*Okay, take Mexico, add China, multiply by 200 million dollars in methedrine money, shake wildly, and bottle in an American court.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432590806&Ye_Gon_Case_Spurs_Litigation_Over_Lawyers
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"New York solo practitioner David Zapp filed suit last November in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, stating Ye Gon breached his retainer agreement by refusing to pay Zapp $204,886 in attorney fees and costs for seven months of work. Ye Gon responded with a countersuit that accuses Zapp of malpractice and of wildly inflating his legal bills.
In the Ye Gon investigation, millions of dollars in assets were seized or frozen in the United States and Hong Kong, according to court records. Authorities in Mexico confiscated $207 million from Ye Gon's home but that money, according to Ye Gon's current lawyers, has since been dispersed. The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to dismiss the indictment of Ye Gon, and a judge is expected to toss the criminal case July 30.
Zapp, hired in April 2008 to represent Ye Gon, said he was one of several lawyers who scrambled to represent Ye Gon. "We all did it because we thought there was a payday at the end," Zapp said. "I just want what is owed me." (((I thought lawyers were supposed to be into, like, justice and stuff. Finding out the facts in the Ye Gon case, for instance – that would be quite a legal feat.)))
Zapp said the Justice Department agreed to release to him funds that were seized in the criminal investigation of Ye Gon. But before those funds were released to Zapp – he had been asking for more than $400,000 – Ye Gon fired him. In court papers, Ye Gon alleges Zapp was fired for making "unauthorized statements" to journalists in Mexico.
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Ye Gon claimed that Zapp told him the rates are reasonable because some lawyers in Washington charge $2,000 an hour. (...)
Then there's the matter involving Ning Ye, a Flushing, N.Y., solo practitioner, who represented Ye Gon last year. A federal grand jury in Washington indicted attorney Ye on two assault charges for allegedly skirmishing with two deputy U.S. marshals. The tiff happened at a motions hearing in the Ye Gon case in March 2008 in courtroom 24 of the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse.
According to prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said Ye was disrupting the hearing, and so the judge ordered Ye "escorted" from the courtroom. Ye, who was terminated as defense counsel in May 2008, is charged with pushing and resisting deputy U.S. marshals Richard Laskowski and Brian O'Neill in a courtroom vestibule.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Ye faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. (((That's pretty impressive, especially considering that his client may get off.)))
Ye's version, filed in a motion seeking dismissal of the charges, is that while being removed, his glasses fell off in the vestibule. As he bent down to pick them up, "he was greeted with storms of fist hits and kicks from his behind." Ye is representing himself in the criminal matter....
