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Jonathan Lee Riches is a convicted fraudster known for the many lawsuits he has filed in various United States district courts. Riches was incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, for wire fraud under the terms of a plea bargain. His release date was April 30, 2012. He was arrested for violating his federal probation in December 2012, when he left the Eastern District of the state of Pennsylvania without permission. He allegedly drove to Connecticut and impersonated the uncle of Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School incident. History Since January 8, 2006, he has filed over 2600 lawsuits in federal district courts across the country, some of which have received considerable press attention. Among the more famous defendants of his lawsuits are New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President of the United States George W. Bush, former Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno, Martha Stewart, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, entrepreneur Steve Jobs, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Somali pirates, and pop star Britney Spears. He also sued the late Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service on November 7, 2007, to prevent him from being deported to Pakistan and tortured upon his release from prison in March 2012. There is no known evidence of any attempt to deport Riches. On April 9, 2008, Riches filed a request for a temporary restraining order in a US District Court against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two, developer Rockstar Games, FCI Williamsburg, and Grand Theft Auto itself, claiming that the defendants "put me in prison." The inmate stated, "Defendants contributed to Plaintiff committing identity theft. Defendant's games show sex, drugs and violence which offends me." Riches continued, "Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross." Riches attempted to intervene as a plaintiff in the Madoff investment scandal, claiming that he "met Bernard Madoff on eharmony.com in 2001" and taught Madoff identity theft skills. In May 2009, Riches filed for an injunction against the Guinness Book of World Records, seeking to stop them from listing him as "the most litigious individual in history". Guinness spokeswoman Sara Wilcox told The Huffington Post that there was no such listing, and no plan to create one. "'Most litigious man' is not something Guinness World Records has ever monitored as a record category," she said. The action—like the vast majority of Riches's filings—was dismissed. Some of Riches's defendants are not even persons subject to suit. These include "Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party" and the "13 tribes of Israel." One lawsuit, in which George W. Bush was the first-named defendant, also includes another 783 defendants that cover 57 pages. They include Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, "Various Buddhist Monks," all survivors of the Holocaust, the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, Nordic gods, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island accident. A number of Riches's lawsuits have been dismissed as being "frivolous, malicious" or for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Willis Hunt, the U.S. District Court Judge who dismissed Riches's suit against Vick as "farcical," opined that his lawsuits were clearly self-promotional. As per 28 U.S. Code § 1915(g), he is barred from proceeding in forma pauperis. In July 2018, Riches was indicted by a federal grand jury in Arizona. He is charged with making false statements and other frauds after an attempt to file a lawsuit against Gabby Giffords while posing as Jared Lee Loughner. A collection of Riches's lawsuits was published on April Fools' Day of 2016. In November 2018, Riches self-published Nothing is Written in Stone: A Jonathan Lee Riches Companion, which contains a selection of his lawsuits as well as an autobiography. See also Vexatious litigation Frivolous litigation References. Discover the Jonathan Lee popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jonathan Lee books.
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The Dinosaur and the Cockroach
Jonathan LeeThis is the story of a group of primary school boys and bullies from another school. But read the next paragraph and you will see that there is another story hidden within this sto...
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The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Alexander Pope & Leo DamroschAlexander Pope (16881744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its en...
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Wonderworks
Angus FletcherThis “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante...
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America
Jonathan SantloferA provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and awardwinning authors with an introduction by ...
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Against Nature
Joris-Karl HuysmansThe hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here,...
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The Fifth Girl
Georgia FancettWhen DC Rawls decided to take some time off work for his mental health, he thought he would need just a few days. However, it's been months since that terrible night and Rawls stil...
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The Myth of the Lost Cause
Edward H. BonekemperHistory isn't always written by the winners...Twentyfirstcentury controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenthcentury Civil War. As...
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When Saturday Comes
When Saturday ComesThe best chants, the funniest nicknames, the greatest headlines and enough littleknown facts to keep the average football supporter entertained and entertaining for several seaso...
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A Brief History of the Martial Arts
Jonathan Clements'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements' RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial Hi...
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The Secret History
Procopius, Peter Sarris & G. WilliamsonA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the ...
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Ringmaster
Abraham Josephine RiesmanINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Riveting, essential reading.” Rick Perlstein, author of ReaganlandThe definitive biography of Vince McMahon, former WWE chairman and CEO, charts h...
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The Brown Reader
Judy Sternlight“To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” Jeffrey EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University’s...
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Blood and Silk
Michael VatikiotisWhy are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do de...
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In Sunlight or In Shadow
Lawrence BlockA truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, a newlycommissioned anthology of seventeen superblycrafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edwa...
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The Well of Prayers
Anne Boles LevyThe followup to The Temple of Doubt, by the author who Jonathan Maberry called “a powerful new voice in teen fantasy fiction. . . . Expect great things!”Hadara, now sixteen years o...
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The Collection of Protection
Jonny B MitchellOur hero, Kenny Whitley, now living in L.A. continues to find himself and come to terms with his new found powers as the savior of the world. He continues to train and meets with t...