Let the judgments being. A judgment for $262,342 was awarded against local attorney and convict Vann Leonard by a Madison County Circuit Court on May 11, 2011. Anita Naik and Hitesh Desai filed suit against Mr. Leonard in Madison County Circuit Court on May 3, 2011. The plaintiffs state they placed $125,000 in Mr. Leonard's trust account in June 2008 and loaned him $148,150 in 2009. Mr. Desai also deposited another $89,192 in 2010 in his trust account. The monies were placed into his account for the purchase of properties and buildings as part of plaintiff's real estate transactions. A copy of the judgment is posted below.
Rankin County Chancery Judge Grant incarcerated Mr. Leonard on May 5, 2011 after finding him in contempt of court. Rankin County authorities confirmed in a phone call this morning Mr. Leonard is still in jail. The Chancellor imprisoned him after Mr. Leonard failed to return $111,925 to the estate of Bobbie Downing and provide an accounting of the estate. Earlier post. Judge Grant decreed Mr. Leonard will not be released from jail until he returns the money, submits an accounting of the estate, and pay $1,500 in attorney's fees to the heir who filed the contempt of court action. A review of the lawsuits filed against Mr. Leonard shows Mr. Leonard is accused of embezzling nearly $900,000.
5 comments:
Judgments don't taste very good even with salt and pepper on them. Hope there are assets for these folks to collect on.
If he was a Frazier he would have gotten away with it.
Vann represented us in different cases and proceedings. Although disappointed with his lack of follow up on the final case 4 years ago we never saw this coming. Some addiction beyond old fashion greed? I suspect the monies are long gone. Sad.
One of your figures says $362,342 and another says $262,342! Either way he deserved it.
Good luck to the defendants in collecting the money!! What kind of person will invest with Vann? If they were partners of some kind, then what will be next? Nothing surprises me now!!
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