RipoffRecount

This ATTORNEY IS A CROOK! I have proof!!! (Las Vegas and Henderson)First let me say, that this is not a bull story. I am meeting with a few news stations to report this story next week and to show them the e-mails, his letters that controdict himself and sworn statements to prove he is a crook!!!…….

I had retained attorney DONN IANUZI, ESQ. to defend my fiancee in a criminal matter in Dec. 08. I was told the fee was $5000 and there might be additional charges if we needed a special investigator or crime sceen analyst…(it was a car accident!) and I gave a deposti checkk for $1000.

I told him I could make payment arrangements or when I received a check from the insurance company, I would pay him in full. He said no problem, since I am the attorney, I will talk with the insurance company and when I get the check, I will take the balance owed and give you the remaining balance.

I asked it there was a fee for this and he said no. The insurance company would not fight anything as the money was the equity in the vehicle. (I had already talked to the insurance company the day before and they said the same thing!) So I agreed.

When he went to see my fiancee, I waited downstairs. He was going to have my fiancee sign the contract and give me a copy as I was his Power of attorney.

When he came down, he said he didnt have a copy for me and would get it to me in the next day or so. I later found out, my fiancee did sign 2 copies….why I didn’t get one is still a mystery…better yet, why he didnt leave one with my fiancee, his client is even better!!! That was in December of 08!

The day of sentencing in March, I asked about the money from the insurance company. He said he had not received the money yet, and when he did, he would send me the check. He also said there were ther matters to discuss with my fiancee. He said he would go see him the next day. He never shwed up….

I called the insurance company and they said the check was mailed to the attorney over a week ago from CA. (HE SAID HE DIDN’t HAVE A CHECK YET. )In the meantime, the insurance company sent him “THE ATTORNEY” a check for 12,480.00 the equity of my fiancee’s vehicle within 2 weeks of them picking up the vehicle from police evidence(Beginning of February) . We only owed him $4000.

He now claims that the CIVIL case to deal with the insurance company is $3000. Which we never signed an agreement tooooo…. (again, IF that were so, that is only $7000 we would owe him…. Where is the rest of the money…. To this date, we cannot get a copy of our contact, case file, the balance of the money and he REFUSES to go to an arbitration at the State Bar of NV which I filed a complaint.

I have over 50 e-mails that were sent to him asking if there was any fee over the $5000 he initally told me or my fiance about and why we could not get a copy of the contract.. He never mentioned a civil case, or any other fee. If the fee was $11,000 which he is now claiming, how come he NEVER stated that in any of his replies to my e-mails??? He would reply, give me your address to send the check or I will get one for you….I will fax one…I will mail one….WHICH NONE NEVER HAPPENED.

Never that the fee was $11,000 or that there was a civil case….anything! I also have letters from him to another attorney stating that there was money about $4500 (after the fake civil case) he had above the money we owed him!

Now he is claiming that the fee was $11,000 and that there was a civil case that ate up the rest of the money. Don’t you think that if he DID HAVE THIS is writing, he would provide a copy of it????

After sentencing, the attorney never answered a call from me, or went to see his client again! The end of April, my fiance petitioned the court to release him as attorney. The court agreed! Part of the agreement is that we were to get a copy of the COMPLETE file, since we had paid for it.

TO THIS DATE, we cannot get anything and what was an iinital $5000 case has now cost $13,480 and we still have no copy of the paperwork, a bill for the attorney fees or any record of what he did for the money!

Attorney’s protect attorneys…. even crokked ones! BEFORE YOU GIVE ANY MONEY…. GET A COPY OF THE AGREEMENT! That money was to go to my fiancees expences and for his children. We now have NO MONEY! If it were me that did this…taking someone’s money, FOR SURE I would be in Jail, but since it is an attorney….The court system protects the LAWYERS….not the innocent unless you have a TON of money!