BREAKING: New York Post Covers Lawsuit Against "Deadbeat" NYC Councilmember Kamillah Hanks For $86K In Unpaid Bills, Fees
Luthmann Debunks Millionaire Kevin Barry Love's False Claim of Not Having Any Evidence
The New York Post is covering a lawsuit exposing “Deadbeat” Councilmember Kamillah Hanks’ failure to pay and report campaign expenditures for lawyers, political consultants, and staff.
Disgraced ‘trial by combat’ lawyer sues NYC councilwoman over unpaid $86K bill
Luthmann, who proposed trial by combat to resolve a legal dispute, has filed a lawsuit claiming he has not been paid for campaign work he did in 2017 for City Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks and Kevin Barry Love.
Luthmann claims he is owed over $86,000 in fees, including for creating fake Facebook pages against Hanks’ then-rival, Debi Rose, who won the election.
Hanks has not responded to the allegations, while Love denies any involvement in Luthmann’s crimes and calls the allegations a “vulgar lie.”
Luthmann responded saying, “Kevin Barry Love can call me all the names he wants, but what he can’t do is produce a receipt or a canceled check showing he paid my fees. Not once has he or Kamillah ever claimed that I was paid.”
Luthmann says this is a “paper case,” and it is “cut and dry” that Hanks and Love are “deadbeats.”
“My normal retainer was a minimum of $5,000. They cried poverty and asked me to take a down payment of $1,650 for the campaign, promising that they would pay me more later and in other ways. And this was just to bind petitions,” Luthmann said.
Luthmann knocked rival candidate Phil Marius off the ballot:
Marius is off the ballot, North Shore primary between Rose, Hanks
“Kamillah and Kevin, along with Political Consultant Scott Levenson and others, knew full well I was doing that on behalf of Kamillah Hanks and the Hanks campaign. She couldn’t afford to have the anti-Debi Rose vote split between two candidates. We had an agreement that I was going to be paid,” Luthmann said.
Luthmann produced emails that show it in his court filing:
Luthmann, detailing the work performed for Hanks and her campaign, said, “The $1,650 didn’t even cover the gas and tolls back and forth to the Board of Elections, opponent candidates’ petition copies, buff card copies, fees for the handwriting expert, the process servers, and the private investigators, my legal appearance at the Board of Election, the filing of an election law case in New York State Supreme Court, and all the miscellaneous cash I doled out to feed all the people working on the line-by-line on the Phil Marius petition and the use of my office, even letting a campaign worker sleep on the couch, so he didn’t have to travel back and forth to Brooklyn during crunch time.”
“I treated them like family. These deadbeats never paid me a nickel when I got their daughter Nadia to graduate from LaGuardia High School. They didn’t even pay for the Index Number in that case, which came out of my pocket. They came to me. I went to court. And I saved the day. I made it so that their daughter wasn’t humiliated and was able to walk with her classmates in the graduation ceremony. The Department of Education was barring her from participating because of an academic deficiency,” Luthmann said.
The case was news in 2017:
Teen gets judge's order to walk in HS graduation; suit alleges teacher 'maliciously' failed her
Luthmann says this is all part of Hanks and Love’s modus operandi.
“These people are millionaires. They have deep pockets and alligator arms. They didn’t have the money to pay me, and the next thing I knew, I saw pictures of them in Paris on Facebook. They promise you up and down, and then they lie. They promise you the world, and then they stiff you. I’m not alone, it’s the way they do business,” Luthmann said.
Luthmann says he can provide very specific details about witnesses to the work and the arrangements, including former elected officials who were present. “All these arrangements were done in Kevin’s basement in Stapelton and in the back parking lot of the campaign headquarters on Bay Street. In fact, Kevin Love and Scott Levenson never even paid for the pot we were smoking. They bogarted mine. There are plenty of witnesses, and I plan on deposing every one of them,” Luthmann said.
Luthmann laid down the gauntlet, but not in a “trial by combat” manner. This time he is much more genteel.
“I am publicly challenging Kamillah Hanks and Kevin Barry Love to produce a single receipt other than the canceled $1,650 check. It can’t be done because it never happened. If they paid me, they can show the canceled check or a receipt if they paid in cash. They can't because they didn't,” Luthmann said.
Luthmann’s papers say the lawsuit is for the benefit of his creditors, including “the United States and its taxpayers.”
Stay tuned. More to come.
NOVEMBER IS COMING
November is Coming. Who will survive?
Will Queen Crime have to pay after all? It looks like she can’t just write a check anymore.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Is there more? Of course, there is more.
Remember, Mr. Luthmann is now a LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. He is also a writer, commentator, satirist, investigative journalist, and a proud member of the National Writers Union.
There will be many more Enemies to receive their comeuppance. What new Enemies will show their faces and then be shown the Luthmann Inquisition followed by the legal and political Death Chamber? Which members of the Swamp should be worried? What other persons may become collateral damage in this story? And who exactly is on “THE LIST” Luthmann spent the past four years making?
Stay tuned—much more to come.
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