The Comic Genius of Jonathan Lee Riches©

A while back, I wrote up a brief blurb about Jonathan Lee Riches, who is currently suing Michael Vick for $63 billion. Here’s some links to his other work:

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-13/fineprint2.shtml - Riches names “The Magna Carta”, “Meals on Wheels”, and “Mt. Rushmore” as defendants.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-13/NC_FP_Lawsuit.pdf - the full 57-page PDF of the defendants’ list for the above mentioned suit.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0816071riches2.html - Riches sues Barry Bonds, claiming a conspiracy within Major League Baseball to fraudulently use his name, amongst other “crimes”.

It seems Mr. Riches has been making a huge game of the Federal Courts for a long time, filing suits in at least fifteen different federal jurisdictions to avoid being tagged with frivolous lawsuit charges. He is currently an inmate of Federal Correctional Institute, Gaithersburg, South Carolina on a 10-year sentence for identity and credit card fraud.

If I were one of the federal judges in whose courts Riches has filed his suits, I must admit that I’d be hard-pressed to not let his lawsuits proceed. Just getting a small percentage of the people named in these hilariously frivolous lawsuits in the same courtroom at the same time would be deeply, painfully funny. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard as I did when I read “Meals on Wheels” amongst his list of litigants.

Who sues Meals on Wheels? Apparently, an unknown, underappreciated comic genius. It’s a shame Mr. Riches turned to crime before somebody set him down with a pen and paper to write jokes. The world would be better for it.