(f): 3:18pm On Sep 11, 2016
You're very correct! Whoever signed that contract must be held for corrupt act!

Badgers14:


I understand your frustration about this development but let me clear things up for you a little bit....

Mr.Nnaka fighting for a $220m paycheck is no where a selfish act, if he has a contract with the government for 40% ...oh well as bad as it might sound the contract is binding.. But mind you, he didn't just walk into the ministry and get that job grin whomever signed that contract on behalf of the government is also expecting some kick backs.... This is just like typical Nigerian contract, folks hear on the radio the governor signed N2.4bn road project... The contractor most times don't get all the money.. They might even pocket N1bn and give the contractor N1.4bn.

This scenario is like either Malami or Mr. Nnaka is back tracking on the quota they previously agreed to ..."aye' someone is getting greedy.. Mind you though that Mr.Nnaka is not a big shot lawyer in Maryland ( confirm this from anyone that lives there). He is just an attorney willing to play there a game... Moreover the case is an easy win because no one is dragging the money with Nigerian government..

Also, I don't know where you reside, U.S, Nigeria, UK...e.t.c

But in U.S personal injury lawyers are not charge and bail lawyers.. Actually almost every big law firms have that department because there is money to be made there..(they don't accept every case though and they are very selective). Also there are a whole lots of big shot law firms in the personal injury arena that handles only thoses cases.

Also in the U.S, a lawyer could charge 40% ( usually standard) or 35% whatever both parties agree on or they could charge you a flat fee say $5k or $10k for case... They could also charge you per hour. Some big law firms could charge you between $1,500 - $2,000 per hour.

I might have to send you an invoice for this long lecture grin grin cool

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by Nobody: 3:21pm On Sep 11, 2016
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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by agabusta: 3:33pm On Sep 11, 2016
ISpiksDaTroof:


Our precedent is clear that disbarment is the appropriate sanction for Nnaka, considering the full extent of his misconduct. He was unresponsive to his clients, changed offices without telling them, failed to keep them informed about their matters, and instructed them to lie to the court about the nature of his representation. He has proven himself unfit to practice law and shall be disbarred.

IT IS SO ORDERED; RESPONDENT SHALL PAY ALL COSTS AS TAXED BY THE CLERK OF THIS COURT, INCLUDING COSTS OF ALL TRANSCRIPTS, PURSUANT TO MARYLAND RULE 16-761. JUDGMENT IS ENTERED IN FAVOR OF THE ATTORNEY GRIEV ANCE COMMISSION AGAINST NNAKA IN THE SUM OF THESE COSTS.

http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions/coa/2012/52a08ag.pdf


Wow! Thank u so much for this expose. So this guy is even operating illegally as a lawyer.

Whoever entered into any deal with this fraudulent lawyer needs to be flogged!

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by chidozieikeji2: 3:51pm On Sep 11, 2016
Confirm plz mr nnaka no greeoo collect ur 40 percent because if the money land here dey will share it immediately so am 100 percent in support of ur action bunch of thieves we are just waiting for 2019 to vote out this rubbish we are seeing presently

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by chidozieikeji2: 3:51pm On Sep 11, 2016
Confirm plz mr nnaka no greeoo collect ur 40 percent because if the money land here dey will share it immediately so am 100 percent in support of ur action bunch of thieves we are just waiting for 2019 to vote out this rubbish we are seeing presently GOVT BY PROPAGANDA

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by happney65: 3:56pm On Sep 11, 2016
omolola15 I thought you Hero said Abacha isnt corrupt? Odeee oshiiii.. grin

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Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by agabusta: 4:02pm On Sep 11, 2016
nyben4eva:


The Hausa man who looted our common wealth and stashed it in a foreign country and the Igbo man who is struggling to make us have it back after several years of depreciation,who is more greedy? Don't let tribaism and hatred for the Igbos hinder your sense of judgment.

Are you for real??

Someone disagreed with your position and that automatically has turned to "hatred of the Igbos".
Re: $550million Abacha Loot: Mr Nnaka, US-based Lawyer Insists On 40% As Legal Fees by chimoskyg(m): 4:04pm On Sep 11, 2016
My guy charge them, Zoo falling

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