BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - When American multimillionaire Wilson C. Lucom died in 2006, he left most of his fortune to a new foundation dedicated to feeding Panama's poor children _ not to his politically-connected Panamanian widow, nor to her children.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Racketeering lawsuit $732 million - panama supreme court
This information taken from public records posted on www.lucompublicdocuments.com
COMPLAINT AND JURY TRIAL DEMAND
Plaintiffs, Richard S. Lehman, individually and in his capacity as the duly appointed Executor of the Domiciliary Estate of Wilson C. Lucom (“Lehman”); Richard S. Lehman, P.A., a duly organized Florida professional association (“Lehman, P.A.”), and Wilson C. Lucom Trust Fund Foundation (“Foundation”), by and through its Sole Trustee, Lucom World Peace, a Panamanian corporation, sue Defendants and allege as follows:
NATURE OF THE CASE
This is an action for damages in excess of Seven Hundred Thirty-Two Million Dollars ($732,000,000) arising from multiple violations by the Defendants of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO), 28 U.S.C. § 1961 et. seq., involving predicate acts of extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, theft, dealing in stolen property, and multiple violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Federal Travel Act, as more fully alleged below. These acts were committed by the Defendants in this District with the assistance of others, known and unknown, with the singular purpose of stealing for themselves the vast fortune of Wilson C. Lucom, deceased, who left that fortune through his Last Will and Testament, to his Foundation for the benefit of the poor and needy children of the Republic of Panama.
INTRODUCTION
This action involves a criminal conspiracy targeting the Plaintiffs and conducted by Defendants in Florida and abroad. This Complaint details how a group of U.S. and Panamanian individuals, lawyers, judges and prosecutors set about to fraudulently loot millions of dollars from a decedent’s estate, and destroy the estate’s Executor’s ability to carry out the decedent’s wishes, the primary directive being to use the estate’s millions to feed the poor children of Panama. The criminal conspiracy had one objective: thwart the only person who was appointed the Executor of the Estate of Wilson C. Lucom (the “Estate”), through acts of intimidation extortion, corruption, theft, money laundering, and bribery of foreign officials, so that the Defendants could steal the Estate assets for themselves. The Defendants’ criminal conspiracy could not succeed (even as it continues today) absent the combined acts of the Defendants in the United States, Panama and the British Virgin Islands.
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COMPLAINT AND JURY TRIAL DEMAND
Plaintiffs, Richard S. Lehman, individually and in his capacity as the duly appointed Executor of the Domiciliary Estate of Wilson C. Lucom (“Lehman”); Richard S. Lehman, P.A., a duly organized Florida professional association (“Lehman, P.A.”), and Wilson C. Lucom Trust Fund Foundation (“Foundation”), by and through its Sole Trustee, Lucom World Peace, a Panamanian corporation, sue Defendants and allege as follows:
NATURE OF THE CASE
This is an action for damages in excess of Seven Hundred Thirty-Two Million Dollars ($732,000,000) arising from multiple violations by the Defendants of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO), 28 U.S.C. § 1961 et. seq., involving predicate acts of extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, theft, dealing in stolen property, and multiple violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Federal Travel Act, as more fully alleged below. These acts were committed by the Defendants in this District with the assistance of others, known and unknown, with the singular purpose of stealing for themselves the vast fortune of Wilson C. Lucom, deceased, who left that fortune through his Last Will and Testament, to his Foundation for the benefit of the poor and needy children of the Republic of Panama.
