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Baseball Player You've Never Heard of Sues After Swindle

By Eric Lipman

Ah, the life of a mediocre major leaguer still hanging on to his not-so-glory days. Courthouse News reports this morning that Mike Lamb, journeyman infielder, is suing a "friend" for swindling him out of $253,000. According to the report, Lamb (pictured in the sad uniform of the Mets' AAA affiliate Buffalo Bisons) has filed suit in California state court against Louis Simon, for "breach of contract, conversion, conspiracy, fraud, aiding and abetting, defamation, and unjust enrichment." What happened? Well, Lamb says Simon, a friend since 2001, borrowed $253K from him in the fall of 2008, purportedly as "a short-term bridge loan" to move along the production of a film based on Simon's own recovery from a gambling addiction. Guess who failed to pay back the loan by September 2009 as promised. Not just Simon, but the alleged "guarantors" of the loan. To be fair, they had a good excuse: Lamb claims that Darling has refused to pony up the money he allegedly guaranteed, in one instance, with the "ludicrous assertion that his gold, held in a foreign territory, could not be flown out of the country because it made the plane too heavy to take off and they needed additional...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).