Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee is the goal of two lawsuits filed in a Louisiana federal court docket accusing the lawyer and his regulation agency of pocketing settlement cash by means of unethical accounting practices.
Buzbee has dismissed the claims as “patently frivolous,” arguing they have been designed to hurt his status and undermine his agency’s position in representing alleged sexual assault victims within the ongoing civil litigation in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs. Based on Buzbee, the previous purchasers have been financially incentivized to file lawsuits in opposition to him, including that one former consumer was provided $10,000 to file go well with in opposition to Buzbee.
“We now have reported this conduct to the authorities,” Buzbee wrote in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon. “We anticipate disciplinary motion to be taken in opposition to the attorneys and people concerned. These investigators have been caught on tape. That is egregious and unlawful conduct.”
The 2 lawsuits have been filed within the U.S. District Court docket for the Jap District of Louisiana final week.
In a single case, a former ship captain named Adam Guidry alleges Buzbee took benefit of him by not explaining the related bills in his case. Guidry retained the Buzbee regulation agency in 2020 after he was injured on a dredging ship owned by Callan Marine. The case was finally settled, however in accordance with the lawsuit, Buzbee’s regulation agency retained many of the $350,000 settlement. In the long run, Guidry’s attorneys declare he acquired solely $5,123.
Within the different lawsuit, a ship deckhand named Matthew Ray Thompson claims Buzbee didn’t give him the cash he was entitled to by means of the Jones Act — which gives a treatment to seamen injured in the middle of their employment aboard a vessel because of the negligence of their employer, in accordance with the U.S. Division of Labor’s web site.
Buzbee’s regulation agency represented Thompson in a 2023 lawsuit in opposition to Strategic Towing Providers after he was injured in a barge collision within the Houston Ship Channel. Based on Thompson’s lawsuit in opposition to Buzbee, the regulation agency allegedly deposited his checks into the agency’s working account and issued funds to Thompson and his spouse by means of Venmo as high-interest loans.
Each circumstances declare the regulation agency of unethical accounting practices, however in accordance with Buzbee, he has “affidavits from each purchasers agreeing and approving the accounting of their circumstances.”
“And I now have affidavits and a recording demonstrating that these purchasers have been paid cash to file these frivolous circumstances,” he added.
This comes months after Buzbee introduced he would symbolize a whole lot of alleged sexual assault victims in authorized efforts in opposition to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s been federally indicted for alleged intercourse trafficking. Additionally named within the case is high-profile rapper and businessman Jay-Z, who’s accused of drugging and sexually abusing a minor in 2000.