INTRODUCTION
This action involves a criminal conspiracy targeting the Plaintiffs and conducted by Defendants in Florida and abroad. This Complaint details how a group of U.S. and Panamanian individuals, lawyers, judges and prosecutors set about to fraudulently loot millions of dollars from a decedent’s estate, and destroy the estate’s Executor’s ability to carry out the decedent’s wishes, the primary directive being to use the estate’s millions to feed the poor children of Panama. The criminal conspiracy had one objective: thwart the only person who was appointed the Executor of the Estate of Wilson C. Lucom (the “Estate”), through acts of intimidation extortion, corruption, theft, money laundering, and bribery of foreign officials, so that the Defendants could steal the Estate assets for themselves. The Defendants’ criminal conspiracy could not succeed (even as it continues today) absent the combined acts of the Defendants in the United States, Panama and the British Virgin Islands.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Fla. lawyer claims Panama court stealing millions from orphans
A half-decade ago, Richard Lehman was just a tax lawyer in South Florida who happened to have a very wealthy friend and client. Lehman's fishing buddy, Wilson Lucom, was a curmudgeonly millionaire, a onetime member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration who went on to found the conservative group Accuracy in Media. In his old age, Lucom relocated to Panama and began buying up prime oceanfront land-more than 7,000 acres by the time he died in 2006.
Lehman spent a lot of time in Panama with Lucom in his friend's waning months. He signed the will in which Lucom left his entire estate, then valued at more than $50 million, to a foundation dedicated to feeding Panama's impoverished children. In 2006, Panama's version of probate court named Lehman the sole executor of Lucom's estate, which included property in Florida and Texas as well as the land in Panama, on which Lucom had envisioned a shining model city.
That didn't sit well with Lucom's widow, a Panamanian aristocrat named Hilda Arias Lucom, nor with Hilda's children by her marriage to onetime Panama finance minister Gilberto Arias. Lucom's will specified a yearly allowance for Hilda, but cut out the Arias children.
Thus began a fantastical probate battle that has led the tax lawyer down paths he never imagined. According to an 84-page civil racketeering complaint he filed Friday in Miami federal district court, Lehman has witnessed rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Panamanian judiciary, has been accused of murdering Lucom and attempting to extort his onetime family, has been falsely arrested in Panama and placed on an Interpol alert list, and has been on the wrong end of a $2 million Florida state court judgment for misusing Lucom estate assets. The Arias family has argued that Lucom never spoke of wanting to help children. He never even liked children, according to Hilda's 2008 interview with The New York Times. The foundation, according to the Ariases, was Lehman's concoction. READ THIS FULL ARTICLE ONLINE
Lehman spent a lot of time in Panama with Lucom in his friend's waning months. He signed the will in which Lucom left his entire estate, then valued at more than $50 million, to a foundation dedicated to feeding Panama's impoverished children. In 2006, Panama's version of probate court named Lehman the sole executor of Lucom's estate, which included property in Florida and Texas as well as the land in Panama, on which Lucom had envisioned a shining model city.
That didn't sit well with Lucom's widow, a Panamanian aristocrat named Hilda Arias Lucom, nor with Hilda's children by her marriage to onetime Panama finance minister Gilberto Arias. Lucom's will specified a yearly allowance for Hilda, but cut out the Arias children.
Thus began a fantastical probate battle that has led the tax lawyer down paths he never imagined. According to an 84-page civil racketeering complaint he filed Friday in Miami federal district court, Lehman has witnessed rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Panamanian judiciary, has been accused of murdering Lucom and attempting to extort his onetime family, has been falsely arrested in Panama and placed on an Interpol alert list, and has been on the wrong end of a $2 million Florida state court judgment for misusing Lucom estate assets. The Arias family has argued that Lucom never spoke of wanting to help children. He never even liked children, according to Hilda's 2008 interview with The New York Times. The foundation, according to the Ariases, was Lehman's concoction. READ THIS FULL ARTICLE ONLINE
Thursday, August 18, 2011
A Legacy of Corruption Marches on: New Insight into Panama’s Infamous Lucom Case
A Legacy of Corruption Marches on: New Insight into Panama’s Infamous Lucom Case
- One year after COHA’s first publication, Richard Lehman continues to fight for the rights of the poor children of Panama
- The Supreme Court’s corrupt ruling triggers a District Court prosecutor to take a stand, resulting in a judicial stalemate
- Panama’s underhanded politics exponentially increase value of Hacienda Santa Monica, the most precious asset in the Lucom estate
Monday, July 18, 2011
Lucom Public Documents
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